Online Readings and Talks
Word Week San Francisco 2021 (Virtual) – Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 7:00 pm PST, Angel Island poetry book talk and reading.
Assoc. of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference (Virtual) – March 5, 2021, “My Tongue in the Mouth of My Friend”: Literary Translation in Creative Writing, translation panel sponsored by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).
Outreach for Readings and Talks
Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival, San Francisco – Saturday, October 12, 2019, “Words Around the World: Passport to the World” reading and panel on translation.
Poetry Flash Reading Series – East Bay – Sunday, September 22, 2019, “Poetry Behind Barrack Walls” a joint reading and conversation with poet Brian Komei Dempster. (Event flyer)
38th Annual Northern California Book Awards, San Francisco – Sunday, June 23, 2019, awards ceremony and reception with Northern California Book Reviewers Association.
Assoc. of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, Portland, OR – Thursday, March 28, 2019, Poetry International/Calypso Editions/Locked Horn Press Happy Hour Reading; Friday, March 29, 2019, Wild Geese Sorrow, book-signing, AWP Book Fair.
American University of Beirut – Beirut, Lebanon – March 13, 2019, Wild Geese Sorrow and Writ, book talk and reading.
Green Apple Books on the Park – Author event: February 12, 2019, Wild Geese Sorrow, book talk and reading.
UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library (with Palestinian-American Poet Deema Shehabi) – Author event: October 10, 2018, “Poets Imagine: A World Free from Borders, Detention and Otherness, from Angel Island to Palestine,” book talk and reading.
Angel Island Pilgrimage (with the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity) – Pilgrimage to the Angel Island Immigration Station: September 22, 2018, Wild Geese Sorrow, book talk and reading.
China Camp State Park – Author event: July 14, 2018, Wild Geese Sorrow, book talk and reading.
City Lore Gallery – New York book launch: June 28, 2018, Wild Geese Sorrow, book talk and reading.
Books Inc. Alameda – June 13, 2018, Wild Geese Sorrow, book talk and reading.
Book Passage Ferry Building – San Francisco book launch: May 16, 2018, Wild Geese Sorrow, book talk and reading.
San Leandro Public Library, Wherever There’s a Fight Exhibit and Community Read Event: October 13, 2016, “Angel Island Poetry at The Museum,” talk.
2015 LitCrawl San Francisco: October 17, 2015, “Hyphen Presents – Let’s Get Physical: Let Me Hear Your Body Talk,” reading.
Why There Are Words: June 11, 2015, “Why There Are Words Presents ‘Impulse’,” YouTube video.