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co-labs
— 2025 —
Waking Early
Voices Unbound, An Anthology of International Poetry, Fresh Words: An International Literary Magazine, Editor: Som
— 2024 —
Residency
Faberllull / Olot, Catalunya
Sant Jordi Festival USA
Two presentations: one with Anna Gual; one on Lola Anglada i Sarriera
A Proclamation for Peace
OSTI & Poet Laureate of Oregon
Translation into Esperanto & Catalan, the latter in collaboration with Jaume C. Pons Alorda, and recorded by Anna Gual, as well as curation of Icelandic and Latin versions by Kári Tulnius and Simona Mancini, respectively, of Kim Stafford’s A Proclamation for Peace, for book: A Proclamation for Peace, Translated for the World
Haibun for Mercy
Carlow University’s MFA 20th Anniversary Anthology
— 2023 —
Song
Poem, Astronaut, or Blues Singer (glint), has been transformed into song thanks to a co-lab with performer, Mel.lif.lu.ous, as a single on the album, “Spákonufell”:
Listen on
Apple Music
Spotify
Bandcamp
Residencies
Millay Arts(NY)
NES Artist Residency (Iceland)
Cité Internationale des Arts (France)
Sant Jordi Festival USA 2023
Translations and readings of works by Anna Gual, by Anna Gual and myself, as well as a short video on my work on the life & work of Cebrià Montoliu
— 2022 —
Pen + Brush Reading
World Poetry Day and Women’s History Month
ALTA (American Literary Translators Association)
Multi-lingual reading w Anna Gual + Others
— 2021 —
RAISING OUR VOICES series
sharing for activism for social justice and equality
Featured Reader, along with poets Michelle Stoner and Tuhin Das and Đỗ Nguyễn Mai, two City of Asylum writers-in-residence, in partnership with Carlow University’s MFA Program
Detroit Writing Room
Reading & Interview
ALTA: American Literary Translation Association Conference, Online
Poetry in Translation: Shared my translations of Catalan poet, Anna Gual
Open Streets Poetry Reading
Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn
BETWEEN US: WHITMAN ON WALLS
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn
Curated by Karin Coonrod & with her Compagnia de’ Colombari
Elizabeth Street Garden Summer Poetry Series
partnership with McNally Jackson, Nolita, Manhattan
Alas Verdes Translation
Work-in-Progress Translation Reading
Translations of Catalan poet Anna Gual’s work
@AlasTranslation
January 20
Milk and Cake Press Inaugural Authors’ Reading
Reading from glint & manuscript, SHE/D
Milk and Cake Press
February 6
Telluride Institute Talking Gourds Reading Series
Featured reader
March 2
— 2020 —
Sant Jordi NYC Book Festival
Organized by Mary Ann Newman
With funding through the Farragut Fund for Catalan Culture in the U.S.
–As Poet and translated poet: Horse Behavior & some of its translations, with commentary, by Translators Ae Hee Lee, Dean Thomas Ellis, Giorgi Svanidze & Reader of Francesc Parcerias’ translation of the poem: Laura Batllori
–As Translator: my translations of Anna Gual’s poems
–As Curator: including participation by Jaume C. Pons Alorda, Forrest Gander & Claudia Prado
COMPASS concerts series (i-v)
Founded by Louis Yungling, pianist and professor
–As Poet, Translator & Curator: also including participation by poets Marine Cornuet & Ae Hee Lee
Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA)
Firefly Farms
poetry residency
The Very Edge, a tri-lingual anthology, Flying Ketchup Press
Maximum Tilt Solstice Anthology
Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Pine Manor College 2020
— 2022, 2018 —
A Song for Women
A collaboration with Emma Zakine
Originally released 2018, International Women’s Day
Forthcoming 2021 as a single on Deux
Reach out to Emma @ emmazakine.com
— 2019-2016 —
Sweet Action Poetry Collective chapbooks:
Sweet Action Sampler, Buried Paths, My Mother Is A Tardigrade, Postcards to Real People I’ve Never Met
Sweet Action Poetry Collective
Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts
Residency
Poetry & Cebrià Montoliu biography research
Poetry reading and library & history museum presentations: Montoliu in Fairhope
Conclave: Justifying the Margins
Anthology, ed. Lara Bernhardt
— 2018 —
350.org Benefit
sponsored by SAPC with music, dance & readings at Old Stone House. All proceeds to 350.org, “an international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all.”
— 2017—
“There is always room for poetry”
Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn
Contributor to this SAPC show, curated by Marine Cornuet
— 2016 —
Standing Rock Benefit
Boston: SAPC chapbook: Buried Paths
donated to auction
Walt Whitman Birthplace
Favorite Poem Project. Sea Poppies, by H.D.