Past
28 february 2026. collective marathon reading of theresa hak kyung cha’s dictee. hosted by small press traffic and the berkeley art museum and pacific film archive.
22 february 2026. Concrete poetry: A generative workshop. invited by the berkeley art museum and pacific film archive in conjunction with their special exhibit, theresa hak kyung cha: multiple offerings. (Oakland)
17 october 2025. book launch for lyn hejinian’s lola the interpreter, with violet spurlock, alan bernheimer, c. d. blanton, brandon brown, jane gregory, kit robinson, kathleen frumkin, trisha low, and eric falci. (oakland)
10 October 2025. Book launch for Julie Carr’s the garden, with julie carr, margaret ronda, and erica lewis. (berkeley)
19 september 2025. book launch for Even strange ghosts can be shared: the collected letters of jack spicer. collective reading co-presented by small press traffic and uc berkeley’s poetry colloquium.
19 july 2025. Reading with shiv kotecha and tenaya nasser-frederick, molasses books. (brooklyn)
4 April 2025. book launch for bianca rae messinger’s pleasureis amiracle, with Bianca rae messinger and inna krasnoper. (Oakland)
22 february 2025. Host and introducer for a collective reading of lyn hejinian’s my life. organized in collaboration with small press traffic. (berkeley)
4 may 2024. book launch for tilghman alexander goldsborough’s Object 7, with tilghman goldsborough, riley mac, and coco gordon-moore. (Woolsey reading series, berkeley)
26 March 2024. Classroom visit with kenyon college undergraduate poetry workshop, invited by cindy juyoung ok.
3 march 2024. book launch for violet spurlock’s in lieu of solutions, with violet spurlock, wendy lotterman, maxe crandall and maria silk. hosted by futurepoem and tritone reading series (Oakland)
7 november 2023. unghosted: a virtual reading room celebrating diasporic asian trans and non-binary writers, organized by ching-in chen, noah arhm choi, chrysanthemum tran, and yanyi. with andrea abi-karam, ashna ali, h felix chau bradley, celeste chan, chaelee dalton, river 瑩瑩 dandelion, eli tareq el bechelany-lynch, zeyn joukhader, koomah, leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha, e.jin mei o’malley, trish salah, willy wilkinson
10 October 2023. Craft talk and reading for Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of (dis)Embodied Poetics, fall 2023 symposium ((M)other Tongue: Diaspora, Translation, and poesis)
8 October 2023. sonic language workshop: sound as a generative process, with eliot d’silva. Hosted by Small Press Traffic.
2 March 2023. Reading for Just Like Honey, with camille roy and imogen xtian smith.
10 november 2022. Reading with Ariel Resnikoff for the poetry center (San Francisco State University)
26 June 2022. Reading with Bahaar Ahsan and Caren Beilin for the islet reading series.
1 april 2022. classroom visit with California college of the arts mfa students, invited by trisha low.
20 March 2022. Book launch for S*an D. Henry-smith’s Wild Peach, with S*an D. Henry-smith, imani elizabeth jackson, and stephon lawrence.
15 February 2022. reading with anna moschovakis and zahra Patterson for the Belladonna* Collaborative’s reading series.
4 February 2022. book launch for Transverse, with Lyn Hejinian, Maxe Crandall, S*an D. henry-Smith, and Syd Staiti.
15 May 2021. Book launch for Hearing, by Lyn hejinian and Leslie scalapino. With Simone White, Judith Goldman, Michael Cross, Renee Gladman, Myung Mi Kim, Eileen Myles, Eric Falci, Tom White, e. Tracy Grinnell, and Lyn Hejinian.
16 April 2021. Reading with Saretta morgan for Small press traffic’s reading series high dawn. introduced by tonya m. foster and music by kaori suzuki.
18 September 2020. reading with angie sijun lou and kiley mclaughlin for bookshop santa cruz. rsvp here.
14 September 2020. panel discussion for chlo & co. dance — Strength in Vulnerability: Acknowledging the mental and emotional dichotomies of the artist.
03 May 2020. Aster(ix) journal: The poetry issue launch.
10 September 2019. Reading with rachel blau duplessis. moe’s books. Berkeley, CA.
05 September 2019. lunch poems. university of california, berkeley; morrison library.
10 August 2019. Amerarcana 8 Release Reading with Bahaar Ahsan, Angel Dominguez, Evan Kennedy, Lauren Levin, and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta. Moe’s books. Berkeley, CA.
13 March 2019. Holloway Reading series with aditi machado. University of california, berkeley, maude fife room.
01 march 2019. Arts as Critique Conference, hosted by uc berkeley’s Arts Research Center. Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the humanities.
12 February 2019. Reading with Noah Ross and Trisha Low for Swell book release. Moe’s Books. Berkeley, CA.
25 January 2019. reading with claire Marie stancek and alexandra mattraw. east bay booksellers. oakland, CA.
19 January 2019. Woolsey heights reading series with Allison Cobb and Corina Copp. Berkeley, Ca.
13 December 2018. Reading with Rachel Galvin and Ashley Warren. E.m. wolfman general interest small bookstore. oakland, ca.
05 December 2018. Reading with Chiyuma elliott and jade cho. university of california, berkeley.
16 February 2018. Small Press Distribution Presents: 최 Lindsay, J. Gordon Faylor, and Holly Pester. Moe’s Books in Berkeley, CA.
19 January 2018. Way Bay Poetry Assembly. Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley, CA.
26 October 2017. speCt! Books’s chapbook release reading for Matrices and Id Est, with Lora Straub. Oakland, CA.
2 September 2017. Lone Glen Reading Series: Ecowriting Matters with Cecil S. Giscombe, Claire Marie Stancek, and Vernon Keeve III. Oakland, CA.
09 June 2017. Neighboring Systems Reading Series with Christy Davids. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
08 June 2017. Apogee Issue 9 Release Reading. Berl’s Poetry Shop. Brooklyn, New York.
05 May 2017. Studio One Reading Series, with Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel and Lorraine Lupo. Oakland, CA.
Forthcoming
28 August 2026. book launch for Valerie Hsiung’s The Pedestrian, with valerie hsiung and talia fox. (oakland)