[events for ‘OF TYRANT’]
April 4 - Be Well Reading Series, 6pm EST . Register, here, for zoom link.A poetry month celebration with the poets Adrian Dallas Frandle, Alina Stefanescu,and Leah Umansky. Hosted by Nicole Tallman
April 6- HVWC Westchester Poetry Festival at The Masters School 1pm -4pm. More info, here. In person.
April 11 - HPH Reading Series (Zoom) 7:30PM EST/ 630 CST with Ashley Elizabeth Evans Leah Umansky, Joseph Lezza, Melissa Fite Johnson and Karen Rigby. Register, here. On Zoom.
April 13, Reading/Conversation with Claire North at Manchester Community Library in Manchester, VT. More info, here. 1:30PM
April 18 - Book Launch at Book Culture West 112th St) NYC with David Gutowski at 7pm, 2nd fl. Register at link above to RSVP. In Person
April 26 -7-9pm - National Poetry Month Edition of COUPLET- starring Anastasica Renee, Sean Singer, John Gallagher, Oliver de la Paz, Ocean Vuong and Marie Howe. [will be livestreamed on IG LIVE @couplet_Series] Fb link. Poets.org link, P&W link In person
April 29 - 730PM KGB Monday Night Reading Series with Omotara James and Celia Bland. In person.
May 6 - Cafe Muse (online) 7:15pm EST Register for Zoom.
May 14 - Leah Umansky and Melissa Fite Johnson Reading/Discussion with The Notebooks Collective at 7:30PM EST on zoom. Register, here. Online
June 2 - 130-330PM -A Persistence of Cormorants Reading Series with Leah Umansky, KC Trommer and Anton Yakovlev hosted by Gerald Wagoner 1:30-3:30pm, Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, Brooklyn. In person
June 11 - Bryant Park Reading Room. 6pm In person
June 28 - Reading at Brooklyn Poets
July 13 - Reading in Salem, MA TBD
previous 2024 readings
March 6 - River Writers Residency Reading at KGB Bar with Neal Dickerson, Jada Gordon, Josh Potter, Jeffrey McDaniel, Sally Wen Mao and Leah Umansky
AWP 2024
— “50th Anniversary of The Word Works’ - Thursday Feb, 8th, 5pm at Blip! Roasters
— Book signing 1230-230 at Word Works Booth 946
Friday, January 26, 7pm - ‘Winter Edition of COUPLET’ with Leslie Sainz, Timothy Donnelly, Maya C. Popa, Dante Di Stefano, Eugenia Leigh and Rowan Ricardo Phillips.
2023 Readings
Friday, October 6th -7:00pm - 9:00pm - the “Twelfth Anniversary of The COUPLET Reading Series” LIVE and IN-PERSON (ONLY) at The Red Room, starring, Wendy Jane Grossman, Virginia Konchan, JP Howard, Michael Dumanis, Airea D. Matthews, and Elisa Gonzalez More info, here.
Saturday, March 18th - 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm at Signature Theatre and Poets House on March 18 for a staging of Letters From Max, a ritual, written by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Kate Whoriskey, and based on the book by Sarah Ruhl & Max Ritvo. Poets House has curated readings between performances of the play in the theatre lobby at 5 pm and 7 pm, featuring poets Naa Akua, Julia Guez, and Leah Umansky reading their own work. More, info here. There are two sets !!
Friday, February 10th, 2023, 7-9PM EST - The (HYBRID) Winter Edition of COUPLET at Red Room (85 E 4th Street, NYC) starring K. Iver, Hari Alluri, Adam J. Gellings, Matthew E. Henry, Matt Hart and Shelly Wong. Eventbrite link for ZOOM attendance only. FB invite, here.
AWP 2023 ( SEATTLE) —Thursday, March, 9, 2023 - 6pm-9pm PST at A/NT Gallery (www.antgallery.org) “Come as You Are” an AWP OFFSITE Event produced by Dena Rash Guzman and Leah Umansky starring : Robert Lashley, Sarah Gilbert, Meg Day, Nathan McClain, Zeina Hashem Beck, Dena Rash Guzman + Leah Umansk
2022 readings
Saturday, October 1st, 2022, 5-7pm EST “The ELEVENTH anniversary edition of The COUPLET Reading Series at KGB BAR - Readers include: Virginia Konchan, Zeina Hashem Beck, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Nkosi Nkululeko, Megan Fernandes and Nathan McClain ! Register for Eventbrite for Zoom ONLY, here. Fb invite, here.
Tuesday, Aug 2nd - Zoom Reading 7:30pm *ESTTEACH: Writers who teach - the sequel! Hosted by Donna Voyrrer with Melissa Fite Johnson, Matthew E. Henry, Jessica Cuello and others. Register, here. Here is the facebook link.
Saturday, July 23rd - Owego, NY 3pm at Cloud Croft Studio in person reading with Faisal Mohyuddin. Streaming on FB live. More info, here. Sponsored by the Tioga Arts Council and The Poetry Foundation.
Wednesday, March 30th at 7pm Hosts of NYC Reading Series: A Reading! at KGB BAR with James Sherry, Leah Umansky, Jennifer Franklin, Melinda Wilson and Kyle Dacuyan. Hosted by Bill Lessard
AWP - Thursday, March 24th, 3:20PM - Panel: In This Together: Teacher-Poets Building Community Within & Beyond the Classroom (115AB, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level) with (Donna Vorreyer, Leah Umansky, Ashley M. Jones, Matthew E. Henry, Joan K. Glass)
Monday, March 14th at 7pm: Four Way Books Reading for Poet David Corcoran on Zoom. Link to register here.
February 19, 2022 - 7-9pm EST COUPLET -The Winter Edition KGB/Red Room (East Village NYC) HYBRID event. Readers include: Chen Chen, Jane Wong, Melissa Fite Johnson, Silvina López Medin, Ruben Quesada + Pádraig Ó Tuama
2021 Readings
september
September 11, 2021 at 7pm EST, “The TENTH Anniversary of the COUPLET Reading Series” starring Kaveh Akbar, Aria Aber, Devon Walker-Figueora, Kathleen Ossip, Maggie Smith and Diane Seuss. (NOTE: This event is HYBRID - on zoom and at Red Room, NYC)
September 18, 2021 at 2pm Riverside Poetry Festival (live) with Keynote readers: Nick Flynn, Alicia Ostriker, JP Howard, Sean Singer, Mervyn Taylor, Susana H. Case, Deborah Paredez, Rosebud Ben Oni, Chris Campanioni, Silvina Lopez Medin, Ellen Kombiyil, Leah Umansky, Philip F. Clark, Spencer Reece, Frances Richey, Owen Lewis, Anton Yakovlev, and emerging poets! Sponsored by 2021 NYFA & City Corps Grant. Free & open to the public. 100th & Riverside Park. IN PERSON EVENT
October
October 13th, 2021 a- 7:30PM Reading at Book Culture (West 112th Street)with Tara Skurtu, KC Trommer and Rosebud Ben-Oni. Link, here. Must register at Google form and must show proof of vaccination! IN PERSON EVENT
august
August 25th, 2021 - 7:30PM EST Wild and Precious Life Series presents an evening celebrating Taylor Swift As Books with featured readers Julie E. Bloemeke, Ösel Jessica Plante, Kimberly Reyes, Leah Umansky. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89090186505
July
July 25th : COUPLET READING SERIES at the Poetry Festival of New York. White Horse Tavern Stage at 5pm at Govenor’s Island. Readers include: Joanna Furhman, Elizabeth Metzger, Maya Phillips, Heidi Seaborn and Purvi Shah
May 20th 7pm, EST - TEACH: A Reading by Poets Who Teach with Jessica Cuello, Donna Vorreyer, and Faisal Mohyddin
June
June 15, 7-8pm - Green Mountains Review Reading. (Register, here). Readers will include the following contributing writers: Nin Andrews, Leah Umansky, January Gill-O'Neil, and Angela Woodward.
Previous
February
February 7, 2021 at 7pm The Winter Edition of COUPLET starring Jenny Molberg, Benjamin Garcia, Donna Vorreyer, Elizabeth A.I. Powell, Shane McCrae, and Patricia Smith
March
March 18th - Reading for Tioga Arts Council Gallery Event with Nin Andrews, Dante Di Stefano, Nicole Santalucia and Faisal Mohyuddin and more.
April - national poetry month !
April 18th - 5pm - Mercy Street Reading Series, 7pm on Zoom. more info coming soon!
April 24th 7pm- COUPLET Reading Series - National Poetry Month Edition. Our six featured readers are: 1. Elizabeth Lindsay Rogers, 2. Laura Cronk, 3. Martha Collins, 4.Aimee Nezhukumatathil, 5. Nathan McClain, 6. Rebecca Morgan Frank
MAy
2020
December
Thursday, December 10th - Reading for Ep;phany Magazine’s End of the Year Event on Zoom. FB link, here. Info at McNally Jackson, here. Be sure to register.
september
September 12th - 6-7:30PM - The Ninth-Anniversary of The COUPLET Reading Series, live on zoom. Readers include: Hala Alyan, Jill Bialosky, Didi Jackson, Major Jackson, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado and Meghan Privitello. For more info on registration for the zoom event, go here. Thank you to the NYTimes for featuring us in the “At Home” Calendar!
August
August 6th - 6:30PM Virtual Reading at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, MA with poets Omotara James and Rebecca Olander. More info, here, and facebook invite here.
January
January 13th - 7pm Reading in the launch of the new issue of Epiphany Magazine at Books are Magic, Brooklyn, NY
February
February 8 - The Winter Edition of COUPLET READING SERIES. Red Room (3rd fl), at 5pm, starring: Deborah Landau, Jenny Xie, Kristina Marie Darling, Jen Sperry Steinnorth, Joshua Bennett and Julia Guez ! FB link: p&w link
April
Saturday, April 4th - 530pm “The National Poetry Month Edition of COUPLET - Readers TBA - Red Room, above KGB Bar, E village. NYC with Shane McCrae, Maya Phillips, Katie Farris, Barbara Louise Ungar, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers and Ilya Kaminsky More info, here.
Sunday, April 5th - 4pm - Reading with Ilya Kaminsky, Katie Farris, and Joseph O. Legaspi - Book Culture W 112th street More info, here.
previous readings
October 2019
Oct 21 - Monday KGB Reading Series - with Matt Hart ! KGB BAR,( 2nd fl) NYC
November 2019
Friday, Nov 22 - 6pm RHINO! Reads - Chicago, IL -
Saturday, Nov 23 - 7pm-9pm, Reading at Volumes Bookstore Chicago, IL with Sam Herschel Wein and Jose-Luis Moctezuma (FB invite)
Sunday, Nov 24 2pm at The Book Stall, Winnetka, Illinois Reading with Faisal Mohyuddin, and Donna Vorreyer. (Fb invite)
2020
February 2019
February 8, Friday 6-8pm - COUPLET - Winter Edition at Red Room (third floor - above kgb bar) starring: 1. Catherine Barnett, Monica Ferrell, Jennifer Franklin, Donika Kelly, Sophie Klahr & Tyler Mills
March - AWP 2019
Monday, March 4, 2019 - 1pm - Reading at Bookstore 1 Sarasota , Sarasota FL
Thursday, March 28, 2019 9:00am- 10:15am Portland Ballroom 256, Oregon Convention Center, Level 2 “How to be your own Agent” Panel with Natalie Shapero, Christopher Soto, Vi Khi Nao and Adam Clay
Thursday, March 28, 2019 - 7pm - - Reading at Le Salon Rouge Presents AWP Best Selling Show #awp19
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 7-9pm “Politics & Pints” hosted by Leah Umansky & Dena Rash Guzman. Rose City Book Pub, 1329 NE Fremont St, Portland, OR, 97212 East Coast poet Leah Umansky and West Coast poet Dena Rash Guzman cohost an evening of political poetry from both coasts for "Politics & Pints" at Rose City Book Pub. Readers include Chiwan Choi, Meg Day, Jen Fitzgerald, Dena Rash Guzman, Robert Lashley, Faisal Mohyuddin, and Leah Umansky.
April 2019
April 12th - 6pm-8pm at Red Room - The National Poetry Month Edition of COUPLET starring: Meghan O’Rourke, Adam Gianelli, Erika Meitner, Brenda Shaugnessey, Raena Shirali, & Sarah Gambito
Non-facebook link, here.
May 2019
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 — at 8pm - Reading for Berfois & Queen Mobs Anthologies at Stella & Fly at 1705 First Avenue, NYC
May 18, 2019 - Sleepy Hollow Literary Festival - Sleepy Hollow, NY My reading is between 330-530 . Facebook invite, here.
July 2019
Monday, July 15 - Book Culture at 112th street at 7pm with Kendra DeColo, Wendy Chin-Tanner and Jose Olivarez . FB event, here.
Sunday, July 28, Governors Island/ NYC - 4pm COUPLET at The Poetry Festival of NYC starring: Eileen G’Sell, KC Trommer, H.N Holder and Kendra DeColo FB Invite, here.
August 2019
Aug 8 - 7-9pm Columbus, OH Paging Columbus Series - with Dana Lynn Harper, Robin Beth Schaer, and Ira Sukrungruang.
Aug 9 - 7pm Bexley, OH - Gramercy Books with Ruth Awad and Darren C. Demarree
Aug 20 - 8pm at “Back to the Garden Reading Series,” in Park Slope Brooklyn, with Niel Rosenthalis, Thalia Bloch, JJ Starr and Nathan McClain
September 2019
Sept 20th - 9:15PM- 10:45PM The 8th Anniversary Edition of the COUPLET Reading Series. Readers include: Dante Di Stefano, Faisal Mohyuddin, Regan Good, Rosebud Ben-Oni and Jericho Brown.
2018
March 8-10 -AWP 2018 - tampa, Florida
Friday, March 9th at 11am -Author Signing with Eyewear Publishing for -THE BARBAROUS CENTURY. Booth 337
Friday, March 9th from 4pm - 6pm: a joint reading of Eyewear Publishing, Blue River/Creighton University and Gold Wake Press for an AWP offsite reading on the rooftop deck at Fly Bar & Restaurant. More info, here.
Saturday March 10th Panel: Women Who Write the Future - 12:00PM Room 11, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor . S186. Women Write the Future. (Rebecca Gayle Howell, Leah Umansky, Sheree Renée Thomas) In a world of shifting alliances, power upheavals, and new challenges both environmental, socio-political, and technological, the science fiction, fantasy, and speculative genres offer artists a new imaginative lens to see and right/write the world. Women writers have added their voices and visions to this field, and are publishing now more than ever. Join four award-winning women writers reading and discussing works that re-imagine the past, examine our present, and contemplate new futures.
Sunday, March 18 - at 3pm at Bowery Poetry Club Reading for NYQ Books : Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump's America .The poets anthologized in this book bear witness to, rage against, and defy the misogyny, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and authoritarian impulses that have always surrounded us, but that are incarnated in the 45th president.
portland, oregon readings for THe Barbarous century
Friday, March 23 - Portland, OR 7pm - at Jade Lounge - Reading as part of "An Occasional Reading Series" - hosted/curated by Dena Rash Guzman
Sunday March 26 - Portland, OR 6pm - Powells Books - Reading as part of Smallpressapalooza 2018!
April
April 12 - at 7pm at Books are Magic - Brooklyn launch of THE BARBAROUS CENTURY. In conversation with Sarah Gerard.
April 17- 7pm Manhattan book launch of THE BARBAROUS CENTURY at the West 112th street Book Culture and Q& A with David Gutowski.
April 23 - 6-8 PM Spring Poetry Reading with Todd Portnowitz, Virginia Konchan, Klara DuPlessis, and Rosebud Ben-Oni, La Sala. Queens, NY
May 2018
May 5 - 11:00 am Salem, MA: In Transit: A Poetry Reading with Brionne Janae, Wesley Rothman, Leah Umansky, and Jenny Xie Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Hawthorne Hotel, Library Room 18 Washington Square W.
May 11- 7pm Pete's Big Salmon Series at Pete's Candy Store, Brooklyn NY with Elizabeth Metzger, Carly Joy Miller and Dorothea Lasky
May 29 - 7pm Bryant Park at NYPL Reading with Christopher Salerno, Michael Hoerman, Janlori Goldman, Leah Umansky
June 2018-
June 18 - 630-930pm Reading with Nicole Dennis-Benn, Ananda Lima, Lisa Romeo, and Leah Umansky at the Halfway There Reading Series at the Red Eye Cafe Montclair, NJ
June 28 - 7-9pm Reading with Joy Ladin at Bluestockings in NYC on the Lower East Side. Bookstore info, here.
july 2018 - Ireland & england
ireland
July 14 - 11:30am - Bantry, Ireland - West Cork Literary Festival . Reading at Bantry Bookshop
July 16- 930pm - Cork, Ireland - O'Bheal
July 19 - 7pm - Belfast, Ireland Waterstones with Colin Dardis. Facebook invite here.
July 22- 3pm -Dublin, Ireland - Reading with Tara Skurtu and Julie Morrissy at Books Upstairs. Facebook Invite, here.
england
July 23 - 7-pm London at Poetry Cafe- In Town Tonight at The Poetry Society with Ruth Padel
July 26 - 7pm - Peckham, London Vanguard Reading at The Pelican.
September 2018
Sept 14th - 6-8pm - The 7th Anniversary of COUPLET - at The Red Room, above KGB Bar, E. Village. Readers include: Cameron Lawrence, Tina Cane, Devon Walker-Figueroa, Donna Masini, Sandra Simonds and Terrance Hayes. [Note the new time and location)
Sept 27 - 7pm - Reading at McNally Jackson Books in Soho with Ben Purkert, Nathan McClain and Elizabeth Dufford.
October 2018
October 2 - The New School with Moira Egan
October 6 - Sarah Lawrence College Alumni Writing Festival (OPEN TO ALUM ONLY)
October 12- Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 7pm - Reading for Pete's Big Salmon at Pete's Candy Store Facebook invite, here.
November 2018
November 7 - 12:30pm SUNY Adirondack Reading in the Visual Arts Gallery in Dearlove Hall
November 16 - 7:00PM Literati Reading Series - Binghamton, NY. Facebook link, here.
December 2018
December 2 - 6pm- Why There are Words at Bowery Poetry Club
January 2018
January 27th - COUPLET: the winter edition. 7-10pm at The Delancey. Our poets are: Meghan Privitello, Camille Rankine, Ocean Vuong, Ailish Hopper, Rachel Eliza Griffiths & Terese Svoboda
2017
AWP17:
Thursday, February 9th - 9:00-10:15am R114 - Supreme Court Marriot Marquis, Meeting Level 4 - "It's the End of the World and She Knows It: apocalypse poetry by women:" with Meghan Privitello, Dena Rash Guzman, Maggie Smith and Leah Umansky. Facebook http://www.facebook.com/events/662888447223238/
Friday, February 10th - Book signing with Jen Fitzgerald at The Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review at Booth #389 from 3-4PM
March 2017
March 23 - 7pm - Red Room KGB Bar - Reading for Resistance.
March 26 - 3pm - Bowery Poetry Club - Launch for the Golden Shovel Anthology Launch (read more about the anthology,
April 2017
April 21st - 7-10PM at The Delancey. The National Poetry Month Edition of COUPLET starring: Omotara James, Roberto Montes, Nin Andrews, Jan Beatty, Keegan Lester
& Jen Levitt
june 2017
June 3 - Reading for Thrush Poetry Journal Red Room at KGB BAR 21+ at 7pm.
Hosted by Poet & Editor, Helen Vitoria. Featuring readings by:Oliver Baez Bendorf, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Joseph Fasano,Megan Fernandes, Michael Homolka, Nomi Stone &Leah Umansky
July 2017
July 29/30 - COUPLET at The Poetry Festival of NY at Govenors Island. Readers include: Featuring Amy Strauss Friedman, Marie La Vina, Katie Longofono, Carly Joy Miller
October
October 6 - Reading at Book Culture at W112th Street with Chrissy Williamsand Nikay Paredes at 7pm
October 8-9 - Reading at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY
7pm-10pm October 14th - 6th Anniversary of COUPLET featuring: Liz Axelrod, Miranda Field, Sam Sax, Erica Wright, and Jasmine Dreame Wagner, and Lynn Melnick. More info, here.
2016 readings
October
October 20 - 7:30 pm - Reading for Guerilla Lit at Dixon Place with: Courtney Elizabeth Mauk & Julia Phillips
November
November 4th - 7pm Book Culture ( at W 112th street) Reading with Anthony Cappo, and Joanna C. Valente.
November 13 - 'm reading LIVE for Transatlantic Poetry with Irish Poet, Mary O'Malley. John Goselee hosts. (8pm UK time)
November 20th - Sunday, 2-4 pm Cedarmere, Roslyn Harbor, Long Island NY
December
tba
2017 readings
january
tba
February
Feb 8-11 - AWP - Washington D.C
On-site Panel/ Reading - "It’s the End of the World As She Knows It: Apocalypse Poetry by Women: with Meghan Privitello, Dena Rash Guzman and Maggie Smith." (Time/Day to be announced)
March
TBA - Reading with Jen Fitzgerald -- Baltimore, MD
2016
[u.k readings 2016 ] for straight away the emptied world))
Sunday, March 20th -- Reading with Susannah Hart at the Torriano Meeting House. Kentish Town, London, England -99 Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town, London NW5 2RX (Directions: From Kentish Town tube station walk up Leighton Road
and turn left onto Torriano Avenue) 7-9pm
Monday, March 21st at 7:30pm Reading with Penny Boxall at Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford, England. (http://www.albionbeatnik.co.uk/shop-events/)
Wednesday, March 23 " In Town Tonight" reading at The Poetry Society with Amy Key, Jane Yeh, and Alex Macdonald in London, UK
* i won't be at awp, but say hi to kattywompus press at booth #1419 *
april
April 10th, 8pm, Dead Rabbits Series - Reading with Mark De Silva and Renee Watson DTUT Cafe Upper East Side, NY
April 14-17 split this rock festival - Washington DC
The Golden Shovel: Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks
Reginald Dwayne Betts, E. Ethelbert Miller, Wesley Rothman, Ravi Shankar, Leah Umansky, Jeanann Verlee
Beacon Hotel [Map]
April 21 - Pete's Candy Shop Brooklyn, NY
April 30 - COUPLET - National Poetry Month Edition with: Emilia Philips, Clark Moore, Claudia Cortese, Melissa Studdard, Sharon Dolin and Karen Hildebrand
may
Thursday, May 12th - Reading with Sarah Gerard and John Reed at Printed Matter.
Friday, May 13th --7pm with Heather Aimee O'Neill and Susan Bruce at Bookcourt in Brooklyn, NY.
july
[new mexico tour 2016]
for straight away the emptied world --
July 19 - 6pm Poetry reading with Bill Nevins and Jenn Givhan at BookWorks. Albuquerque, NM
July 23 - 2pm - Poetry reading with Poets Aaron Rudolph and Lauren Fath at LVPD (Meeting Room, Left side entrance), 318 Moreno Street, Las Vegas, NM.
July 24 - 5pm - Teatro Paraguas, with Christopher J Johnson and Dana Levin Santa Fe, NM. (Facebook invite)
July 31 - 2pm COUPLET at the Poetry Festival of New York. More info,
september 2016
Sept 10th - 5-Year Anniversary of the COUPLET Reading Series starring: Monica Youn, Jen Fitzgerald, Tommy Pico, Dorothea Lasky and Jeanann Verlee and John Reed at 7pm. The Delancey, NYC.
Sept 11 - 11:15 AM " Life After the MFA" with Gibson Fay LeBlanc, Ricardo Maldonado, and Robin Beth Schaer Slice Literary Festival at St Francis College. Brooklyn, NY
february
Feb 25 at Mercer Street Books and Records Series with Amanda K Davidson, Rob Stephenson, John Reed & Leah Umansky at 7:30PM
january
Jan 23rd at 7pm at The Delancey is the return of COUPLET: starring: Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Claudia Cortese, Sharon Mesmer, Kristina Bicher, Clark Moore & Michael Morse
December
December 14th: Kattywompus Press at The Cornelia Street Cafe at 6pm with Cornelius Eady & Rough Magic, Sammy Greenspan,Ann Cefola, Margo Taft Stever, Robin Messing, Susana H. Case, and Leah Umansky
November
November 4th: Reading at Berl's Poetry Store Kathleen Ossip + Joshua Mehigan + Leah Umansky + Paige Lewis + Kaveh Akbar at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop in Brooklyn, NY at 830PM
November 17th: Reading for POSIT Journal as part of Boog City: Night of Small Presses at Sidewalk Cafe on Avenue A, NYC.Tues. at 6:00 p.m.
october
October 3rd: The Four Year Anniversary of COUPLET at 7pm on the lower level of The Delancey, on the LES of NYC, starring: Robin Beth Schaer, Susan Bruce, Wesley Rothman, Barbara Ungar and Sandra Beasley. RSVP, here.
October 24th, Craft Talk/ Poetry Reading at Space on Ryder Farm http://spaceonryderfarm.org/ (info forthcoming...)
October 30th : Reading with Alice Kaltman and fellow writers Susan Bruce, and Diana Gallagher at Mandala Yoga in Amagansett, NY at 7:30PM RSVP & find more info, here.
August
August 20th, at 7pm, reading at Unchartered Books in Chicago, IL, with Danielle Susi, Kathleen Rooney, Holly Amos and Anthony Madrid. Facebook Invitation, here.
July
Tuesday, July 14th at Barnard College, from 12-2pm at the Altschul Atrium, I will be a part of a small group of women writers for the 2nd Annual Women Writing and Intersectionality Conference.
Saturday, July 25th at 1:30pm on the Algonquin Stage at Govenors Island, NYC, COUPLET will perform as part of the 5th Annual Poetry Festival of NY starring: Joanna Furhman, Abigail Welhouse, Amanda Smeltz, Barbara Louise Ungar, and Cynthia Cruz.
PREVIOUS READINGS:
readings for don dreams and i dream [2014]
april (including awp events)
April 7 -6:30pm at First Tuesdays -at Terraza 7 at 4019 Gleane St, Elmhurst, Queens, New York 11373
awp events
April 9 (Thursday) 8-10pm AWP reading for Kattywompus Press featuring Cornelius Eady, Chris Shipman, myself and many more (offsite) at Kieran’s Irish Pub, 85 6th St N, Mpls, MN
April 10 (Friday) 10am- Noon - I'll be signing books with Dena Rash Guzman at the Cambridge Writers Workshop Table #954
1-2pm I'll be signing books at the Kattywompus Press booth : #307
April 11 (Saturday) 3-5pm Reading with the Cambridge Writers Workshop at Boneshakers Bookstore (offsite) featuring Bianca Stone, Jessica Piazza, Dena Rash Guzman, Myself and others, at 2002 23rd Ave South, Minneapolis, MN.
April 24- COUPLET READING SERIES & SOCIAL - Spring/ National Poetry Month Edition - 7-10pm at The Delancey, LES, NYC Featured poets are: Helen Vitoria, Nick Flynn, Kendra DeColo, John Deming, Matthea Harvey, and Anne-Marie Fyfe
April 30 - "Uptown Poets Reading" at Book Culture on Columbus Avenue,UWS, NYC 7pm.
march
March 1 -- Fantasy Reading with Kathleen Ossip at The Bowery Poetry Club, . NYC at 8:30 PM
March 19- 7:30 pm -- Reading with Sean H. Doyle at The College of Saint Rose Standish Rooms/ Events and Athletics Center, Second Floor/ 420 Western Avenue/ Albany, NY 12203-- Albany, NY
March 20, 4:00 - 530 p.m-- Saratoga Springs Public Library, with Nancy White and Barbara Louise Ungar. Contact Zoe Nousiainen znousiainen@sals.edu
March 22, 2:00 p.m. Women Myth and Media : a poetry reading for Women's History Month with Barbara Louise Ungar and Leah Umansky Rensselaerville Library, Rensselaerville, NY Contact Kim Graff director@rensselaervillelibrary.or
february
February 3rd - l "Making Poems" reading at The New School at 6:30pm.
january
January 23 - COUPLET READING SERIES featuring: Katie Byrum, John Ebensole, Katie Byrum, Rachel Zucker and Sarah Gerard at The Delancey, LES, NYC 7pm.
December
Dec 8 - 8pm - Reading at BookCourt in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn for Sackett Street Writers, featuring Will Boast, Emily St. John Mandel, Diane Cook, Leah Umansky, and Dina Nayeri
november
November 21 Reading for Locked-Horn Press with Angela Veronica Wong, Cheryl Fish and others - Berl's Poetry Shop
october
October 10 - Reading with David Lehman at NYU's Lillian Vernon House at 5pm. Facebook invite, here.
October 17- THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF COUPLET - featuring, Hila Ratzabi, Talia Shalev, Jason Koo, John Reed and Rachel McKibbens.
September
September 4 - Reading for Largehearted Lit with Will Chancellor and Scott Cheshire at SPIRITED Brooklyn [POSTPONED UNTIL FUTURE NOTICE}
September 6 - Reading as part of ,"VAST WASTELAND: Poets Respond to TV" at Berl's Poetry Shop.
August
Aug 20 -Reading in "The 3rd Anniversary of Renegade Reading Series" with Elissa Schappell, Scott Cheshire and others at 8pm at Cool Pony in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
July
Southern USA Road Trip/ Book Tour for Don Dreams and I Dream
(Read about the tour, here. )
(June 26- July 5)
June 26 - Reading for "What's New In Poetry" at the Emory University Bookstore in Atlanta, Georgia
June 27 - Reading at Avid Bookshop with the Avid Poetry Series, in Athens, Georgia
June 29 -A Night of Music and Poetry at Nightbell - Asheville, NC reading at Nightbell
July 2 - Reading at East Side TN Books 4-6pm - Nashville, Tennessee
July 12 - MR HIP PRESENTS -Poets House NYC 6:30pm $10 Invite,
July 23 - Mellow Pages Library - reading with fiction writer, and friend, Meagan Cass at 6:30PM
July 27 - Poetry Festival of NYC (at Govenors Island). I'm reading at 430pm at Chumley's Stage for Coconut Magazine and is reading at 1:45 at the White Horse Stage.
June
June 19 - "Poetry Potpourri" at WORD Bookstore -with Elvis Alves, Joanna Penn Cooper, and Lisa Marie Basile
May
May 9 - Red Sofa Salon - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 8pm (buy tickets ahead of time)
April
April 12 - Reading at ARGO Bookshop in Montreal, Canada
April 23 at 7pm at the Syosset Public Library for a" Local Authors Showcase. " (syosset, long island, NY)
April 26 - Reading at Northshire Books in Manchester Center, Vermont.
March
March 10th - Franklin Park Reading Series - 5th anniversary 8pm
March 15th - the Return of COUPLET - SPRING EDITION at 7pm featuring five fabulous writers.
March 25th -Short Takes with Sarah Gerard and Joseph Riippi at 7pm at McNally Jackson Books.
February
AWP
I have three readings at AWP two are on Thursday the 27th of February. . .One in the early evening , "Transforming Text," a panel on Poetry and Collage at the Project Room, and one is the Similar Peaks Poetry Release Party later that night at Vermillion Art Gallery in Seattle. The last is on Friday night with the Cambridge Writers Workshop
Book signing of Don Dreams and I Dream on Thursday 2/27 from 2-3PM at Booth #624 (Kattywompus Press) at AWP.
January
My next reading is Jan 31 at Mellow Pages library, in Brooklyn, with John Reed and Donald Breckenberg. Invite here.
December
November
November 11th - NYU Reading with Lisa Marie Basile, Sarah Sweeney, and Anne Champion. Info Here. 7pm.
November 30th - Great Weather for Media, Parkside Lounge, East Village, NYC.
October
[October 4th - the 2 year anniversary of COUPLET - at The Delancey]
October 18th - Derangement of the Senses at Happy Ending Lounge [will be rescheduled, venue and date change forthcoming]
September -
September 24 - Bryant Park Reading - "Word for Word" poetry featuring the poets of BlazeVOX
September 28 - Rochester, NY - Rachel McKibbens' "Poetry & Pie Night."
August
July (Pacific NW)
July 16 Reading with Dena Rash Guzman , and other very talented female writers ,at The Blue Monk in Portland, Oregon for Unchaste Readers at 8pm. (read more, here)
July 18- Reading with Luke B. Goebel at Ristretto Roasters. Portland, Oregon Ristretto Roasters Reading Series at 7pm.
July 20- Reading at the "A New Cadence Poetry Series" at Felix Kulpa Gallery --Santa Cruz, California
July 24 - Reading with Tom Healy and Adam Fitzgerald at Richard Hugo House, Seattle, Washington
Read about my Book Tour for Domestic Uncertainties HERE !
July 28 -- COUPLET reads at the 3rd Annual New York Poetry Festival at Govenors Island. The Invite on FB i
June -
June 12th - Reading with John Reed and Dustin Luke Nelson at Molasses Books. Invite: here.
June 15th - Reading at Walt Whitman's Birthplace as part of "SPARK BOOM's Long Island Voices" from 7-9 pm in Huntington, Long Island, NY
June 19th - Patasola Parlor (this time, I won't be sick) at Happy
May -
Earshot at 730pm at Lolita Bar on the Lower East Side of NYC
April
April 18 - Inaugural reading for 1st issue of The Mackinac at Milk & Roses.
April 19th- Conklin Barn - Huntington Historical Society (Long Island)
April 21 Sunday Salon
April 24 - Guerrilla Lit
April 27 Pete's Candy Store (BK)
March
February
Feb 22 - Stain of Poetry, Brooklyn
Feb 27- Perfect Sense Reading - Cornelia Street Cafe, (West Village NYC)
January
January 8th, Reading at The Book Report at Le Poisson Rouge (details tba)
January 14th - featured w/the Sackett Street Writers at BOOKCOURT - Brooklyn
January 23rd- reading with Laura Cronk, and other poets at Vica Miller's Salon on the UWS of Manhattan.
January 5th, Book Release Party for DOMESTIC UNCERTAINTIES at KGB BAR (7pm-9pm) in East Village, NYC
December
November
November 14th, 2012
I will be reading with some other fabulous readings for InDigest Magazine's Hurricane Sandy Benefit Reading at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC at 7PM.
October
I will be reading with some other fabulous readers on behalf of the new issue of Ping-Pong.
September
September 6, 2012
I will be reading as part of the "Sweet Actors Reading Writers" Series at 730PM at Three of Cups in the East Village (83 1st avenue at 5th st)
PREVIOUS READINGS:
July 21, 2012
I will be reading as part of a fabulous line-up of writers for Underwater New York in the Second Annual New York Poetry Festival at 12:30pm.
At 2:30pm, my reading series COUPLET: A poetry and music series will be reading at the Festival, as well. Come on out !!
June 3, 2012
I will be reading as part of a fabulous line up of writers for the HOWL Festival in Tompkins Square Park from 1-4.
May 19, 2012
I will be reading as part of the BROOKLYN LIT CRAWL with the Cambridge Writers Workshop at CEOL in Brooklyn from 6-7pm.
May 2, 2012
I will be reading as part of a great grouping of writers at the May, Freerange Nonfiction Reading Series
April 17, 2012
I will be reading as part of a fabulous line-up of writers at the April, Franklin Park Reading Series from 8-10pm.
Feb 3, 2012
I'm reading as a part of the Lyre-Lyre Issue 2 Reading/Party at Lolita Bar at 7pm.
Jan 12, 2012
NEW COUPLET: The Delancey, LES, NYC. See www.coupletreadingseries.tumblr.com for more info
Dec 4, 2011
Cake Shop - Lower East Side - New York, NY
Nov 5, 2011
Paterson Literary Review #39 Issue Party & Reading
Reading as part of the PLR Reading at The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College
Hamilton Club Building Paterson, NJ 07505
September 10, 2011 -
NYC LIT CRAWL / Dirty Laundry Series.
June 12, 2011
Lolita Bar: A reading featuring: Leah Umansky; Barbara Louise Ungar; Lauren Russell; Seth Graves; Liz Axelrod and Rebecca Melnyk
April 10, 2010
American Voice in Poetry Anthology Reading Hamilton Club Building Paterson, NJ 07505
October 24, 2007
Post MFA reading – Cornelia Street Café, New York. New York
September 22, 2006
Earshot Reading Series Brooklyn, New York
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July 30th, 2002
Bluestockings Women's Bookstore & Cafe, New York, New York
january
Jan 23rd at 7pm at The Delancey is the return of COUPLET: starring: Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Claudia Cortese, Sharon Mesmer, Kristina Bicher, Clark Moore & Michael Morse