Events, Readings, Signings

All times Eastern US unless otherwise noted

Upcoming:
• Wednesday, January 8, 2025 5:30 pm. A Path to Freedom anthology from Longleaf Press reading. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities. Southern Pines, NC.
  In person with selected anthology contributors.
• Sunday, January 26, 2025. 2 pm. North Carolina Poetry Society Series at McIntyre’s Books in Fearrington Village, NC.
  In person with M. Scott Douglass and Anna Lewis followed by open mic.
• Monday, March 31 – Monday, April 7, 2025. Writer-in-Residence. Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, Southern Pines, NC
• Sunday, April 6, 2025. 4 pm. Poetry by the Pond. In Person with TBA. Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, Southern Pines, NC
• Saturday, May 2-4, 2025. North Carolina Writers Network Fall Conference.
  All Stories Connect panel discussion:
  Have You People Never Seen The Terminator?: Writers & AI
  In person with Michele T. Berger and Patrick Cumby
  Rescheduled from Fall 2024
• Tuesday, September 9, 2025 Poetry Hickory
  In person with Debra Kaufman followed by open mic.
  Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse, Hickory, NC
• Wednesday, December 10, 2025. 7 pm.
  Weave and Spin series at Orange County Arts Commission and Eno Arts Mill.
  Featured poet with open mic following.

Past Events:
• Thursday, November 14, 2024. 7 pm. Red-headed Stepchild reading series
  On Zoom. Something Necessary followed by open mic.
  Missed this reading? View it here on YouTube.
• Wednesday, November 13, 2024. 6 pm. Poetry at the Plant.
  In person with Darryl Wally, Don Wildman, Melissa Frey, Brenda Linton, and Gary Phillips.
  Fair Game Distillery at the Plant, Pittsboro, NC
• Sunday, November 10, 2024. 2:30 pm. Flyleaf Poetry 2nd Sunday Series.
  In person and in conversation with Fred Joiner followed by open mic.
  Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC.
• Thursday, October 17, 2024. 6:30 pm. West End Poetry Festival Kickoff reading.
  Luna Rotisserie Carrboro, NC
  With Carrboro Poets Council members.
• Sunday, November 3, 2024. 5 pm. Word Play Radio with Jeff Davis. AshevilleFM.To be rescheduled for Spring 2025
• Saturday, September 28, 2024. 6:30 pm. Bull City Press Series meets Golden Age Improv Comedy. In Person with Amanda Shaw. Mettlesome in Durham, NC.
• Saturday, September 14, 2024. 3:30 pm. Thomas Stevens Gallery Hillsborough, NC
  In person with David Rigsbee.
• Sunday, September 15, 2024. 2 pm. McIntyre’s Books in Fearrington Village, NC.
  In person with David Rigsbee.
• Sunday, September 15, 2024. 6 pm. So & So Books.
  In person with David Rigsbee.
  So & So Books in Raleigh, NC.
• Monday, September 9, 2024. 8 am. WHUP radio 3D News with Bob Burtman.
  Interview about Something Necessary. On air and on website above until 9/23/24.
• Wednesday, August 28, 2024. Talking Culture with Aaron Keck.
  WCHL and Chapelboro.com
  Interview about Something Necessary. On air and on tape on website above.
• Friday, May 3, 2024. 6 pm. In Person. Confluence – Where Art and Poetry Meet. With selected artists and poets. Pittsboro Gallery of Arts. Pittsboro, NC.
• Friday, April 12-30, 2024. First Annual Pittsboro Poetry Stroll. Posters of poems are placed around the Town of Pittsboro. Mine is in Non-Fiction Section of the Chatham Community Library in Pittsboro, NC
• Sunday, April 21, 2024. 2 pm. In Person. Kakalak Poets Group Reading. Scuppernong Books, Greensboro, NC.
• Sunday, April 14, 2024. 4 pm. Poetry by the Pond. In Person with Donna Wallace and Gary Phillips. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, Southern Pines, NC
• Saturday, March 16, 2024. 2 pm. Snapdragon Anthology Reading In person. At Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, NC.
• Sunday, March 10, 2024. 1-3pm. Poetry on Tap. Oden Brewing Company, Greensboro, NC. Featured poet with Janis Harrington and Jenny Bates.
• Friday, March 8, 2024. 7 pm. In Person. Carrboro Kakalak Poets Group Reading. Carrboro Civic Club, 108 Bim Street, Carrboro, NC
• Saturday, February 24, 2024. 7:30 pm. In Person also featuring Annie Woodford and Simon Palmore. Bull City Press/Mettlesome Reading series. At Mettlesome Theatre, 800 Taylor Street, Suite 9-156, Durham, NC, 27701.(map) includes Improv!
• Thursday, February 15, 2024. 12-2 pm at Bogue Banks Public Library, Pine Knoll Shores, NC. Poems on Posters series.(My part canceled because of jury duty. The event will go on.).
• Thursday, February 8, 2024. 7 pm. On Zoom. Kakalak Poets Group Reading.
• Wednesday, January 10, 2024. 6-7 pm at The Plant. Lorax Lane, Pittsboro, NC. With Black Socks Poets.
• Wednesday, December 13, 2023. 7 pm. Weave and Spin series at Orange County Arts Commission and Eno Arts Mill. Featured poet with open mic following.
• Friday, November 3, 2023. Noon. NC Writers Network Ekphrastic Pre-conference “Tail Gate” with Chris Arvidson at Charlotte Art League. Details here.
• Friday, October 27, 2023. 7 pm. Ekphrastic poems and photos. ArtCenter Carrboro, NC. With several Black Socks poets and others.
• Saturday, September 30. 10 am – 2 pm. Catawba Valley Festival of the Arts. Book Fair. Catawba County Main Library. 115 West C St., Newton, NC
• Sunday, August 20. 4 pm. Visions International reading with Hassan Melehy. On Zoom.
• Monday, August 28 – Monday, September 4, 2023. Writers Residency at Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities. Southern Pines, NC.
• Saturday April 1, 2 pm.
  Poetry in Plain Sight reading. Hybrid with other PiPS poets.
  In person at North Regional Library, Durham, NC.
• Sunday March 26, 2023, 2 pm.
  The Country Bookshop, Southern Pines, NC. Reading from Something Wonderful with Pat Rivière-Seel.
• Saturday, March 18, 2023, 1 pm.
  Verse Virtual Book Party – Number 3. On Zoom. Registration required.
• Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 6 pm.
  Carrboro Poets Council reading. In person with others. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill
• Friday, March 10, 2023, 6 pm.
  Charlotte Art League – Art and Poetry Opening. In person with several other writers. My poem, the same one seen in Hillsborough, will be somewhere sort of random as a surprise. In the bathroom! The one with a shark mural.
• Friday, January 6, 2023, 6 pm. Coalesce – Art and Poetry Opening. Eno Arts Mill, Hillsborough, NC. Show continues until February. Broadsides of art and poetry available here!
  In person with poets: Morrow Dowdle (co-curator), Bartholomew Barker, Fred Joiner, Paul Jones, Samir Knego, Amelia Loeffler, Blaine Purcell, Soteria Shepperson, Gideon Young, and Katie Bowler Young
  with art by: Max Dowdle (co-curator), Theresa Arico, Tonya Brami, Ann Brownlee Hobgood, TJ Mundy, Sudie Rakusin, Ryan Solstice, Dennis Szerszen, Natalia Torres del Valle, and Esten Walker
• Saturday, October 29, 2022, 2 – 4:30 pm. Hermit Feathers Press Poetry-polozza. Three Sisters Stage at Stoke County Arts Council, Danbury, NC. In person with other Hermit Feathers Press poets.
• Sunday, October 30, 2022, 4 pm. Scuppernong Books. Greensboro, NC. In person with Kate Kehoe and Pat Rivière-Seel.
• Monday, October 17, 2022, 2 pm (7 pm BST aka GMT). Indelible Literary and Arts Journal Oktober Fest reading. On Zoom world-wide. With Debra Kaufman, Hedy Habra, Joan Leotta, and others.
• Saturday, October 8, 2022, 3 pm, City Lights Books, Sylva, NC. In person with Pat Rivière-Seel and Ben Cutler.
• Sunday, September 25, 2022, 2 pm, McIntyre’s Books, Fearrington Village, Pittsboro, NC. In person with Pat Rivière-Seel and Gary Phillips.
• Wednesday-Saturday, September 14-17, 2022. On the Same Page Literary Festival. West Jefferson and Ashe County, NC. In person.
  * Thursday, September 15 at 11 am – Ashe County Library, West Jefferson, NC.
  * Thursday, September 15 at 7:30 pm – panel w/ Georgann Eubanks, Ed Southern, and Jamie Southern at Ashe County Arts Center.
  * Saturday, September 17 at 9 am – Old Orchard Creek General Store, Lansing, NC
• Saturday, September 10, 2022, 6 pm. Reading at Thomas Stevens Gallery, Books by Purple Crow Books. Hillsborough, NC. In person with Sally Greene.
• Tuesday, September 6, 7:30 AM, Interview on This Morning with Aaron Keck on WCHL Chapelboro with Sally Greene. (Available online sometime after airing).
• Tuesday, August 9, 2022, 6:30 pm, Poetry Hickory, Taste Full Beans, Hickory, NC. In person
• Thursday June 30, 2022, 5:30 signing, 6:00 reading, Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC. In person with Sally Greene. Sign up and details here.
• Wednesday, June 22, 7 pm, Waterbean Poetry Night and open mic. WaterBean Coffee Huntersville, NC. In person with Pat Riviere-Seel. See FB event for more details
• Monday, May 23 – Monday, May 29, 2022. Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities Residency, Southern Pines, NC. In person reading with Sally Greene at 5:30 pm Wednesday May 25
• Tuesday May 3, 2022, 7 pm, Nexus Poets, Unitarian Fellowship, 308 Meadows St., New Bern, NC. In person followed by open mic. Event video on Facebook here.
• Friday April 22, 2022, 5:30 signing, 6:00 reading, Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC. In person with Jeff Franklin and Janis Harrington. Celebrating North Carolina Literary Review.
• Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 7 pm, 4 on the 4th for Poetry Month, Bookmarks, Winston-Salem, NC. In person with Joyce Brown, Nadine Hayes, Sam Barbee, and Kimberly Olivera Lainez. Free but registration is required (at link to 4 on the 4th above).
• Friday, April 15, 4-6 pm. Kings Mill-Morgan Creek Aging in Place Pub. In person.
• Sunday, April 3, 5pm (PST)/8pm (EST), Sheila-Na-Gig. Reading featuring Millicent Borges Accardi on Zoom. With contributors from the Winter issue 2021-22 including Paul Jones and others. Missed this? Watch it here on YouTube.
• Friday, March 11, 2022, 10 am EST-US, 7 pm Dubai, 5 pm UK, Issue 6 Launch – The Feminine, Indelible Literary and Arts Journal at American University in Dubai. Online.
  To register for the Zoom session go here.
  Readers: Chun Yu, Gottfried M. Heuer, Anna Citrino, Ralph Earle, Maura High, Debra Kaufman, Jenny Bates, Lucy Holme, Jade Nicole Beals, Paul Jones, Anna Aksenova, Norbert Hirschhorn
• Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 7 pm, The Jojo Show with John Compton. On Facebook Live and recorded for replay here
• Tuesday, January 18, 2022, 8 pm, Red Fez issue 153 Kick Off. Zoom link here.
• Sunday, January 9, 2022, 4:00 pm, Poetrio With Aruni Kashyap and Pat Riviere-Seel, Malaprop’s Bookstore Asheville, NC. Online. Watch the YouTube Live replay here.
  
• Thursday, December 9, 2021, 7 pm, Carolina Poets #PoetryGoesViral online with Pat Reviere-Seel and Tom Johnson Watch the YouTube session archive here
• Thursday December 2, 2021, 7 pm, Redheaded Stepchild Magazine Reading Series, online
  Watch the Zoom session archive here
• Wednesday Decemember 1, 2021, 6 pm, 5 Redhawk Poets on Zoom Jake Young, Mary Ricketson, Paul Jones, Schereeya and Tim Peeler
  Watch the Zoom session archive here
• Sunday November 28, 2021, 5 pm, Wordplay Radio, Asheville FM on air and online
  Listen to the show here at any time
• Thursday November 18, 2021, 7 pm, So and So Books, Raleigh, NC in person with Pat Reviere-Seel and Al Maginnes
• Monday November 8, 2021, 8 am, 3D News WHUP FM (Recorded begin 23 minutes into the November 8 show) Hillsborough, NC on air and online
• Saturday October 30, 2021 noon – 6 pm, Redhawk Publications and Redhawk Creative Solutions Book Fair at Catawba Farms, Newton, NC in person