I’m grateful to Laura & Justin, owners of Second Flight Books, for hosting me for a Tippecanoe County poetry reading! I’ll be reading with Bess Cooley, whose debut collection, Florence, just came out with Sundress Publications. (Bess is a Purdue MFA grad.)

Second Flight, and its sister store, Main Street Books, are wonderful stores—well-stocked, queer-positive, and utterly friendly. I’ve loved them both for years, and Laura and Justin are the best too. I’m grateful to call them friends, and to play games with them monthly alongside Brian Leung and Brian Yost!'

We’ll have books for sale!

I’ll be flying to Los Angeles for AWP in late March to promote When the Earth Flies into the Sun. If you’d like a signed copy of the book, I’ll be at the Saturnalia Books table on Thursday, March 27 from 1-1:30 PM. And Saturnalia will once again have an off-site reading: details TBD!

But if you’d like to meet up, just drop me an email! I’ll be around from late on Wednesday, March 26 until the morning of Saturday, March 29.

Jesse and I will team up again for a reading at fellow GLCA school, Allegneny College. I’m grateful to Christopher Bakken for inviting us both! Details below:

Thursday, March 20, 2025

4:30 pm • Q&A • Odd Fellows 105C
7 pm • Reading • Tillotson Room • Tippie Alumni CenterFor more information contact Christopher Bakken at cbakken@allegheny.edu Sponsored by the Sturtevant Lectureship fund

I’ll be joining my friends and fellow Denison University alumni writers, Katie Berta and Alison Stine, as we discuss literary careers, writing, and other sundry topics related to a life in letters. This event will be part of Denison’s Arts ReMix, a three-day event held from March 5-8, hosted on campus, and designed to showcase and celebrate DU arts: music, literature, theater, the visual arts, etc. I’m very glad to be invited!

Time of panel and location on campus is still TBD.

I’m looking forward to reading down the hall from my office in the ever-familiar Center Hall 216. I’ll have books for sale and, I hope, some of my lovely students in attendance. As is de rigueur for any lunchtime event at Wabash, there will be a mountain of free Brothers Pizza, the official pizza of Wabash’s English Department.

This event is rescheduled from Feb. 12, when I had to cancel due to illness.

I’ll be reading at Hungry Brain, a bar in Chicago, alongside Jaswinder Bolina—an At Length contributor and fine poet!—and one other this December. The event is 21+ but also free. Just come and have a cocktail, hear some poetry, and slide into the holidays. Midwesterners: note that the time is CDT

Thanks to Simone Muench and Kenyatta Rogers for hosting me!

I’m delighted that I’ll be joining my Saturnalia press-mates to raise money for our supportive, aesthetically daring, and all-around wonderful press. This event will be help over Zoom, though you’ll have the opportunity to buy books, donate to Saturnalia, and (of course) hear some fine poetry.

Here’s a link to register (free!) for the event!

And here’s a lineup of the readers:

Chris Brunt
Jonathan C. Chou
Andrea Jurjević
Becca Klaver 
Derek Mong
Travis Mossotti
Jared Stanley

Guest Reader: Roberto Tejada

I’ll be back in Ann Arbor, Michigan—home of my MFA at U of M and the city where I met my wife!—on December 4th to read with Katie Hartsock. I’m a big fan of Katie’s work, which we’ll feature in an upcoming issue of At Length, and I’m grateful to say that I’ve known her since we met in Ann Arbor, way back in the mid-2000s, while we were both doing our MFAs.

And what a joy to read at Literati Bookstore, which is carrying on the torch from the legendary Shaman Drum!

I’m looking forward to a reading in Indy with my old friend, Jesse Nathan, whose book Eggtooth is a delight. Added bonus? Tomorrow Bookstore, our gracious host, is run by Jake Budler and Julia Breakey. Jake and his brothers all went to Wabash, and I’ve know him and Julia for quite awhile! Jesse and I will be joined by the poet Isabella Mansfield as well. Hope to see you there

Doors open at 7 PM, reading at 7:30.!

Four authors from Saturnalia Books will be reading as part of the Bryant Park Reading Series, presented in Midtown Manhattan (NYC) under the summer sky. Join me, Star Black, Libby Burton, and Cortney Lamar Charleston for a night of poetry.

On Saturday, November 16, 2019, I’ll give a poetry reading at the Writer’s Block Festival in Louisville, KY. The day-long festival will be held at Spalding University. Reading time TBD.

On Saturday, November 16, 2019, I’ll teach a mini course called “Meter Matters | Meters Morph” at the Writer’s Block Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. Registration is open to the public. The day-long festival will be held at Spalding University. Course description below:

There is more to meter than meets the eye (or ear). In this workshop we’ll take a decidedly un-tweedy look at English metrics, asking ourselves to imagine new and unusual ways to measure our lines. We’ll read poems that count their syllables (syllabics), their accents (accentuals), or both (accentual syllabics). We’ll ask whether Twitter coined a meter (made of characters); we’ll see if we can measure letters and words. Can a prose poem, which eschews the line entirely, find meter? Is there a paradoxical freedom in inventing our own forms? Expect to read poems by Marilyn Hacker, Terrance Hayes, Richard Wilbur, Lyn Hejinian, Robert Frost, and others. The workshop will begin with a crash course in traditional metrics, then we’ll expand outward. We’ll write. We’ll count stuff on our fingers. We’ll find our feet.

On Saturday, November 16, 2019, I’ll join a lunchtime roundtable on publishing at the Writer’s Block Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. The day-long festival will be held at Spalding University.

As part of Wabash College’s Humanities Colloquium, I’ll read an essay on masculinity and poetry as it relates to Walt Whitman’s recently discovered prose work, On Manly Health and Healing; Robert Bly’s Collected Poems; and Christopher Kempf’s debut poetry collection, Late in the Empire of Men.

Talk will be held in Detchon 209.

Join Derek Mong, Ladan Osman, and Sally Wen Mao for a night of poetry in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill neighborhood. The reading is part of Brooklyn Poets, a wonderful organization founded by Jason Koo, which brings poets, workshops, and Whitman love to Brooklyn, NY.