PRESENTATIONS
“From Analog to Digital: The Hip-hop DJ as Reader and Writer in
English Composition”, National Council of Teachers of English
Conference – Philadelphia, PA. Winter 2009.
“Damn, That DJ Made My Day: The Hip Hop DJ Pedagogy in English
Composition”, Conference of College Composition and Communication –
San Francisco, CA. Spring 2009.
Panel Presentation, "Leaders of the New School: Sampling &
Remixing in Rap as Hip-Hop Pedagogy in Re-visionist Writing",
Watson Conference – Louisville, KY. Fall 2008.
Panel Presentation, “1200’s Tucked Under the Wing: Hip-Hop’s
Original Microsoft Word”, St. Johns University Graduate School
Conference – Flushing, NY. Spring 2008.
Workshop Presentation, “Out of the Classroom into the Streets:
Community-based Ethnographic Research in Composition and Basic
Skills Courses”, Conference on College Composition and
Communication – New Orleans, LA. Spring 2008.
INVITED TALKS
“Rent Control: NYC Documented and Imagined – Part VII: Queens” –
Guest Panelist, Maysles Cinema, New York, NY. Spring 2009.
“Urban Wall Street Project: In-Studio Series – tor’cha: a novel and
soundtrack” Featured Special Guest, Urban Wall Street Project.
Bronx, NY. Spring 2009.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBFP9_L8bWA)
…tor’cha… Author Talk, Reading and Book Signing, Queens
Public Library – Saint Albans Branch – Saint Albans, NY. Summer
2008.
“So you’ve published a book…now what?” – Marketing and Promotion
Strategies for First-Time Novelists. Queens Book Fair – Jamaica,
NY. Summer 2008.
"…tor’cha… – the movement month” Guest Author, Squeeze
Radio, 89.9FM – New York, NY. Summer 2008.
“…tor’cha… – the book with it’s own theme music…what?” Guest
Author, Spitkicker Radio: XM The Rhyme 65 – New York, NY. Summer
2008.
“Writing – The Quick Way Outta Here: Helping Youth Achieve
Educational Goals Through Writing”. Guest Speaker, Groundwork Inc.
– Brooklyn, NY. Summer 2008.
…tor’cha… Book Signing, Harlem Book Fair – New York, NY.
Summer 2008.
“Coming Home: Lessons from That Otha Side”. Author Talk, Reading
and Book Signing, Queens Public Library – Long Island City Branch –
Long Island City, NY. Spring 2008.
“Write Your Way Right Through High School”. Guest Speaker, YAWP
(Young Adult Writers Program), Grub Street – Boston, MA. Spring
2008.
…tor’cha… Book Signing, AWP Conference – New York, NY.
Winter 2008.
Guest Reader, Faculty Reading Series, Queensborough Community
College - Bayside, NY. Spring 2007 and Spring 2008.
Guest Poet, Black History Month Poetry Showcase, Queensborough
Community College – Bayside, NY. Winter 2005.
Guest Poet, Soul Skool Monthly Artist Showcase - Philadelphia, PA.
Winter 2004.
Guest Reader, Wet Daddy Literary Festival “Revenge of the Crooklyn
Dodgers” – Brooklyn, NY. Summer 2003.
Featured Poet, “…fess a tion, my man…”, for WARNINGS-HAPPENINGS,
Susquehanna State University Music Concert –Selinsgrove, PA.
Commissioned as featured prose poet for performance with
Improvisational Jazz group Newspeak. Spring 2003.
Featured Poet, “the world of crime called drug words”, University
of Minnesota – Minneapolis, MN. Poem adapted into performative
presentation for Drama department. Winter 2003.
Guest Poet, Southwest State University Writers Collective –
Marshall, MN. Winter 2002.
Guest Poet, INSIDE OUT, Atlantic Center for the Arts – New Smyrna
Beach, FL. Featured Guest Poet for collaborative artist
performances with Master Artist/Poet Anne Waldman. Summer
2002.
Guest Reader, Harvard Graduate School of Education – Cambridge, MA.
Featured reader at Student Open Mic with Saul Williams. Fall
2000.
“Words like Hyroglyphics Etched in Eygptian Tombs for Life”,
Pre-Commencement Speaker at Harvard Graduate School of Education –
Cambridge, MA. Spring 1999.