Conference Papers
“Elegy and Poetic Activism.” Associated Writing Program’s (AWP)
Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, February 2009.
“Topography of an archive: Helen Adam’s San Francisco,” Modern
Language Association (MLA), San Francisco, December 2008.
“Hip hop and the Art of Teaching Persuasion,” Conference on
College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, April 2008.
“Struggle against dispersion: the archive and the drive to
survive,” 20th Century Literature Conference, University of
Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 2008.
“Radical Epiphany,” 20th Century Literature Conference,
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 2007.
“Realms of Language: Poetry and the Language of Science,”
Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena Conference (INSAP) at the
Alder Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Chicago, July 2005.
“Risking it: Politics, Teaching, Translation,” The Associated
Writing Program’s Conference in Baltimore, MD, February 2003.
“Investigating the New Chaos: Anne Waldman’s Collaborations with
Visual Artists,” Makeup on Empty Space: A Celebration of Anne
Waldman at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 2002.
“Modernism and the Forgotten Ballad Tradition,” The National
Poetry Foundation’s Conference on Twentieth-Century Poetics at The
University of Maine, Orono, MI., June 2000.
“Helen Adam and the San Francisco Renaissance,” Twentieth
Century Literature Conference at The University of Louisville, KY.,
Feb. 1997.
“The Worm Queen Emerges: Notes from the Helen Adam Archive,” The
Recovery of the Public Word: A Conference in Honour of Robin Blaser
at The Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C.,
June 1995.
Lectures and Talks
2007-2008 appearances include talks given at the University at
Buffalo, Wayne State University, Poet’s House and the Tribeca Arts
Center, Queens Library Gallery, Queens, NY, and Naropa
University.
2007-2008 poetry readings include events at Rust Belt Books
(Buffalo, NY), Eastern Michigan University, Lilian Vernon Creative
Writers House, (NYU), Naropa University, Evergreen University
(Olympia, WA), Werkstatte Gallery( NYC), Illinois State University
The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, The Poetry
Project at St Mark’s Church, The Bowery Poetry Club (NYC).