Conferences, Featured Readings and Lectures

Barnard College Conference on Poetry & Performance, Barnard College, New York City,  April 8-10, 2002.

Celebration of the Sonnet, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, April 2, 2002.

Featured Reading:  Lee Ann Brown, Christian Bok and Ben Marcus, in conjunction with show, Heavenly Visions: Shaker Gift Drawings, The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, NYC, December 4, 2001.

Conference on Gertrude Stein, hosted by NYU, Judson Memorial Church  and The Poetry Project, October 2001.

“Festival Within,” reading and roundtables in celebration of The Best American Poetry 2001, Huntington L.I., September 29-30, 2001.

Insomniacathon, (Benefit for Louisville Battered Women’s Shelter), Louisville, Kentucky, February 24-25, 2001.

The People’s Poetry Gathering, presentation on Women’s Spirituality with Brenda Hillman and Claudia Rankine, Poet’s House, New York City, March, 2001.

The 3rd Annual Boston Poetry Festival, The Art Institute at Lesley College, July 21-23, 2000.

The Opening of the Field:  Poetry of the 1960’s, University of Maine at Orono, June 28-July 2, 2000.

Poetry & Pedagogy, Institute for Writing &Thinking, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, June, 1999.

Barnard Innovative Women Writers Conference, Barnard College, New York City,  April 8-10, 1999.

The People’s Poetry Gathering, co-hosted by CitiLore & Poet’s House, New York City, March 4-6, 1999.

Page Mothers Conference on Women Poet & Publishers, University of California at San Diego, March 4-6, 1999.

Centre de International Poesie Marseille (CIPM), Conference on American Cinema & Poetry, Marseille France, October, 1998.

Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry, Jesus College, Cambridge University, England,  April  24-26, 1998.

Assembling Alternatives: An International Poetry Conference / Festival, Featured Poet, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, (August 29– September 26, 1998).

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Visiting Poet, sponsored by Department of Creative Writing, (April  6, 1995).

University of California, San Diego:  Featured Poet, Filmmaker & Lecturer in “New Writing Series,”  sponsored by English & Art Departments (week of October 12, 1994).

Beat Conference, Featured Poet, Loeb Student Center, New York University, (May, 1994).

The New Freedoms:  Contemporary Russian & American Poetry Conference, Featured Poet, Stevens Institute of Technology,  Hoboken, NJ, (April 8-10, 1994).

First Festival of New Poetry at SUNY Buffalo, Featured Poet and Panelist, (March 31-April 2, 1993).

Poetry Workshop, taught by Forrest Gander, Guest lecturer, Providence College, (Fall, 1992).

“Multicultural Women’s Literature,” Guest lecturer,  taught by Lorna D. Cervantes, University of Colorado at Boulder, (Summer, 1992).

Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, B.C., Weekend Residency, Reading, Film and Lecture, (August, 1991).
Artistic and Academic Service.

Visiting Artist for Undergraduate Senior Thesis Review, Performance Poetry, University of Pennsylvania, Shippensburg, (also performed, and gave interview for Reflector, the Undergraduate Literary Journal), April 1998.

Panelist, Grants in Literature, Bronx Council on the Arts, Spring 1998.

Panelist, Artists’ Projects Grants, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Providence, RI, Fall 1995.

Judge: eorge Grummer Poetry Award, Phoebe: A Journal of Literary Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, May, 1995.