EVENTS

2022

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december 2021

12/5/21 – Church Street Coffee & Books Author Expo (1:30pm)

12/11/21 – Black Writers Workspace Holiday Book Fair (10am-2pm)

12/11/21 – Ernest and Hadley Bookstore (3:30pm)

12/16/21 – SHELF LIFE – Music, Grace & Grit: Black Voices in Verse – Virginia Festival of the Book (11am)

DARK SALT SISTERS TOUR POSTER

-2018-

August 25, 2018 – Burdock Book Party – Birmingham Breadworks – Birmingham, AL

August 14, 2018 – Code Switch Live : Birmingham – NPR

-2017-

January 15-20, 2017 – Writer in Residence – The Betsy Hotel – Miami, Florida

January 15-16, 2017 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service Program (Featured Author) – Sunrise, FL

January 17, 2017, 9:30am – Breakfast Arts Salon – the Betsy Hotel – Miami, FL

January 20, 2017,  8pm- Magic City Gospel Miami Release Party – Books and Books – Coral Gables, FL

January 23, 2017, 6pm – Evening of Performance – Jefferson State Community College – Birmingham, AL

February 8, 2017, 5pm – Tupelo Quarterly Offsite Reading – Buttercream Bakeshop – Washington, DC

February 8-11 – AWP – Washington, DC

February 16, 2017 – Nitty Gritty Magic City Reading Series (with L. Lamar Wilson) – Birmingham, AL

February 18th, 2017, 5pm – DIVERSE NEW VOICES reading featuring Vanessa Hua, Ashley M. Jones, R.O. Kwon, and Dara Barnat- Laurel Book Store – Oakland, CA. 

February 23, 2017 – In Conversation with Doug Baulos – University Honors Program Alumni Lecture Series – Birmingham, AL

March 4, 2017 – Impossible Language Reading Series – Memphis, TN

March 25, 2017 – SWAN Day Fundraiser with Sister City Connection – Birmingham, AL

March 27, 2017 – In Conversation with Anthony Grooms – Georgia Center for the Book – Atlanta, GA

March 28, 2017 – Avid Bookstore – Athens, GA

April 1, 2017 – Poetry in the Bandshell – O, Miami Festival – Miami, FL

April 6, 2017 – Teen Poetry Workshop – Homewood Public Library – Homewood, AL

April 27, 2017 – Lawrence University – Lawrence, Wisconsin

June 1, 2017 – Hub City Bookshop – Spartanburg, SC

June 2, 2017 – Converse College – Spartanburg, SC

June 24, 2017, 10:30 AM – Hoover Public Library – Hoover, Alabama

June 26-30 – Writing Together Summer Day Camp – Spartanburg, SC

July 2, 2017 – Writing as a Political Act: Social Justice and Poetic Activism – Alabama Writer’s Conclave – Hoover Public Library – Hoover, AL

July 20, 2017, 6pm – Three Poetas: Bookwooks Albuquerque with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello and Jane Lin – Albuquerque, New Mexico

July 22nd, 2017 – Booked on 25th Bookstore with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello – Ogden, Utah

September 2, 2017 – Decatur Book Festival – Decatur, GA

September 13, 2017 – UAB Writers’ Series – Birmingham, AL

September 20-22 –  Wonders of Writing Symposium at Spartanburg Community College – Spartanburg, SC

September 30, 2017 – 100 Thousand Poets for Change Birmingham – Birmingham, AL

October 14, 2017 – 3pm – Southern Festival of Books – Nashville, TN

October 16-20 – The Conversation Literary Festival – Oxford, MS – Tuscaloosa, AL – New Orleans, LA

October 27, 2017 – Peace and Justice Studies Association Conference – Project Space Social Justice Exhibit and Poetry Reading – UAB – Birmingham, AL

November 2, 2017 – Open Mouth Reading Series – Fayetteville, AR

November 3-4 – CD Wright Women’s Conference – University of Central Arkansas – Conway, AR

-2016-

December 21st, 7:00pm – Shine Bright: A Poetry Reading in Celebration of the Winter Solstice – Desert Island Supply Company – Birmingham, AL

December 2nd, 7:00pm – MAGIC CITY GOSPEL Birmingham Release Party – Alabama School of Fine Arts – Birmingham, AL

September 24th, 1:00pm – 100,000 Poets for Change Birmingham – Desert Island Supply Company – Birmingham, AL

July 16, 7:00pm- Murky Personal Histories, Conspiracy Theories and Art Trolls – Bluestockings Bookstore – New York, NY

July 15, 2016, 7:00pm – Murky Personal Histories, Conspiracy Theories and Art Trolls – Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop – New York, NY

March 12th, 7:00pm – Lost in the Letters Reading Series – Atlanta, GA

March 17th, 6:00pm – The Women Gather – Birmingham Civil Rights Institute – Birmingham, AL

March 29th-April 2nd – Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference – [PANK] table 1056

April 25 – SHIFT series with the Sister City Connection – Birmingham, AL

April 30th – Slash Pine Poetry Festival – Tuscaloosa, AL

May 12th, 6:30pm – Magic City Storytellers – The Clubhouse on Highland – Birmingham, AL

-2015-

September 18th, 7:00PM – NYU Reading Series – Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards Reading

October 16th, 7:00PM – Nitty Gritty Magic City Reading Series

November 8th, 7:00PM – Nitty Gritty Magic City Reading Series

November 11th, 3:30PM – University of Montevallo Reading Series

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