Poetry Readings (selected)

August 2017
University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS
with Candice Wuehle

April 2017
Visiting Writers Series, Sterling College | Sterling, KS

April 2016
Free Verse Editions Reading | AWP Conference, Los Angeles, CA

October 2015
MFA Visiting Writers Series, University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS
with graduate student Meagan Youngdahl

October 2015
Watermark Books | Wichita, KS
with Tod Marshall

April 2015
Free Verse Editions Reading | AWP Conference, Minneapolis, MN

January 2015
Taproom Poetry Series | Lawrence, KS
with Kyle Schlesinger and James Yeary

October 2014
SpoPo Reading Series | Spokane, WA

April 2014
People’s Co-Op Bookstore | Vancouver, BC
with Catherine Wagner

April 2014
Spokane GetLit! Festival | Spokane, WA
with Alice Derry and Susan Rich

March 2014
Special Collections Reading Series, Simon Fraser University | Vancouver BC
with Sina Queyras

February 2014
Free Verse Editions Reading, AWP Conference | Seattle, WA

February 2014
Book Launch for Pilgrimly, Russell Books | Victoria, BC
with invited guests Hugh Steinberg and Anita Lahey

April 2010
The Truth and Life of Myth: A Robert Duncan Symposium, Chicago
with Stephen Collis, Joseph Donahue, and Brian Teare

October 2007
Poetics Plus Reading |Buffalo, NY
with Timothy Donnelly

October 2007
Rocky Mountain MLA Conference | Calgary, Alberta, BC

September 2007
Triple Launch Extravaganza: P-Queue, Pilot, & Damn the Caesars | Buffalo, NY

April 2005
Mid-American Review, 25th Anniversary Reading, AWP Conference | Vancouver, BC

October 2003
Women’s Caucus Luncheon, Rocky Mountain MLA Conference, Missoula, MT

October 2002
Second Wind Reading Series |Missoula, MT
with J. Robert Lennon

April 2001
Djerassi Resident Artists Program | Woodside, CA

Invited Lectures & Conference Presentations (selected)

“To Wander or to Dwell: Contending with Gendered Constructions of the Citizen/Subject in Poems about Nature,” Bethel College Faculty Speaker Series, Walking the Talk: Listening in our Disciplines | North Newton, KS, April 2024.

“Devotion through Difference: What Poetry and a College Friendship from the 1930’s Might Teach Us about Living in a Polarized Time,” Bethel College Honors Convocation, given by the recipient of the Ralph P. Schrag Distinguished Teaching Award | North Newton, KS, October 2019.

“Extending the Document: Rukeyser, Rankine, and the Political Work of Documentary Poetics,” American Association of University Women | North Newton, KS, May 2016.

“The Poetics of Error: Accident, Serendipity, Willful Misprisions, and Process over Perfection in Contemporary Poetry,” Guest Lecture, University of Victoria, Fine Arts 100: Creative Being, Professor Christopher Butterfield | Victoria, BC, March 2014.

“Oppen’s ‘We’ and the Poetics of the First Person Plural,” Guest Lecture, University of Victoria, Graduate Poetry Course, Professor Nicholas Bradley | Victoria, BC, October 2011.

“‘To Trace the Visionary Company of Love’: Hart Crane and the Stubborn Productions of Affective Community” and “‘Lost Yet Poised’: Hart Crane’s Improvisations,” Modernist Studies Association | Buffalo, NY, October 2011.

“Cruising the Archives with Duncan’s ‘Night Scenes,'” The Truth and Life of Myth: A Robert Duncan Symposium | Chicago Art Institute, April 2010.

“Derivations in Robert Duncan’s ‘Night Scenes,’ Small Press in the Archive Lecture Series | SUNY Buffalo Special Collections, February 2009.

“Doublings of Desire and New Ontologies in Hart Crane’s White Buildings,” Rocky Mountain MLA Conference | Calgary, AB, October 2007.

“Objects and the Beyond: The Poetics of Charles Simic,” Rocky Mountain MLA Conference | Coeur d’Alene, ID, October 2005.

“Burdens of Proof: Interrogating Queer Readings of My Antonia,” Rocky Mountain MLA Conference | Boulder, CO, September 2004.

Guest Workshops (selected)

Poetry Workshop, University of Oklahoma, undergraduate creative writing course, professor Todd Fuller | Norman, OK, October 2023.

Poetry Workshop and Craft Talk, Sterling College | Sterling, KS, April 2017.

“Teaching Claudia Rankine’s Citizen“: Pedagogical Workshops for Faculty and Graduate Students at the University of Kansas teaching Citizen as part of KU’s common read and/or first-year experience courses | Lawrence, KS, August 2017.

Poetry Workshop, Newton Creative Writer’s Fellowship (community writers’ group) | Newton, KS, October 2016.

Poetry Workshop, University of Kansas, undergraduate poetry workshop, professor Joseph Harrington | Lawrence, KS, October 2015.