Talks & Readings
UPCOMING
MARCH 25
VERSEFEST OTTAWA
I’ll be reading at Club SAW as part of the VERSeFest/Riverbed collaborative event; 9pm // Thanks as always to rob mclennan, Ellen Chang-Richardson, and nina jane drystek
MARCH 29
AWP Los Angeles
“Writing Mixed Race”: I’ll be talking about A Brief History of Fruit with other writers of complicated racial identity // Gratitude to Latifa Ayad
JUNE
ACLA
I’ll be talking about my role in the Delisted collective as part of an ACLA seminar on the ecopoetics of displacement // Many thanks to Ada Smailbegovic
Recent
Feb 26 ‘25
Carleton University
A workshop and talk from The Academic Avant-Garde in the PhD Speakers Series // Gratitude to Sarah Brouillette and Jody Mason
Apr 18
Hathaway Brown School
Reading some poetry and discussing university! // Many thanks to Matt Rager
Mar 14-17 ‘24
American Comparative LIterature Association
“Overthinking it: Hermeneutics Against Knowledge”
Dec 1
Critical Theory WOrkshop, Duke University
A works-in-progress talk at the Literature Department at Duke // Gratitude to the graduate students and Nima Bassiri
Nov 3-5
American Studies Association
“Myung Mi Kim and the Subject of History” // Many thanks to organizer Daniel Kim
OCT 2
Penn State University
A reading sponsored by the Grucci Poetry Fund and the Asian American Reading Group // Endless thanks, for this and for many other things, to Aldon Nielsen and Julia Kasdorf
MAR 16-19
American comparative literature association
“Poetry’s dialectical legibility” at the “Let’s Talk About Poems” seminar in Chicago, IL // Many thanks to Natalia Cecire and Virginia Jackson for organizing
Jan 5-8 ‘23
Modern language Association Convention
“From the head of Zeus: Poetry in the Postprofessional MFA” // Many thanks to Amish Trivedi