Selected Featured Reader Performance

New Jersey Education Association Convention.

Black Dog Books, Lafayette, NJ. Book Signing.

Moving Words: A Project Between Writers and Filmmakers, an ARTS By The People Project at the Quad Cinema. Bobe Wu, film director and Margaret won first place in the juried screening.

 WordShed NYC.  Host: Leah Elimeliah, at P & T Knitwear, 180 Orchard St NYC.

Paterson Poetry Festival: Words Around the World. Host: Talena Lachelle Queen. Great Falls Amphitheater Paterson, NJ, within the Great Falls National Park.

Paterson Poetry Festival: Words Around the World. Hosts: Talena Lachelle Queen & Felicia Sherelle.

Poetic Voices: A Night of Poetry at the Library. Host: Ray Cicetti. Mountain Lakes Public Library.

Brownstone Poets, featured reader, virtual (hosts: Patrica Caragon & Roxanne Hoffman)

Poetry at the Barn, Ringwood, NJ, (host: Karen Lee Ramos)

Eleventh Annual Hobart Festival of Women Writers, participating poet, Hobart, NY

Healing Voices: Caregiver Stories, Premier Stages, Kean University, Union, NJ, poems presented as monolouges, 2023 & 2024

Embracing our Environment, featured reader for Writing the Land, Hartford CT

Calling All Poets, featured reader, virtual (hosts: Mike Jurkovic & Greg Correll)

First Floor Walkup, featured reader, NYC (host Wayne Kral)

Storytelling in Prose & Poetry with Paul Rabinowitz at the Book House in Millburn, NJ

Quintessential Listening, Podcast interview and reading, Washington, DC (2023, 2024); host Michael Anthony Ingram

Poets with Purpose, podcast interview and reading, NYC (2023, 2024); host: Noel A. Figueroa

The Alternative New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza at the Westbeth Community Arts Center, West Village, NYC

Hosted Parkland Poets reading, Alberta Canada

Garlic & Arts Festival, featured reader, Orange, MA

Gateway City Arts Festival, featured reader, Human Error Publishing

The Lit Revue #7, Arlo NoMad Hotel, NYC

DMQ Review Salon, February 2023, recording

Italian American Writers Association, Jefferson Market Library, NYC

Poet Wednesdays, Barron Arts Center, Woodbridge, NJ

Royal Beauty, Arts by the People, Ekphrastic Anthology

Phoenix Poetry, Featured Reader, New York, NY

Poetry on the Terrace, Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York.

Poetry at Prospect Park, Boathouse, Brooklyn, New York.

Authors and Artists Festival, Writing the Land

Oceanside Library Poetry Series

Caesura Poetry Festival, with Ovunque Siamo

The Ant Bookstore and Café Poetry Readings

Jewish Currents Publication Reading participant. Java Love Café. Montclair, NJ,

Welcome the Sabbath Bride with Poetry and Song, Montclair, NJ.

The Art and Poetry of Teaching: guest poet, co-organizer. Montclair, NJ.

Real Literacy in Math and Science Classrooms, Hudson Valley Writing Project, keynote speaker.

Honors and News

Honorable Mention in the Allen Ginsburg Poetry Contest for “Benevenuto a Roma” (2024), “Anguish” (2023), “Unlocked Door” (2021)

Named poetry editor for the Platform Review, an online literary journal

Poem, “Cookies” nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Originally appeared in Lips Poetry Magazine.

Ekphrastic Residency with Arts By The People.

Semi-Finalist in the inaugural Laura Boss Narrative Book Contest.

Contributor to the New York Public Library’s 30 Days of Poetry, video reading of “Musty Old House.”

“Sleeping” and “Pandemic Living 101” poems included in the New Jersey YMCA State Alliance Community Conversations: Pandemic Perspectives, NJ’s COVID-19 Storytelling Project. Featured reader at Building a Culture of Health Conference, Atlantic City. Interviewed for NJ Spotlight for my contributions.

Writing Full Tilt residency, Maureen Jones

Tiferet Poem-a-thon participant

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

Alpha Epsilon Lambda Honor Society

Selected Video Recordings

NYC Poetry Festival, 2024. “Bricks, Curtains and the Sunday Comics.”

“Unlocked Door,” “Strictly Enforced,” “News of the Day,” and “Undocumented Roots,” Poetry of Protest and Struggle.

Windblown II poems.

New York Public Library’s 30 Days of Poetry, “Musty Old House.”

Workshops, Speaking Engagements

Eleventh Annual Hobart Festival of Women Writers, workshop leader, “Writing the Politics of Climate Change into Poetry.”

International Women Writers Guild (IWWG), workshop leader: “Quiet the Mind so the Heart Can Write,” “Using the Feminist Gaze in Ekphrastic Writing”

The Platform Open Mic, host and workshop leader

Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, “The Narrative Impulse,” panelist

Stockton University Tour of Poetry, Otto Bruyns Library, workshop leader

Women in Publishing Summit, conference workshop leader

Real Literacy in Math and Science Classrooms, Hudson Valley Writing Project, keynote speaker

Writer’s Room Center Director, Montclair Public Schools