Selected Featured Reader Performances
WordFest, Longview, WA
Helvetia WInery, Helvetia, OR
Hocus at Rose City Book Pub, Portland, OR
Fixed and Free Quarterly
Time to Arrive
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
Italian American Writer’s Association (IAWA) Board Member
Honorable Mention in the Allen Ginsburg Poetry Contest for “Benevenuto a Roma” (2024), “Anguish” (2023), “Unlocked Door” (2021)
Guest 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
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
Write on the Sound, workshop leader (October 2026)
Eleventh and Twelfth Annual Hobart Festival of Women Writers, workshop leader
International Women Writers Guild (IWWG), workshop leader
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
