Selected Featured Reader Performance

Participated in 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, Orange, MA

Gateway City Arts Festival, Human Error Publishing

The Lit Revue #7, Arlo NoMad Hotel, NYC

DMQ Review Salon, February 2023, recording

Quintessential Listening, Podcast, Washington, DC

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

“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.

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

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

Honorable Mention in the 2023 Allen Ginsburg Poetry Contest for “Anguish”

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

Honorable Mention, Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest for the “Unlocked Door” and “Anguish”

Tiferet Poem-a-thon participant.

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

Alpha Epsilon Lambda Honor Society

Video Recordings

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

Windblown II poems.

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

Workshops, Speaking Engagements

International Women Writers Guild (IWWG), “Quiet the Mind so the Heart Can Write” 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

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