Previous Events

Thursday, April 5, 2012

7 p.m., Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet, Houston, Texas  77005

Local poets celebrated National Poetry Month with readings from their published work and chapbooks.  I read “Stations of the Cross Park, Mount St. Francis Friary” and other poems.  Co-hosted by hosted by Mutabilis Press.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

1:30 - 2:45 p.m., Private Dining Room 2, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor
Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois

This was a panel of poets, including Katherine Hoerth, Laura Cesarco Eglin, and Maria Miranda Maloney.  We are all associated with Mouthfeel Press and proposed the panel to the conference organizers. 

Border Bodies — Womanhood In Verse: Our diverse panel features women poets from the Texas/Mexico Border and other borders dedicated to broadening poetic conversations about borderland identities, womanhood and the border, and the borderland body. In any contested space i.e., geographic, cultural, sexual, racial, or literary, women must claim their own definitions of womanhood, their physical/sexual/spiritual bodies, and their poetic languages with their own definitions of aesthetics and relation to culture and history.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

4:30 – 5:30 p.m., Southeast Hall, Table K17 for PALABRA/Con Tinta

AWP Conference Bookfair, Chicago, Illinois

My first book signing for Entre la claridad!  

Saturday, February 25, 2012

2 p.m., Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet, Houston, Texas  77005

This was a group reading for the anthology Improbable Worlds, recently published by Mutabilis Press.  I read my poem “Bat Bridge.”  

Saturday, November 5, 2011

2:00 – 3:30 PM, Discovery Green Park, Downtown Houston:
HPL Express Discovery Green 1500 McKinney, R2, Houston, Texas 77010

This was my second live reading for Public Poetry, recently voted Best Reading Series 2011.  I read with Sam Amadon, Robin Davidson, and Dave Parsons (The Texas State Poet Laureate).  The special guest was musician Don Sanders.

You can view a schedule of the other monthly readings in this series here.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

12 noon, KUHA’s program “The Front Row” on 91.7 FM and 11 p.m. on KUHF

I read a couple of poems and answered a few questions about why I write poems, bilingual poems in particular.  Dave Parsons also read two poems and discussed how he promotes poetry in Texas and why he writes eulogies.  

You can listen to the program here.

Friday, October 14, 2011

7:30 – 9:30 CDT, Sin Fronteras Café Reading and Open Mic live inworld for the Second Life virtual environment of the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum

This reading took place in a virtual environment; all participants and audience members were on-line using avatars.  

Other readers included Laura Cesarco Eglin, Juan Manuel Portillo, Cassandra Love, Nancy Lorenza Green, and Katherine Hoerth.

Read my post about this event: Book Publication and Virtual Reading Experience.