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In 2018
July 27-August 6: The Rainier Writing Workshop 2018 Residency [Pacific Lutheran University -- Tacoma, WA]
April 4-7: Annual Clemson Literary Festival: Visiting Writer Reading, with Glenis Redmond and Lily Hoang (Thursday, 4:00pm, 356 Sushi & Martini Bar); Festival Author Roundtable Discussion (Friday, 2:00pm, Student Center Chambers in the Union) [Clemson University]
March 7-10: AWP 2018 Conference & Bookfair: "Writing Fatherhood" (Thursday, 4:30pm) with Shane Seely, F. Douglas Brown, Steven Church, and Jarod Roselló; "Why [Not] Say What Happened?: On Writing Confessional Poetry" (Saturday, 1:30pm) with Rachel Mennies, Jericho Brown, Maggie Smith, and Natalie Diaz [Tampa, FL]
January 4-7: MLA 2018 Convention [New York, NY]
In 2017
July 20-23: West Virginia Writers' Workshop, Faculty [West Virginia University]
March 30-April 1: Southern Literary Festival [Fort Smith, AR]
February 8-11: AWP 2017 Conference & Bookfair [Washington, D.C.]
January 5-8: MLA 2017 Convention [Philadelphia, PA]
In 2016
October 21: The Conversation Literary Festival, "Teaching in the South," with Caroline Randall Williams and Derrick Harriell [New Orleans, LA]
October 15: Southern Festival of Books [Nashville, TN]
August/September: Vermont Studio Center Writer's Residency [Johnson, VT]
April 7: APOD National Poetry Month Reading [Auburn University]
April 2: "Against Palatable Writing: Dismantling an Inherent Problem in the Workshop" AWP Panel, with Zach VandeZande, Caitlin Pryor, Tanaya Winder, and Andy Briseño [LA Convention Center]
April 1: "Male Poets Writing Home and Hearth" AWP Reading, with John Hoppenthaler, Jon Pineda, and James Harms [LA Convention Center]
March 31: Literary F(r)iction Reading and Open Bar [These Days Bookstore & Gallery -- Los Angeles, CA]
March 30: Cave Canem's AWP Off-Site Benefit Fellows Reading [Elysian -- Los Angeles, CA]
March 22-25: PCA/ACA (Popular Culture Association | American Culture Association) Annual Conference [Seattle, WA]
March 15: Loyola University Reading [Baltimore, MD]
March 14: Loyola Blakefield Reading [Baltimore, MD]
March 13: "Verse for Hire: The Business of Poetry," PEN American Center Craft Session [Beverly Hills, CA]
March 10: For the Love of the City [The Reserve -- Los Angeles, CA]
January 7-10: MLA 2016 Convention [Austin, TX]
In 2015
November 12-15: Annual Conference of SLSA (Society of Science, Literature, and the Arts) [Rice University]
October 23: Revising the Storm named a Poetry Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
October 22: HWF Legacy Award Nominee Reading, with Ishmael Beah, Saladin Ambar, and Brian Gilmore [Politics & Prose | Busboys and Poets -- Washington, D.C.]
October 18: Split This Rock Sunday Kind of Love Reading Series, with Charlie Bondhus [Busboys and Poets -- Washington, D.C.]
July 24: Reading Allowed Discussion and Signing Event [University Bookstore -- Seattle, WA]
July 23: King's Books Poetry Reading, with Abigail Pollokoff and Catherine Bresner [King's Books -- Tacoma, WA]
May 5: Awarded Connor Faculty Fellowship from Fulbright College [University of Arkansas]
May 4: Awarded Teaching Improvement Grant Award from Fulbright College [University of Arkansas]
April 24: Oregon State University's Editorial Festival: Writing and Publishing a First Book, Featured Poet [Oregon State University]
April 20: Revising the Storm nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry -- other nominees include We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters by Brian Gilmore (Cherry Castle Publishing); Digest by Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books); The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon by Willie Perdomo (Penguin Books); Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press); and King Me by Roger Reeves (Copper Canyon Press)
April 12: Featured in the Immortality & Vulnerability Group Show, curated by Didi Menendez and Sergio Gomez [Zhou B Art Center -- Chicago, IL]
April 8-11: AWP 2015 Conference & Bookfair [Minneapolis, MN]
April 3-4: Mary E. Rolling Reading Series, with Robin Becker; First Book Festival, with Sarah Blake, Katherine Bode-Lang, William Woolfitt, and Rachel Mennies [Penn State University]
April 1: Poetry Reading [ Penn State Altoona | Edith Davis Eve Chapel -- Altoona, PA]
March 26: Oxford Conference for the Book: Craft Workshop, with F. Douglas Brown; and Poetry Reading, with F. Douglas Brown, Chiyuma Elliott, and Caroline Randall Williams [University of Mississippi]
February 25: Visiting Scholar and Speakeasy Reader [Virginia Tech University]
February 19: Public Reading and Public Presentation [Kansas State University]
In 2014
November: Cave Canem's New Works Reading Series, with Dawn Lundy and Arisa White [The New School -- New York, NY]; Interview w/ Kyle Kellams for Ozarks at Large (KUAF, National Public Radio - 91.3) [Fayetteville, AR]; Beyond Baroque Reading, with F. Douglas Brown [Literary|Arts Center -- Venice, CA]; The Poetry Lab: The 'Daddy' Poem Workshop and Stranded Artist Reading, with F. Douglas Brown [WE Labs -- Long Beach, CA]
October: 36th Annual Nimrod Conference for Readers and Writers: "Why Not Say What Happened? A New Case for Confessional Poetry" (Masterclass); "Editing and Publishing" (Q&A); and Invitational Reading & Book Signing, with Malinda Lo and Roxana Robinson [University of Tulsa]
September: Trobar Ric Reading Series, with Jenn Marie Nunes, Chiyuma Elliott, and Kristi Maxwell [Water Valley, MS]
July: Academy of American Poets Summer Reading Series [New York Public Library]
June: Attended Cave Canem's 19th Annual Poetry Retreat [University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg]
May: "Unfledged" and "King County Metro" featured on Verse Daily
April: Book Release Party for Revising the Storm and Sara Nicholson's The Living Method [Nightbird Books -- Fayetteville, AR]; Faculty appointment for the University of Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing and Translation announced; Revising the Storm featured on Library Journal Review's "Thirty Amazing Poetry Titles for Spring 2014"; Anne Halley Award Ceremony and Reading [Amherst Books -- Amherst, MA]
February/March: Interviewed for NPR member station KUAF's Ozark's at Large: Poetry, an Artform Worthy of 12 Months [Fayetteville, AR]; AWP 2014 Conference & Bookfair (Book Signing) [Seattle, WA]
January: MLA 2014 Annual Convention [Chicago, IL]; New Year's Day Poetry & Arts Reading Marathon [Fayetteville Underground -- Fayetteville, AR]
In 2013
December: Awarded The Massachusetts Review's 2014 Anne Halley Poetry Prize; Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Conclave; Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Sycamore Review
November: Verse + Vino Reading Series w/ Adam Clay [21c Museum Hotel -- Bentonville, AR]; Revising the Storm featured on Barbara Hoffert's "What's Coming for National Poetry Month in April? 28 Key Titles to Consider" in the Library Journal; Poetry & Poetics Panel, PAMLA [San Diego, CA]
June: Named finalist for Nimrod International Journal's Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry; Attended Cave Canem's 18th Annual Poetry Retreat [University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg]
May: Fourth Friday Poetry and Prose Series [Green Drake Art Gallery -- Millheim, PA]
April: Featured on Muzzle Magazine's "30 Under 30"; Selected by Adrian Matejka to receive First Prize in Poetry for the 2013 Dogwood Contest
March: Named finalist for Mississippi Review's 2013 Prize in Poetry; Art of Poetry Reading Series [Pincus Gallery of Art | Palmer Museum -- University Park, PA]; Sycamore Review Offsite AWP Reading: "From the Midwest to the Middle East," with recent contributors to Sycamore Review, including Cate Fricke (fiction), Kristin Robertson (poetry), Colin Winnette (fiction), and Cynthia Grier Lotze (poetry) [Cambridge, MA]
February: Awarded the 2013 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize for Revising the Storm -- BOA Editions will publish the collection, with a Foreword by Dorianne Laux, in April 2014
January: Selected by Nikky Finney to receive Sycamore Review's 2012 Wabash Poetry Prize; Named finalist for Southern Indiana Review's 2012 Mary C. Mohr Editors' Award
In 2012
September: Featured (with audio) in Toe Good Poetry's annual Indian Summer Series
June: Attended Cave Canem's 17th Annual Poetry Retreat [University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg]
April: Selected by Nicole Cooley to receive the 2012 Leonard Steinberg Memorial/Academy of American Poets Prize
In 2011
November: Named finalist for Sycamore Review's 2011 Wabash Poetry Prize
In 2010
April: Review of Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon's Open Interval (2009) featured on WPSU's "Book Mark"
July 27-August 6: The Rainier Writing Workshop 2018 Residency [Pacific Lutheran University -- Tacoma, WA]
April 4-7: Annual Clemson Literary Festival: Visiting Writer Reading, with Glenis Redmond and Lily Hoang (Thursday, 4:00pm, 356 Sushi & Martini Bar); Festival Author Roundtable Discussion (Friday, 2:00pm, Student Center Chambers in the Union) [Clemson University]
March 7-10: AWP 2018 Conference & Bookfair: "Writing Fatherhood" (Thursday, 4:30pm) with Shane Seely, F. Douglas Brown, Steven Church, and Jarod Roselló; "Why [Not] Say What Happened?: On Writing Confessional Poetry" (Saturday, 1:30pm) with Rachel Mennies, Jericho Brown, Maggie Smith, and Natalie Diaz [Tampa, FL]
January 4-7: MLA 2018 Convention [New York, NY]
In 2017
July 20-23: West Virginia Writers' Workshop, Faculty [West Virginia University]
March 30-April 1: Southern Literary Festival [Fort Smith, AR]
February 8-11: AWP 2017 Conference & Bookfair [Washington, D.C.]
January 5-8: MLA 2017 Convention [Philadelphia, PA]
In 2016
October 21: The Conversation Literary Festival, "Teaching in the South," with Caroline Randall Williams and Derrick Harriell [New Orleans, LA]
October 15: Southern Festival of Books [Nashville, TN]
August/September: Vermont Studio Center Writer's Residency [Johnson, VT]
April 7: APOD National Poetry Month Reading [Auburn University]
April 2: "Against Palatable Writing: Dismantling an Inherent Problem in the Workshop" AWP Panel, with Zach VandeZande, Caitlin Pryor, Tanaya Winder, and Andy Briseño [LA Convention Center]
April 1: "Male Poets Writing Home and Hearth" AWP Reading, with John Hoppenthaler, Jon Pineda, and James Harms [LA Convention Center]
March 31: Literary F(r)iction Reading and Open Bar [These Days Bookstore & Gallery -- Los Angeles, CA]
March 30: Cave Canem's AWP Off-Site Benefit Fellows Reading [Elysian -- Los Angeles, CA]
March 22-25: PCA/ACA (Popular Culture Association | American Culture Association) Annual Conference [Seattle, WA]
March 15: Loyola University Reading [Baltimore, MD]
March 14: Loyola Blakefield Reading [Baltimore, MD]
March 13: "Verse for Hire: The Business of Poetry," PEN American Center Craft Session [Beverly Hills, CA]
March 10: For the Love of the City [The Reserve -- Los Angeles, CA]
January 7-10: MLA 2016 Convention [Austin, TX]
In 2015
November 12-15: Annual Conference of SLSA (Society of Science, Literature, and the Arts) [Rice University]
October 23: Revising the Storm named a Poetry Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
October 22: HWF Legacy Award Nominee Reading, with Ishmael Beah, Saladin Ambar, and Brian Gilmore [Politics & Prose | Busboys and Poets -- Washington, D.C.]
October 18: Split This Rock Sunday Kind of Love Reading Series, with Charlie Bondhus [Busboys and Poets -- Washington, D.C.]
July 24: Reading Allowed Discussion and Signing Event [University Bookstore -- Seattle, WA]
July 23: King's Books Poetry Reading, with Abigail Pollokoff and Catherine Bresner [King's Books -- Tacoma, WA]
May 5: Awarded Connor Faculty Fellowship from Fulbright College [University of Arkansas]
May 4: Awarded Teaching Improvement Grant Award from Fulbright College [University of Arkansas]
April 24: Oregon State University's Editorial Festival: Writing and Publishing a First Book, Featured Poet [Oregon State University]
April 20: Revising the Storm nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry -- other nominees include We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters by Brian Gilmore (Cherry Castle Publishing); Digest by Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books); The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon by Willie Perdomo (Penguin Books); Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press); and King Me by Roger Reeves (Copper Canyon Press)
April 12: Featured in the Immortality & Vulnerability Group Show, curated by Didi Menendez and Sergio Gomez [Zhou B Art Center -- Chicago, IL]
April 8-11: AWP 2015 Conference & Bookfair [Minneapolis, MN]
April 3-4: Mary E. Rolling Reading Series, with Robin Becker; First Book Festival, with Sarah Blake, Katherine Bode-Lang, William Woolfitt, and Rachel Mennies [Penn State University]
April 1: Poetry Reading [ Penn State Altoona | Edith Davis Eve Chapel -- Altoona, PA]
March 26: Oxford Conference for the Book: Craft Workshop, with F. Douglas Brown; and Poetry Reading, with F. Douglas Brown, Chiyuma Elliott, and Caroline Randall Williams [University of Mississippi]
February 25: Visiting Scholar and Speakeasy Reader [Virginia Tech University]
February 19: Public Reading and Public Presentation [Kansas State University]
In 2014
November: Cave Canem's New Works Reading Series, with Dawn Lundy and Arisa White [The New School -- New York, NY]; Interview w/ Kyle Kellams for Ozarks at Large (KUAF, National Public Radio - 91.3) [Fayetteville, AR]; Beyond Baroque Reading, with F. Douglas Brown [Literary|Arts Center -- Venice, CA]; The Poetry Lab: The 'Daddy' Poem Workshop and Stranded Artist Reading, with F. Douglas Brown [WE Labs -- Long Beach, CA]
October: 36th Annual Nimrod Conference for Readers and Writers: "Why Not Say What Happened? A New Case for Confessional Poetry" (Masterclass); "Editing and Publishing" (Q&A); and Invitational Reading & Book Signing, with Malinda Lo and Roxana Robinson [University of Tulsa]
September: Trobar Ric Reading Series, with Jenn Marie Nunes, Chiyuma Elliott, and Kristi Maxwell [Water Valley, MS]
July: Academy of American Poets Summer Reading Series [New York Public Library]
June: Attended Cave Canem's 19th Annual Poetry Retreat [University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg]
May: "Unfledged" and "King County Metro" featured on Verse Daily
April: Book Release Party for Revising the Storm and Sara Nicholson's The Living Method [Nightbird Books -- Fayetteville, AR]; Faculty appointment for the University of Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing and Translation announced; Revising the Storm featured on Library Journal Review's "Thirty Amazing Poetry Titles for Spring 2014"; Anne Halley Award Ceremony and Reading [Amherst Books -- Amherst, MA]
February/March: Interviewed for NPR member station KUAF's Ozark's at Large: Poetry, an Artform Worthy of 12 Months [Fayetteville, AR]; AWP 2014 Conference & Bookfair (Book Signing) [Seattle, WA]
January: MLA 2014 Annual Convention [Chicago, IL]; New Year's Day Poetry & Arts Reading Marathon [Fayetteville Underground -- Fayetteville, AR]
In 2013
December: Awarded The Massachusetts Review's 2014 Anne Halley Poetry Prize; Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Conclave; Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Sycamore Review
November: Verse + Vino Reading Series w/ Adam Clay [21c Museum Hotel -- Bentonville, AR]; Revising the Storm featured on Barbara Hoffert's "What's Coming for National Poetry Month in April? 28 Key Titles to Consider" in the Library Journal; Poetry & Poetics Panel, PAMLA [San Diego, CA]
June: Named finalist for Nimrod International Journal's Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry; Attended Cave Canem's 18th Annual Poetry Retreat [University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg]
May: Fourth Friday Poetry and Prose Series [Green Drake Art Gallery -- Millheim, PA]
April: Featured on Muzzle Magazine's "30 Under 30"; Selected by Adrian Matejka to receive First Prize in Poetry for the 2013 Dogwood Contest
March: Named finalist for Mississippi Review's 2013 Prize in Poetry; Art of Poetry Reading Series [Pincus Gallery of Art | Palmer Museum -- University Park, PA]; Sycamore Review Offsite AWP Reading: "From the Midwest to the Middle East," with recent contributors to Sycamore Review, including Cate Fricke (fiction), Kristin Robertson (poetry), Colin Winnette (fiction), and Cynthia Grier Lotze (poetry) [Cambridge, MA]
February: Awarded the 2013 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize for Revising the Storm -- BOA Editions will publish the collection, with a Foreword by Dorianne Laux, in April 2014
January: Selected by Nikky Finney to receive Sycamore Review's 2012 Wabash Poetry Prize; Named finalist for Southern Indiana Review's 2012 Mary C. Mohr Editors' Award
In 2012
September: Featured (with audio) in Toe Good Poetry's annual Indian Summer Series
June: Attended Cave Canem's 17th Annual Poetry Retreat [University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg]
April: Selected by Nicole Cooley to receive the 2012 Leonard Steinberg Memorial/Academy of American Poets Prize
In 2011
November: Named finalist for Sycamore Review's 2011 Wabash Poetry Prize
In 2010
April: Review of Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon's Open Interval (2009) featured on WPSU's "Book Mark"