PAST EVENTS
2024
January 27, 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PST)
Word Women: Out with the Old
Workshop for the Cancer Support Community South Bay (for cancer patients and survivors)
Virtual Event
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February 8, 5:00 pm-7:00 pm (CST)
Braving the Body AWP Launch
Unity Hall
707 W 47th Street
Kansas City, MO
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February 24, 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PST)
Word Women: Beyond the Canvas
Workshop for the Cancer Support Community South Bay (for cancer patients and survivors)
Virtual Event
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March 30, 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PST)
Word Women: Welcoming the Weird & Wild
Workshop for the Cancer Support Community South Bay (for cancer patients and survivors)
Virtual Event
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April 25, 5:00 pm (PST)
Braving the Body Virtual Launch
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April 27, 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PST)
Word Women: Poetry Remix
Workshop for the Cancer Support Community South Bay (for cancer patients and survivors)
Virtual Event
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May 23, 4:30 pm-6:00 pm (PST)
A Hundred Pitchers of Honey reading for Braving the Body Virtual Event
May 25, 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PST)
Word Women: Fun with Form
Workshop for the Cancer Support Community South Bay (for cancer patients and survivors)
Virtual Event
POSTPONED
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July 27, 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PST)
Word Women: Fun with Form (The American Sonnet)
Workshop for the Cancer Support Community South Bay (for cancer patients and survivors)
Virtual Event
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August 31, 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PST)
Word Women: Fun with Form (The Pantoum)
Workshop for the Cancer Support Community South Bay (for cancer patients and survivors)
Virtual Event
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September 28, 1:30 pm-3:00 pm (PST)
Word Women: Fun with Form (The Sedoka)
Workshop for the Cancer Support Community South Bay (for cancer patients and survivors)
Virtual Event
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October 26, 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PST)
Word Women: Fun with Form (The Hermit Crab)
Workshop for the Cancer Support Community South Bay (for cancer patients and survivors)
Virtual Event
2023
January 28, 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PST)
Word Women: From Pain to Poem
Workshop for the Cancer Support Community South Bay (for cancer patients and survivors)
Virtual Event
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March 9, 10:35-11:50 am (PST)
Writing through the Pain: The Faces of Chronic Illness in Contemporary Literature
AWP Panel with Allison Blevins, Emily Hockaday, and Eshani Surya
Seattle Convention Center
Seattle, WA
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March 25, 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PST)
Word Women: Writing the Body
Workshop for the Cancer Support Community South Bay (for cancer patients and survivors)
Virtual Event
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April 1, 12:00-1:00 pm (PST)
Origin Stories: In Conversation with Pamela K. Johnson
Billie Jean King Main Library
Long Beach, CA
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May 21, 4:00-5:00 pm (PST)
Poets in Pajamas Reading Series with Athena Nassar
Sundress Publications
Virtual Event
May 27, 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PST)
Word Women: Writing toward the Light
Workshop for the Cancer Support Community South Bay (for cancer patients and survivors)
Virtual Event
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June 24, 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PST)
Word Women: Discovering Poetry in Unexpected Places
Workshop for the Cancer Support Community South Bay (for cancer patients and survivors)
Virtual Event
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July 29, 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PST)
Word Women: Art & Poetry
Workshop for the Cancer Support Community South Bay (for cancer patients and survivors)
Virtual Event
August 26, 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PST)
Word Women: The Poetry of Science
Workshop for the Cancer Support Community South Bay (for cancer patients and survivors)
Virtual Event
September 20, 4:00-5:30 pm (PST)
Braving the Body Reading
Virtual Event
October 28, 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PST)
Word Women: What's in a Word?
Workshop for the Cancer Support Community South Bay (for cancer patients and survivors)
Virtual Event
2022
October 29, 12:00-2:00 pm (PST)
Storms in Our Chest: From the Heart to the Page
Workshop for the Youth Poet Laureate Program
Billie Jean King Main Library
Long Beach, CA
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October 15, 3:00-5:00 pm (PST)
Impermanence: Stories of Rupture and Repair (Opening Reception)
Billie Jean King Main Library
Long Beach, CA
​May 15, 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PST)
Word Women: A Hop, Skip, & a Jump--Moving from Trauma to Art
Virtual workshop for WE RISE L.A.
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​April 5, 6:00 pm (PST)
Wilkinson Public Library
Virtual Event
2021
November 21, 10:00 am (PST)
Word Women: Radical Revision Workshop
Virtual Event
October 24, 7:30 am (PST)
Word Women: One-Day Poetry Writing Retreat
Virtual Event
September 17, 5:00 pm (PST)
Reading for Arts Council for Long Beach Group Exhibition
Romeo Chocolates
CANCELED due to COVID
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​September 16, 7:00 pm (PST)
Reading for The Canyon Poets
Virtual Event
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July 25, 2:30 pm (PST)
Book launch with Romaine Washington and Emily Alta Hockaday
Lit240!--Long Beach Literary Arts Center
Virtual Event
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​July 15, 4:00 pm (PST)
Radar Poetry Issue 30 Launch Party
White Whale Books
Virtual Event