04/28/2023 Poetry Reading: Ephraim Tyler Award (Poet of the Year), Robinson Film Center, Shreveport, LA.

 

03/23/2023 Waccamaw Library Poetry Series Reading.

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10/29/2022 Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge. Poet Laureate Poetry Panel Reading.

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9/22/2022 Story Brew Cafe, Natchitoches, LA. Reading 6-7:30 PM.

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4/27/2022 Agora Borealis, Shreveport. Live reading/Wild Juice launch, 5-6:30 PM.

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12/08/2021 Beausoleil Books, "Pour It and Poet" reading. Lafayette, LA.

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3/11/2021 LSUP Remote Author Series. Wild Juice Reading.

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3/05/2021 Red River Poetry Society, Centenary College, inaugural poet. Online reading.

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4/13/19 NOLA Stars Writers, LSUS, 10-12 AM.

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4/6/19  Litchfield Tea & Poetry (with David Havird) Waccamaw Branch Library, Pawley's Island, SC, 3 PM.

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2/15/19 Love Poems to Planet Earth, Meadows Museum, Centenary College, Shreveport, 5-7 PM.

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9/8/18 Shreveport Writers' Club, Shreve Memorial Library, Broadmoor, 10-12 AM.

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4/18/18 Caddo Parish Poet Laureate Presentation, Artspace, Shreveport, 5:30 PM.

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4/11/18 "Just Listen to Yourself." Louisiana poets celebrate poetry month at the LA State Library, Baton Rouge, LA, noon.

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4/7/18 Keynote Speaker, General Federation of Womens Clubs, Natchez, MS, 8 AM.

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3/24/18 Tennessee Williams Literary Festival. Panel 1: The Changing Landscapes of Childhood (Lightningstruck), Panel 2: Nasty Women Poets, an Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse.

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3/17/18 YWCA Women's History Month Poetry Writing Workshop: "Outside History: Celebrating the True Heroines of Our Lives," 2-4 PM.

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3/7/18 Holcombe Book Club, Spartanburg, SC, noon-2 PM.

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3/5/18 Lightningstruck Book Talk, Hobcaw Barony, Georgetown, SC, 1:30-3:30 PM.

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2/8/18 Nasty Women Poets Anthology Book Launch and Reading, Meadows Museum, Shreveport, 5:30-7:30 PM.

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11/12/17 "Get Litt on Dalzell," Moveable Feast in historic Shreveport neighborhood, 4-7 PM.

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10/28/17 Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge, LA. Readings and signings from Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse.

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10/10/17 Mary Jane Malone Lecture, Caddo Magnet High School PAC, Shreveport, 6:30 PM. Free and open to the public.

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9/23/17 B-Fest Teen Book Festival, Lightningstruck signing and fiction workshop, 4-6 PM.

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9/12/17 and 9/13/17 Fiction Book Club, Shreve Memorial Library, Broadmoor Branch.

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7/24/17 Pulpwood Queens of Northeast Texas Book Club.

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7/1/17-7/8/17 Chautauqua Institution (NY) Summer Prose Workshop.

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3/27/17 Lamar County Library, Darlington, SC. Lightningstruck Book Talk.

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3/25/17 Burry Bookstore, Hartsville, SC. Writing Workshop: Novel/Memoir, 12-2 PM.

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3/23/17 Waccamaw Library, Pawley's Island, SC. Lightningstruck Book Talk, 10-11 AM.

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3/18/17 Laurens County Library, Laurens, SC. Writing Workshop: Novel/Memoir, 10 AM-Noon.

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3/8/17 Louisiana Library Association Conference, Lafayette, LA. Author's book table, 2-3 PM.

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1/12/17-1/15/17 The Pulpwood Queens Annual Convention, "Girlfriends Weekend," Nacogdoches, TX, featuring Lightningstruck.

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1/6/17 Book Club Luncheon, Bistro Byrons, Shreveport. 11 AM.

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12/1/16 Meadows Museum of Art, Centenary College. Lightningstruck reading and signing. 5:30 PM.

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10/29/19 Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge, LA. Readings and signings from Lightningstruck and Hardlines: Rough South Poetry.

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10/9/16 LSUS Shreveport, Reading and Signing, 11 AM.

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10/17/16 WNBA Bibliofeast, Charlotte, NC.

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10/14/16 Marion County Library (Mullins Branch), Mullins, SC. Brown Bag Lunch Reading and Signing, 12:30-1:30 PM.

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10/12/16 Friends of the Marion County Museum, Marion, SC. Luncheon Book Talk and Signing, 11:30-1 PM.

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10/5/16 Centenary College of LA, English Dept. Colloquium, Reading and Signing, 12-1 PM.

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10/3/16 Broadmoor Library, Shreveport, LA, Lightningstruck Reading and Signing, 6-7:30 PM.

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9/27/16 Lemuria Books, Jackson, MS. Signing 5 PM. Reading 5:30 PM.

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9/26-27/16  Belhaven University, Jackson, MS (with David Havird). Lecture, workshop, reading.

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9/16/16-9/18/16  Southern Independent Booksellers Association Discovery Show, Savannah, GA.

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9/9/16  Lightningstruck book signing at Barnes & Noble, 6646 Youree Dr., Shreveport, 5-7 PM.

 

9/1/16  Publication date for Lightningstruck.

 

​7/28/16  Artist's talk, Lightningstruck, the Novel. Critical Mass 4, Artspace, Shreveport, 5:30 PM.

 

7/21/16  Exhibit 0pening, Lighningstruck, the Novel. Artspace, Shreveport, 5:30-8:30 PM.

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4/6/16  "House of Poetry:" Workshops, Armstrong Browing Library, Baylor University, Waco, TX (with David Havird.)

 

10/3/15  "The Poetry Buffet," Latter Library, New Orleans: Poetry Reading and Book Signing (with David Havird and Jack Bedell.)

 

9/30/15  Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA: Poetry Reading and Book Signing (with David Havird.)

 

4/25/15  The Garden of the Fugitives reading and book signing, Cayman Brac Public Library, Cayman Brac, BWI, 10 AM.

 

4/21/15  "Just Listen to Yourself." Louisiana poets celebrate poetry month at the LA State Library, Baton Rouge, LA, April 21, 2015, 11 AM.

 

4/11/15  Signing (with David Havird), The Agora Borealis, 421 Lake St., Shreveport, LA

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1/29/15  Louisiana Tech, Ruston, LA, Poetry reading and discussion (with David Havird), 5:30 PM.

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1/15/15  "Poet of the Ordinary" Photography Exhibit, Meadows Museum of Art, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA, Poetry Reading (with David Havird), 5:30-7 PM.

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1/8/14  English Department Colloquium, Centenary College of Louisiana.Bynum Commons, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA. Poetry Reading, 11:30 AM.

 

1/8/14  11th Annual Louisiana Book Festival. State Library, Baton Rouge, LA. Reading and Book Signing, 11 AM reading, 12 PM book signing.

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