⬅︎ Readings

2020s
• New Social Environment, Brooklyn Rail, September 30, 2020. Online reading and conversation with Tom Glynn and Charlotte Kent.
• 3Rs Poetry, New Orleans, March 24, 2121. Online reading with Rodrigo Toscano and Rodger Kamenetz.
• Poetry & Ecology, New Orleans Poetry Festival, April 13, 2021. Online panel discussion with James Sherry, Elizabeth Gross, Saba Syed Razvi, Brenda Iijima, Charles Alexander, and Evelyn Reilly.
• New Orleans Poetry Festival,  April 20, 2022,  with Bill Lavender, Indran Amirthanayagam, Rosemary Daniell, Aicha Bassry, Norman Fischer and Mark Statman.
• Bird & Beckett Bookstore, San Francisco, August 4, 2022, with Alan Bernheimer and Neeli Cherkovski, .
• Reading from The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-1980 , online with discussion, October 6, 2022.
• Woolsey Court, Berkeley , January 6, 2023, with Tony Iantosca and Brian Ng.
• Segue Series at Artists Space, New York, December 2, 2023, with Anselm Berrigan.

2010s
• Bridge Street Books, Washington DC, April 12, 2011.
• Pennsylvania State University, April 13, 2011.
• Fergie’s Pub, Philadelphia, April 15, 2011. Reading with Ryan Eckes and Kate Greenstreet.
• Poets House, New York, April 16, 2011. Reading with The Grand Piano authors, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Tom Mandel, Ted Pearson, Bob Perelman, Ron Silliman and Barrett Watten.
• Emily Harvey Gallery, New York, April 17, 2011. Reading with Anne Tardos.
• Canessa Park Gallery, San Francisco, July 25, 2011. Reading and conversation with Avery Burns.
• Boise State University, Idaho, April 12, 2013.
• Home of the late poet Lee Grue, New Orleans, April 18, 2013. Reading with Freddi Williams Evans.
• Fun Party Reading Series, Austin, Texas, April 25, 2013.
• Counterpath, Denver, April 26, 2013. Reading with Michael Friedman.
• Tulsa University, Oklahoma, September 25, 2014.
• Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, September 27, 2014.
• The Taproom, Lawrence, Kansas, September 28, 2014.
• The Green Arcade bookstore, San Francisco, October 8, 2015. Reading with Aaron Simon. 
• Segue Reading Series, Zinc, New York, November 7, 2015. Reading with Lee Ann Brown and Drew Gardner’s Poetics Orchestra.
• Bill Berkson Memorial Tribute, McRoskey Mattress Company, San Francisco, September 24, 2016.
• Ted Greenwald Memorial Reading, The Poetry Project, St. Mark’s Church, New York, September 2016.
• Ted Greenwald Memorial Reading, Moe’s Books, October 5, 2016. Reading with Lyn Hejinian, Renny Pritikin, Laura Moriarty, Julien Poirier, Corinne Fitzpatrick, Norman Fischer, Alan Bernheimer, and Tom Raworth (recorded message).
• Moe’s Books, Berkeley, February 13, 2017. Reading with Norman Fischer.
• False Starts Reading Series, The Lab, San Francisco, October 16, 2017. Reading with Jean Day and Tonya Foster.
• Sponge Reading Series, Oakland, March 31, 2018. Reading with Isabel Balée.
• Tom Raworth Memorial Reading, University of California, Berkeley, April 6, 2018
• Iklektic, London, August 3, 2018. Reading with Miles Champion.
• Vanne Bistro Café, July 2, 2018. Reading with Ted Pearson.
• Chax Press reading, Passages Bookshop, AWP, Portand, Oregon, March 28, 2019. Reading with Charles Alexander, David Abel, Sarah Rosenthal, Trace Peterson, and Susan Schultz.
• Roof Books reading Passages Bookshop, AWP, Portand, Oregon, March 29, 2019. Reading with Sara Larsen and Kyle Schlesinger.
• Moe’s Books, Berkeley, May 29, 2019. Reading with Sara Larsen.
• The Green Arcade bookstore, San Francisco, June 2, 2019. Reading with James Sherry.
• Segue Reading Series, Zinc, New York, October 5, 2019. Reading with Xtian W.
• Unnamable Books, Brooklyn, October 6, 2019. Reading with Uche Nduka.
• Frank O’Hara’s Last Lover, Sam’s Morning Glory Diner, Philadelphia, October 8, 2019. Reading with Pattie McCarthy and Rachel Blau DuPlessis.

2000s
• New College of California, marathon reading from the works of Gertrude Stein, 2000.
• Holloway Poetry Series, University of California, Berkeley, 2000. Reading with Julie Carr.
• Plymouth University, Exeter, UK, Feb 2000. Reading with Tony Lopez.
• Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, May 2000. Reading with Lisa Samuels.
• Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, April 2001. Readings with Lyn Hejinian, Michael Gizzi, Geoffrey Young, Rae Armantrout, Clark Coolidge, Michael Davidson, and Michael Friedman.
• The Lab, San Francisco, 2003.
• Moe’s Books, Berkeley, 2003. Reading with Norman Fischer.
• The Addison Street Anthology, Berkeley Repertory Theater, 2005. Reading with Robert Hass and others.
• The Poetry Project, St. Mark’s Church, New York, April 6, 2005.
• Down City Poetry Series,  Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design, Tazza Café, Providence, April 13, 2005. Reading with Carla Harryman.
• Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia, April 14, 2005. Reading with Jenn McCreary.
• Blue Danube Café, San Francisco, January 26, 2006. Reading with George Albon.
• Jazzschool, Berkeley, 2007. Reading with Al Young, Michael McClure, David Meltzer and others.
• Vanitas #2, Oakland, 2007. Reading with Bill Berkson, Duncan McNaughton and others.
• “Poetry of the 1970s” conference, University of Maine, Orono, June 2008. Performance with Barrett Watten and Steve Benson.
• Segue Reading Series, Bowery Poetry Club, November 22, 2008. Reading with Bernadette Mayer.
• Poetics Research Bureau, Los Angeles, January 24, 2009. Reading with Diane Ward.
• State University of New York, Buffalo, March 30, 2009.
• The Press Club, Toronto, March 31, 2009. Reading with Jay Millar.
• The Woodward Line, Detroit, April 1, 2009.
• Danny’s Tavern, Chicago, April 15, 2009. Reading with Andrew Joron.
• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 16, 2009. Reading and conversation with Maria Damon.
• Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, April 19, 2009. Reading with Bill Berkson.
• Small Press Traffic series, California College of Art, San Francisco, April 25, 2009. Reading with Julie Patton.
• Poets House, New York, 2009. Talk on Clarice Lispector.
• University of Arizona, October 22, 2009. Reading and conversation with Laynie Browne.
• POG Reading Series, The Drawing Room, Tucson, October 24, 2009.
• Xavier University, Cincinnati, October 27. Reading with Dana Ward.
• Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, October 29, 2009.
• Poets House, New York, November, 2009. Talk on Clarice Lispector.
• The Poetry Project, New York, November 5, 2009. Reading with Ted Greenwald.

1990s
• Incognito Lounge, Canessa Park Gallery, San Francisco, October 19, 1990.
• Bridge Street Books, Washington, DC, August 1990. ComputerLand Poets reading with Ron Silliman, Bill Luoma and Alan Bernheimer.
• Musikaliska Akademiens, Stockholm, September 8, 1990, Russian-American reading by 5+5: Dragomoshchenko, Kondakova, Kutik, Parshchikov, Zhdanov, Coolidge, Robinson, Hejinian, Day, Palmer
• University of Helsinki, September 1990: Dragomoshchenko, Kondakova, Parshchikov, Zhdanov, Coolidge, Robinson, Hejinian, Day, Palmer
• Writers Union, Leningrad, September 1990. Dragomoshchenko, Kondakova, Parshchikov, Zhdanov, Coolidge, Robinson, Hejinian, Day, Palmer.  
• Small Press Distribution, Berkeley, April 1991. Benefit reading for O/Two, an anthology.
• Barnes & Noble Books, Berkeley, December 1992.
• Segue Space, New York, May 23, 1993.
• Small Press Distribution, Berkeley, June 1993. Reading from Rome, a Mobile Home by Jerry Estrin.
• Small Press Distribution, Berkeley, December 1993. Bilingual reading of Ode on Visiting the Belosaraisk Spit on the Sea of Azov, and conversation with Russian poet Ilya Kutik.
• Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, Dec 1993. Book party with Mitch Highfill, Ron Padgett, Bob Perelman, Laurie Price, Michael Price, and Geoffrey Young.
• Copperfield Books, Sebastapol, CA, 1994. Reading with Jackson Mac Low.
• Diesel Books, Oakland, Oct 1994. Reading with Alan Bernheimer.
• Ear Inn, New York, May 1995. Reading with James Sherry.
• San Francisco Art Institute, Oct 1996. Michael McClure / Philip Whalen Duo-Birthday Celebration.
• New College of California, San Francisco, May 1996.
• Word x Music, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, June 1, 1996. Performance with poets Laura Moriarty, Norman Fischer and Leslie Scalapino, and musicians Glenn Spearman (tenor saxophone), Jim Routhier (guitar), and Donald Robinson (drums).
• Zen, Poetry, Music, Community, Jerry Brown We the People Theater, Oakland, September 20, 1996. Performance with Glenn Spearmann (tenor saxophone).
• Adobe Bookshop, San Francisco, August 1998. Reading with Gregory Fuchs and Brendan Lorber.
• Segue Performance Space, New York, March 1998. Reading with Erica Hunt.
• Canessa Park Gallery, San Francisco, Jan-Feb 1999. Reading with Linh Dihn.
• Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Nov 1999. Reading with Barrett Watten, Di Brandt, Carla Harryman, Glen Mannisto, Eugene McNamara, Gail Scott.
• The Scarab Club, Detroit, Nov 1999. Reading with Lee Ann Brown.
• State University of New York, Buffalo, November 10, 1999,
• Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, November 11, 1999
• The Mazer Theatre of the Educational Alliance, New York, 1999. Reading with Joe Elliott.

1980s
• “Song,” New Langton Arts, San Francisco, July 24, 1980. Essay and discussion.
• Cortland Corners, San Francisco, 1980. Reading with Carol Gallup.
• The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, 1983. Reading with Lorenzo Thomas.
• New College of California, San Francisco, March 1983.
• 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, Sept 1983. Panel on the future of the city, with Judy Grahn, Michael Palmer, and Wendy Rose.
• Segue Reading Series, Ear Inn, December 13, 1983. Reading with Lynn eDreyer.
• Canessa Park Gallery, San Francisco, March 1985. Reading with Tom Raworth.
• Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Nov 1987.
• Canessa Park Gallery, San Francisco, Oct 1988. Reading with Charles Alexander.
• San Francisco Zen Center, Phil Whalen Birthday Celebration Reading 1988
• Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, Berkeley, Feb 1989. Reading with Jean Day.
• Tucson Museum of Art, April 4, 1989. Reading with Lyn Hejinian.
• Occident Benefit Reading, University of California, Berkeley, November 1989. Reading with Steve Benson.

1970s
• The Sanctuary, Iowa City, early 70s. Reading with David & Maria Gitin.
• Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, Oct 1973. Reading with William Talcott.
• Poetry at Cody’s, Berkeley, Sept 1975. Reading with Robert Harris.
• Bolinas Community Center, 1976. Reading with Barrett Watten.
• The Poetry Project, St. Mark’s Church, New York, December 13, 1978. Reading with Jackson Mac Low.
• Segue Reading Series, Ear Inn, December 16, 1978. Reading with John Godfrey.
• Ploughshares Bookstore, Palo Alto, February 18, 1979. Reading with Steve Benson.
• KPFA 94.1 FM, July 1979. “In the American Tree: New Writing by Poets,” radio program hosted by Alan Bernheimer.
• Ed Mock Dance Studio Theater, San Francisco, 1979. Reading with Ted Pearson.