Readings & Workshops
SELECTED PAST READINGS/PRESENTATIONS:
NDN Girls Book Club x Garbage Tale Vintage, May 11, 2024, 11am-5pm, Rapid City, South Dakota.
AWP 2024 readings with Indigenous Nations Poets; Kenyon Review/The American Poetry Review/ Adroit Journal/ Pleiades; Kansas City Public Library.
Indigenous Women Rising x The Ruby Event, San Francisco, CA: Jan. 20th, 2024.
NDN Girls Book Club Holiday Market, Mesa, AZ: Dec. 16-17, 2023
A Night of Indigenous Literary Stars, SLC, Utah: Nov 30, 2023
Under the Umbrella Bookstore, SLC, Utah; Author talk with Darcie Little Badger and Torrey House Press: Nov. 29, 2023
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ: Nov 16-18, 2023
National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Conference Keynote, November 2023
National Portrait Gallery: Kinsale Drake, 4pm, Nov 6th, 2023.
The Aldrich, Nov 3rd with Raven Halfmoon and NDN Girls Book Club and local Indigenous poets.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Felt Knowledge Festival with NDN Girls Book Club: October 17th, 2023
ASU Open Mic Host and Reading, Phoenix, AZ: September 28th, 2023
Keynote, Native Action Network Forum, Seattle, WA: September 15th, 2023
Poetry Reading, in honor of Maya Angelou, 4Kinship, Santa Fe, NM: August 19th, 2023
Shy Summer Market & Shy Natives, Albuquerque, New Mexico: August 18th, 2023.
Panelist, Protect the Sacred: Healing through Storytelling, Navajo Prep, Farmington, NM: August 3rd, 2023.
Keynote, UNITY Annual Conference, Washington, DC: June 30th, 2023.
Carnegie Hall Performance: June 8th, 2023.
Woodland Pattern Reading with Crisosto Apache: May 2023.
Today at Apple, Carnegie Apple Store x NDN Girls Book Club, Washington, DC: April 26th, 2023.
Yale College Poets Reading, Beinecke Library: April 25th, 2023.
NDN Girls Book Club Launch, PHX, AZ: April 22nd, 2023.
Salt River Zine Workshop, PHX, AZ: April 21st, 2023.
Northern Arizona Book Festival: April 2nd, 2023.
Book Talk w/ Danielle Geller, NDN Girls Book Club: March 23rd, 2023 @ 5pm PST/8pm EST.
AWP, Seattle, WA: March 9th-11th, 2023.
Indigenous Nations Poets Winter Fellows Reading: February 28th, 2023.
Birchbark Books online reading with In-Na-Po: January 19th, 2023.
Keynote & workshops with Muckleshoot Tribal School: Jan. 12-13th, 2023.
MC/Host, Lakota Nation Invitational Poetry Slam: Dec. 15th, Rapid City, SD.
Southern California Poetry Festival: November 20th w/ Tommy Pico and Moncho Ollin Alvarado.
Imagining Indigenous Futures in Creative Writing and Higher Education: November 15th, 7pm, via Zoom w/ Kimberly Blaeser, Heid E. Erdrich, Halee Kirkwood, and Amber McCrary. Free to the public.
Poetry reading at Left Bank Books: November 11th, 7pm w/ Gordon Henry and Heid E. Erdrich.
Global Indigenous Solidarities: A reading in partnership with the Yale University Art Gallery: November 3rd, 2022 w/ Danielle Emerson, Samah Fadil, and more.
BLACKLIST ME Pop-up Celebration, Junior High Los Angeles: October 20th, 2022
Poetry reading & workshop, Dartmouth College: October 16th, 2022
Emerging Beyond Genocidal Colonization Reading Series: October 13th.
Guest artist & poetry track leader, Dances with Words Poetry Festival, Rapid City, SD: October 7-10.
Poetry workshop, The Chapter House Los Angeles: August 27th, 2022
Beaded Water Poetry Reading with Layli Long Soldier, Boderra Joe, Taté Walker, Manny Loley, and more, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM: August 20th, 2022
Poetry performance, NDN Collective event, Santa Fe, NM: August 19th, 2022
Poetry reading with Native women & 2S writers, The Ruby San Francisco: August 9th, 2022
Keynote speaker, 2022 Governor’s Native American Summit, University of Utah: July 28th, 2022
Poetry reading, Emerging Diné Writers’ Institute: July 26th, 2022
“The Poetics of Platonic Love” (poetry workshop), Emerging Diné Writers’ Institute: July 26th, 2022
Zine & poetry workshop, The Ruby San Francisco: July 19th, 2022
Praise poetry workshop, San Francisco Botanical Gardens: July 16th, 2022
Poetry performance & night of Native music, The Nile Theater, PHX, AZ: July 2nd, 2022
Hummingbird Heart Zine Reading & Zine Fest, Palabras Bookstore (Poetry reading): July 1st, 2022
PEN America: Joys of Queerness & the World, poetry reading @ Palabras Bookstore: June 25th, 2022
Reading w/ Taté Walker (The Trickster Riots), Abalone Mountain Press & Inspired by Diné Bizaad: June 19th, 2022
Hummingbird Heart Zine Reading, Junior High Los Angeles: June 10th, 2022
Reading with Heid E. Erdrich, Brooklyn Public Library Indigenous Poets Series: May 19th, 2022
Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program Festival, “As It Has Always Been,” winner of the Young Native Playwrights Award: May 18th, 2022
PEN World Voices Festival, “The Word for the World is Forest,” The Huntington Gardens: May 14th, 2022
Native Voices (Reading + Performance), International Indigenous Youth Council + NM Indian Affairs Department: May 13th, 2022
Indigenous Nations Poets Inaugural Fellows Reading, Library of Congress: April 29th, 2022
Native American Read-In, University of Washington: April 24th, 2022
Women, Theater, and the Archives: Cultivating, Preserving, and Showcasing Voices, Yale Beinecke Library: April 19th, 2022
Poet Warriors, National Museum of the American Indian: April 1st, 2022
Wellesley College (poetry reading & workshop), Wellesley, MA: November 2021
Yale University Indigenous Peoples’ Day (poetry reading): November 2021
Protect the Sacred 2021 Native Youth Summit (reading & workshop): September 2021
Art, Memory & Healing, Blank Space ABQ (reading & workshop): August 2021
Poetry in Color, Los Angeles County Museum of Art: April 2021
NYU Gallatin, Refractions of a Present Future (poetry performance): April 2021
The Henry Miller Library Virtual Poetry Series, Henry Miller Memorial Library: January 2021
Voices of Hwoldzil (poetry reading), October 2020
CHILDREN OF THE Nááts'íilid (poetry reading): June 2020
“Stories, Sovereignty, and Imagining Forward,” International Festival of Arts & Ideas, June 9th 2020
50 Years of Women in Yale College Performance, Fall 2019
University of Utah (poetry reading), First Nations Voting Rights Conference: October 2019
Native Americans in Philanthropy Summit (reading & youth keynote): September 2019
NSPP Ceremony (poetry reading), National Museum of the American Indian: August 2019
Bears Ears Summer Gathering (poetry reading): July 2019
Waging Words: A Night of Poetry by Indigenous Women, These Days LA: July 2019
Bridged Beats Arts and Music Festival (poetry reading), Los Angeles: June 2019
Aspen Ideas Festival (poetry performance), Aspen, CO: June 2018
Grand Performances Los Angeles (poetry performance): June 2018
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards (poetry performance), Carnegie Hall: June 2018
Featured Poetry Reading at Birchbark Books, Minneapolis MN: April 2018
Featured Poetry Performance & Workshop, Boise Art Museum, ID: April 2018
Scholastic Reading (poetry reading, keynote), Rediscovered Books, ID: April 2018
Native Women’s Voices through Poetry, The Main Museum Los Angeles: March 2018
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SELECTED WORKSHOPS (LEADING)
Praise poetry workshop/ Writing about music, The Chapter House Los Angeles: August 27th, 2022
Zine-making workshop with Tutcint Health Leadership Program, Pukuu Cultural Community Services, August 24th, 2022
Pressed flowers & the body: Zine-making, Tea at Shiloh, August 11th, 2022
“The Poetics of Platonic Love” (poetry workshop), Emerging Diné Writers’ Institute: July 26th, 2022
Indigi-zines & Zine-making Workshop, The Ruby San Francisco: July 19th, 2022
Wellesley College, Writing About Home, November 2021
Protect the Sacred 2021 Native Youth Summit, Storytelling Workshop, September 2021
Changing Wxman Collective poetry workshop, August 2021
We R Native’s THRIVE Native Youth Conference, poetry and zine-making workshops, June 2021
We R Native Springboard Storytelling Workshop, July 2020
Writing About Home, Changing Wxman Poetry Series, April 2020
First Peoples Fund & Dances with Words Poetry Workshop, April 2020
Residency at Sherman Indian School (workshop series), February-May 2018