Events
Upcoming:
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Kew and Willow Books - In-Person BOOK LAUNCH with Open Mic
Friday, Sept. 19, 2025 7-8:30 p.m.
81-63 Lefferts Boulevard,
Kew Gardens NY 11415
www.kewandwillow.com
Word Thursdays
October 9, 2025 7-8 p.m.
Online reading featuring Laurel Benjamin and Susan Michele Coronel, Hosted by Lynne Kemen,
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Well-Versed Words - Featured Reader with online series
April 12, 2026 5:30 p.m.
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Past:
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January 23, 2025
Sheila-Na-Gig Online reading hosted by Editor-in-Chief Hayley Mitchell Haugen, with readers featured in the Winter 2024 edition of the journal.
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October 10, 2024
Bright Hill Press' Word Thursdays online reading, , featuring Lynne Kemen, Rebecca Surmount, Susan Michele Coronel. The twice-monthly program features writers locally and worldwide, including poetry writers, fiction writers, journalists.
Watch VIDEO.
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July, 2024
Yetzirah Poetry Conference open reading
Recording available here: https://vimeo.com/995859485
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June 9, 2024
Online reading, Mom Egg Review Issue 22 Launch Reading.
The recording of the reading is available on the @merliterary YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/nBVsNe9cRAg.
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Spring, 2024
Words with You Poetry Open Mic – online reading
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2024
DADA Bar / Newtown Literary event - open mic reading
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November, 2023
Nassau County Poet Laureate Society, Oceanside Public Library, Oceanside, NY, Anthology Book Launch
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August, 2023
Hudson Valley Writers Center, Published Student Reading
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July, 2023
Inflectionist Review — online reading for journal contributors
May, 2023
Massachusetts Poetry Festival reader — opening night as winner of First Poem Award, and off-site open mic
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2023
Oceanside Library open mic online reading
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2023
Rattle magazine — open mic online reading
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2022
Maple Grove Cemetery — memorial reading of original poem in collaboration with flutist and composer Naomi Rabinowitz
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2022
The Poetry Lab – online reading
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2022
Liquid Arts Network — online reading
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2022
Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) offsite open mic reading sponsored by Wednesday Night Poetry
2022
South Florida Poetry Journal — online reading for contributors
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2022
Bang on a Can Poetry Slam — online reading
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2021
Wednesday Night Poetry online reading
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2019-2023
Queens Public Library, open mic participant
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2017
Risk of Discovery Reading Series — Featured reader, Blue Cups Cafe, Woodside, NY, 2017
2015
Astoria Bookshop, Astoria, NY—Featured reader, Newtown Literary Journal issue launch
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