Book fairs – Book clubs – Museums – Classrooms – Festivals – Workshops - TV

Topics:

• EmilyDickinson and The Help
• Emily Dickinson’s Irish Wake: A closet Irish Catholic?
• Emily’s Vice for Immigrant Voices
• Writers Who Bake: hands-on cooking with Emily’s recipes
• Museums & the Unseen: Revitalizing Visitor Interest
• Kitchen as Artistic Pathway: What Emily Wrote in her Pantry
• The Nanny: the writer’s first space for knowledge
• Faulkner’s & Dickinson’s Debts to Their Nanny
• “Send me something drawen on paper”: Maid Margaret Maher & Poet Emily Dickinson Write Together
• My Stove and I: Personal Life as Pathway to the Story
• Word – Objects (book-making workshop with writing students)
• Invisible Work: Maid in America
• What Tanton, Beck & the American Coalition for Immigration Reform Could Learn from Emily Dickinson
• How Black English & Hiberno English Affected Emily Dickinson’s Lyrics
• What’s Class Got to Do With it? Architecture of the Unseen

I’m happy to consider discussing other topics related to my areas of expertise. My fee is determined by type of organization, preparation time required and how many days of travel and residency are involved. Further information.

RADIO & ON-LINE

[Please excuse us until all links to audio recordings are made]

Seattle: Library Podcast

Michigan: Interview with Shelley Irwin “Morning Show” WGVU FM 88.5 and 95.3

Madison: Interview with Brenda Murphy The Idea Exchange WBEV AM 1430

WBOI/WBNI/WQSW Interview with host Deborah Godwin-Starks “Let’s Talk”

Louisiana: KEEL Radio Interview with host David McMillian “Strategies for Living” : Listen

Arkansas: KUAF Radio Interview with host Kyle Kellams for Ozarks at Large

The World: Voice of America interview with Faiza El-Masry: “Servants Enhanced Work of Renowned American Poet”

CT & NY: Second Saturday host Bob Johnson. WPKN: Listen to show

North Carolina & Virginia to the World: The Alvin Jones Show: host Dr. Alvin Augustus Jones. WCBQ-WHNC-AM. Listen to the podcast

Morning Show: host Ed Jones. KBEM

California Wine Country: Morning Edition: host Jeff Schechtman. KVON: Listen

Central California: Turning Pages: host Guy Rathbun. KCBX: Listen to the MP3 [coming!]

Texas: Here & Now: Dan Skinner. Texas Public Radio

Minnesota: Real Good Words: host Heidi Holtan. KAXE Listen to podcast

Open Mind: host Cecelia Skidmore. WGVU: Listen or download podcast

NY & New England: The Roundtable: host Joe Donohue. WAMC  Listen to podcast

Oregon: The Jefferson Exchange: host Geoffrey Reilly. Jefferson Public Radio – Post your comments

Cape Cod: The Point: host Mindy Todd . WCAI. Listen!

IN PERSON

San Francisco:  InsideStoryTime

Eugene: Public Library

Portland: Central Public Library -  Podcast coming soon

Seattle: Central Library -  book sales by Elliot Bay Books – Podcast

Redwood City: Public Library with Keplers Books

San Francisco: Arts & Culture Salon, SFPL Excelsior Branch

Louisville, KY: Carmichael’s Bookstore

St. Louis University of Missouri, Center for International Studies

Rotterdam: To Serve: Internationale Keuze – Rotterdamse Schouwburg

Oxford: Rothermere American Institute: Emily Dickinson International Society

San Francisco: University of California: “Emily Dickinson, Science, and Servants”

Washington DC: Politics & Prose Bookstore

San Francisco: American Literature Association – “The Poet in the Kitchen”

Oakland, CA: Diesel, A Bookstore – intimate book party

Santa Rosa, CA: Copperfield’s Books

San Francisco: Irish Literary & Historical Society

San Francisco:  SF Public Library with sponsor: African American Center [vodcast coming soon]

South Yarmouth Library with co-sponsor: Books By the Sea

Emily Dickinson Museum – Emily Dickinson, Household Work, and Poetry: An Afternoon of Domesticity

Glucksman Ireland House with sponsors: Merchant’s House Museum & NYU English Department – Emily Dickinson’s Irish Wake

New York Public Library Jefferson Market Branch Library

Brandeis University with co-sponsors: Women’s and Gender Studies & English Department – “Someone’s in the  Kitchen with Dinah…& it’s Emily Dickinson”

Connecticut Historical Society - Hartford, CT

Brown University Bookstore- Providence, RI

New Haven Free Public Library – New Haven, CT

Poetry at Albany Library – Visiting Writer, Sneak preview of Maid as Muse

Spalding University: Visiting Writer, “Introduction to Poetry as Literature” Professor Merle Bachman

Mt. Holyoke College: Visiting Scholar, Gender Studies, Professor Martha Ackmann

University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Visiting Scholar, History, Professor Bruce Laurie

Poetry Center San José:  Featured Speaker, An Emily Dickinson Evening of Music and Conversation, 2003 Review by Molly Schwartzburg

Tipperary Institute: Featured Speaker, A Celebration of Tipperary

San Carlos Charter Learning Center: Work-shop Leader, Book-making at Coit Towe

Twelfth Graduate Irish Studies Conference: Speaker, Plenary Address

Stanford University: Speaker, Institute for Gender Research

San Francisco Public Library:  Featured Speaker, Emily Dickinson in the company of friends: a birthday celebration

Hampshire College: Featured Speaker, Margaret Howard Memorial Lecture

Hampshire College: Work-shop Leader, mixed forms workshop, Writing Program

The Mead Art Museum: Gallery Talk

University of California, Berkeley: Visiting Writer, Professor Faith Barrett

Small Press Distribution & New College of California: Panelist and Performer, Artists and Motherhood: On Work, Identity and Creation