Upcoming Events

No appearances currently scheduled while I work on San Francisco’s first Emily Dickinson marathon and write about my grandmother going toe to toe with the Ku Klux Klan in Hillsdale, New Jersey.

Past Events

RADIO & OnLINE

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: City College American Literature Class & English Literature Club

Seattle: Modern Language Association

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