"What I try to do in reciting is to give whoever is listening an impression of how I felt when I wrote the piece. I try to paint the poem on the air."

—Gwendolyn Brooks

UPCOMING AND RECENT EVENTS

October 26-28, 2008
University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.

October 8-9, 2008
Trinity University, San Antonio, TX.

June 19-22, 2008
The 10th International Conference on the Short Story in English, "The Lonely Voice," Cork, Ireland.

June 5, 2008
DeAnza College, Cupertino, CA.

April 24-25, 2008
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with Helena María Viramontes

January 17-20, 2008
Key West Literary Seminar, "New Voices," Key West, FL.

November 7, 2007
Chicano & Latino Writers Festival/Friends of the St. Paul Public Library, St. Paul, MN.

October 11, 2007
Reedley College, Reedley, CA.

October 4-6, 2007
Santa Fe Short Story Festival, Santa Fe, NM

September 20, 2007
Finalist reading, Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize, Munster Centre, Cork, Ireland

June 27, 2007
Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, Houston, TX

June 27, 2007
Houston Community College, Houston, TX

June 14, 2007
National Arts Club, New York, NY, with Helena María Viramontes and Min Jin Lee.

May 22, 2007
Los Angeles Public Library/ALOUD Reading Series, "Telling Stories That Matter," Los Angeles, CA, with Helena María Viramontes

May 15, 2007
University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, with Helena María Viramontes.

May 14, 2007
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, with Helena María Viramontes.

May 11, 2007
College of the Sequoias, "Testimony, Declaration, and Witness," Visalia, CA, with Helena María Viramontes

May 7, 2007
Quetzal Quill at Cornelia Street Cafe, New York, NY, with poets Ada Limón and Cynthia Cruz

SELECTED PREVIOUS EVENTS

  • Arkansas Literary Festival, with Richard Blanco, H.G. Carrillo, Rene Saldaña, Jr., Willie Perdomo, and Liliana Valenzuela, Little Rock, AR, April 22, 2006

  • Associated Writing Programs Conference, "Maestros y Protegidos: A Reading by Latino Mentors and Their Proteges," with Helena María Viramontes, Judith Ortíz Cofer, Lorraine López, and Rich Yañez, Austin, TX, March 11, 2006

  • Saltonstall Literary Salon, with Helena María Viramontes and H.G. Carrillo, Ithaca, NY, February 12, 2006

  • Chicago Humanities Festival, "The Mexican-American Identity," Chicago, IL, November 12, 2005, with Luis Alberto Urrea, Rubén Martínez, and Brenda Cárdenas

  • Florida Center for the Literary Arts/Miami-Dade College, Miami, FL, November 9, 2005

  • MACLA (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana), San Jose, CA, October 21, 2005

  • California State University at Fresno, Fresno, CA, October 20, 2005

  • Pete's Candy Store, Brooklyn, NY, October 6, 2005

  • Nuyorican Poets' Cafe/New York University Latino Studies, "Language Manufraktured Here," New York, NY, September 27, 2005

  • The Cutting Room/Swink magazine, New York, NY, June 20, 2005

  • WordTheatre/Swink magazine, Los Angeles, CA, May 21, 2005, "The Comeuppance of Lupe Rivera," read by Wilson Cruz

  • The Bookery, Ithaca, NY, May 1, 2005

  • Cornell University Alumni Association, "The Cornell Mosaic: Celebrating Diversity, Advancing Inclusion," Ithaca, NY, April 30, 2005, with Victor D. LaValle and Fiona Cheong

  • Cambridge Public Schools/SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity), Cambridge, MA, April 14, 2005

  • Arkansas Center for the Book, Fayetteville Public Library, and the Arts Center of the Ozarks, "La Voz Latina! A Celebration of Latino Authors" Springdale, AR, March 18-19, 2005

  • National Public Radio, author interview and broadcast of "Skyshot," Selected Shorts, fall/winter 2004-5 season (broadcast October 2004)

  • California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, October 26, 2004

  • California State University at Northridge, Northridge, CA, October 25, 2004

  • Brooklyn Public Library, Latino Author Series, Brooklyn, NY, October 14, 2004

  • The New Short Fiction Series, Los Angeles, CA, September 10, 2004, "By the Time You Get There, by the Time You Get Back," "Not Nevada," and "Museo de Bellas Artes" read by Efrain Figueroa, David St. James, and Sally Shore

  • "Selected Shorts on Tour" for National Public Radio, J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, May 23, 2004, "Skyshot" read by Hector Elizondo

  • LGBT Center, New York, NY, April 22, 2004, with Aaron Hamburger and Rob Williams

  • Monkey Temple, Red Room Reading Series, New York, NY, April 13, 2004, with David Ebershoff

  • Associated Writing Programs Conference, "Latino Voices," Chicago, IL, March 24, 2004, with Rigoberto González, Sergio Troncoso, and Rich Yañez

  • The Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY, February 29, 2004, with Rigoberto Gonzalez

  • Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL, November 16, 2003