Upcoming Readings and Workshops:
2023:
Poetry Pairs, Bohemia, Feb. 15, 6 pm.
LIAG: Islip Arts Council, March 16, 1-2 pm, Talk and poetry reading from We are Not a Museum.
Writing to Heal: ongoing workshops once a month.
Young Authors Conference, Yorktown Heights BOCES, April 30, all day.
Conversations on Feminist Writing, National Organization for Women, September 19, 2020
Summer 2020:
Matwaala reading, organized by India Currents, July 2020.
Translations of Sharmila Seyyid's poems, Desi Feminists, July 5, 2020
Women Included Webinars, June through July, sponsored by the United Nations' Generation Equality France.
Feature, All Souls Church, July 11, 2020.
2018
Feature, Blue Duck Bakery, 5/27/18
Book launch, The Setauket Neighborhood House, 7/27/18
Feature, Oceanside, 9/14/18
Feature, Nassau Community College, 10/14/18
Feature, NYWW, 2/7/18
Feature, The Barn, Huntington, 9/21/18
Poetry Workshop: Bringing the Historical into the Personal, Emma Clark Library, 11/3/16, 7-9 pm.
"A Poetics of Walls: A Feminist Deconstructive Praxis," National Women Studies Conference, Montreal, Nov. 10, 2016.
Featured reader, Queens Library, Dec. 11, 2 pm.
Featured reader at PPA sponsored reading, Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Lake Grove, March 14, 2013
Featured reader at Sachem Library, April 30, 2013.
Featured reader at Empire State, April 21, 2013.
Featured reader with Cornelius Eady at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, November 2, 2013
Readings:
Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, NJ
Mamilla Poetry Festival, Ramallah
Matwaala Poetry Festival, Austin, TX
Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, NY
Valley Contemporary Poets, Tarzana, CA
Euterpe, NY
Open Eyed Dreams, Art Gallery, Eranakulam, Kerala, India
Gallery North, Long Island, NY
Graphic Eye, NY
Tamarind Art Gallery, NYC
Ear Inn, NYC
Ander Mose Studio, Hancock, PA
Unitarian Church, Stamford, CT
National Women's Studies Association
Washington State Psychological Association
National Art Therapy Association
South Asian Literature Association
Hunter College, NYC
Dowling College, NY
Pioneer Bluffs, Flint Hills, Kansas
ACP/PAC, Chicago
Workshop Sites:
Walt Whitman Birthplace Assn.
Block Island Poetry Project
Nassau Community College
Emma S. Clark Memorial Library
Strength for Life, NY
Maria'Z Hope Foundation
Stony Brook University Hospital Breast Cancer Support Group
Workshops:
Writing the Ghazal
Writing the Personal into the Historical
Telling Stories of Liberation and Transformation
Family Photographs as Inspiration for Poetry
Yoga-Poetry Workshop
Writing the Ode
Ekphrastic Poetry
Visualization and Writing
Presentations:
Write Against the Right: Violence against writers in South Asia, Panel discussion, NWSA, 2019.
Multimedia presentation of poetry, dance, and visual art: Pramila Venkateswaran and Jayashree George, 2017.
"Keep Yoni Coming: Unbinding VaginaSpeak," NWSA, San Francisco, 2012.
"Art as Resistance: Countering Hegemonies," NWSA, Atlanta, 2011.
"Witnessing and Recording: Archiving Conversations, Denver, 2010.