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July 7, 2022 – flywheel Reading Series feat. Wakefield Brewster, Pages Books, Calgary.

April 3, 2022 – Launch of Gap Riot Press Season 8 feat. Penn Kemp, Sharon Thesen, Brian Dedora, Gina Lynee Rose, VII, and Nisha Patel (online).

October 28, 2021 – Launch of Frost & Pollen by Helen Hajnoczky feat. Weyman Chan and Ian Samuels, Shelf Life Books (online).

January 9, 2020 – flywheel Reading Series feat. Cobra Collins, Justin Mager, and Emily Ursuliak, Pages Books, Calgary.

November 16, 2019 – Launch of Air Salt by Ian Kinney, feat. Colin Martin, Suzette Mayr, and Paul Zits, Shelf Life Books, Calgary.

October 25, 2019 – The People’s Poetry Festival Art Opening, Loft 112, Calgary.

October 2018 – The People’s Poetry Festival feat. Wakefield Brewster, Loft 112, Calgary.

September 25, 2018 – A Reading with Rajinderpal S. Pal feat. Nikki Sheppy, Paulo da Costa and Richard Harrison, Shelf Life Books, Calgary.

August 29, 2018 – Launch of A Violent Streak by Stephanie Warner, feat. John Creary. Shelf Life Books, 7:00 PM.

April 5, 2018 – CANOPY feat. Margaret Christakos. Nickle Gallery, University of Calgary, 5:30 PM.

September 27, 2017 – Launch of Leap Seconds by Paul Zits, feat. Tyler Hayden. Pages Books on Kensington, 7:30 PM.

April 1, 2017 – Launch of then/again by Michelle Elrick. Shelf Life Books, 2:00 PM.

December 2, 2016 – Launch of The Calgary Renaissance. Pages Books on Kensington, 7:00 PM.

October 1, 2016 – Relational Innovations: Creative Writing as Social Practice. Literary Reading feat. symposium delegates. Lot 102, 7:00 PM.

April 27, 2016 – The Writers Guild of Alberta Presents: Wine & Poetry Pairings in Celebration of National Poetry Month, feat. Derek Beaulieu, Rosemary Griebel, Nikki Sheppy, Bob Stallworthy, Natalie Simpson, Sheri-D Wilson and Nick Thran, Metrovino, 7:30 PM.

February 18, 2016 – Single Onion reading series with Nikki Sheppy and Liz Howard. Shelf Life Books, 7:00 PM.

July 3, 2015 – A Celebration of Calgarian Writing with Braydon Beaulieu, Weyman Chan, Helen Hajnoczky, Richard Harrison, and Naomi K. Lewis, Lougheed House, Calgary, 6:30-8:30 PM

May 2, 2015 – Authors for Indies Day, Shelf Life Books, Calgary, 4:00-6:00 PM

February 20, 2015 – Reading with Marc Herman Lynch and W. Mark Giles. Streaming Cafe, Kelowna, BC. 7:30 PM.

February 20, 2015 – Reading and talk with Jake Kennedy’s creative writing class. Okanagan College, Kelowna, BC. 10:00 AM.

January 21, 2015 – Woolf’s Voices 7 with Amanda Hiebert, Melanee Murray, Yamuna Flaherty, Mira Black, Annie Da Silva, and Samantha Jones. Shelf Life Books, Calgary. 7:30 PM.

January 8, 2015 – flywheel with Rod Moody-Corbett, Nikki Sheppy, Kevin Stebner, and Julia Williams. Pages Books on Kensington, Calgary, 7:30 PM.

November 7, 2014 – Poetry reading with Sonnet L’Abbe, Gary Barwin, Jay MillAr, Stephen Cain, Lillian Allen, a. rawlings (feat. Sachiko Murakami, Natalie Walschots, and Eric Schmaltz),  derek beaulieu, Gregory Betts, Stephen Scobie, Adeena Karasick, Helen Hajnoczky, and Ron Silliman. Avant Canada Conference, Niagara Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario, 7:30 PM.

November 5, 2014 – Panel: The Thinkership of Conceptual Literature with derek beaulieu, Christian Bök, Helen Hajnoczky, and Darren Wershler, Avant Canada conference, Rodman Hall Art Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario, 1:30 PM.

October 17, 2014 – Poetry Cabaret with Dennis Lee, Nikki Reimer, and Lisa Robertson, Wordfest, Theatre Junction Grand – Studio, 8:00 PM. Cost: $15

October 14, 2014 – Writers Book Club with Arun Lakra, Mark Lavorato, and Ian Williams, Wordfest, Festival Hall, 12:00 PM. Cost: $15

October 3, 2014 – Reading and talk with derek beaulieu’s Literature and Community class, Alberta College of Art and Design, 12:30 PM.

September 18, 2014 – Single Onion reading series, with Nikki Reimer and Greg Bechtel. Shelf Life Books, 7:30 PM.

August 20, 2014 –  Writer’s Block, CJSW radio. Discussing and reading from Thrum. 8:00 PM. Listen to the interview here.

July 27, 2014 – 100 Tender Buttons: a celebration of Gertrude Stein, with Nikki Sheppy, Rachel Shabalin, Anj Fermor, and Helen Hajnoczky. Loft 112, Calgary. 7:00 P.M.

May 16, 2014 – Writing Group for the Illiterate and Visually Impaired: Generative Praxis and Community, panel presentation with Jani Krulc, Marc Lynch, Colin Martin, and Nikki Sheppy. CCWWP 2014 Canada’s Writing Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 10:45 AM.

May 10, 2014 – Loft 112 Grand Opening. Readings every hour from 10:00 – 6:00. I’m reading at 3:00 PM with Paul Zits.

May 8, 2014 – Launch of Ground Rules: the best of the second decade of above/ground press 2003-2013, with Julia Williams and derek beaulieu, Shelf Life Books, 7:30 PM.

April 30, 2014 – Vancouver Talonbooks poetry launch, with Cecily Nicholson, Nikki Reimer, M.A.C. Farrant, and Catriona Strang. Western Front. Doors at 7:30 PM, reading at 8:00 PM.

April 28, 2014 – Calgary Talonbooks poetry launch, with Cecily Nicholson, Nikki Reimer, M.A.C. Farrant, and Catriona Strang. Palamino Smokehouse. Doors at 7:30 PM, reading at 8:00 PM.

March 19, 2014 – Play Chthonics reading series at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, with Jonathan Ball. Green College, 5:00 PM. Listen to the reading here.

March 15, 2014 – Scrawl-a-thon fundraiser, Loft 112, 4:00 to 10:00 PM.

November 1, 2013 – Reading and talk with derek beaulieu’s Poetry and Community Class, Alberta College of Art and Design. Listen to the talk here.

October 26, 2013 – Launch of Shy: An Anthology, Memorial Park Library.

May 22, 2013 – Launch of Poetry is Dead Mental Heath: Inside/Outside Issue, Shelf Life Books.

April 25, 2013 – filling Station 20th Anniversary Collective Retrospective, Royal Canadian Legion.