Events

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Featuring

Features

2/21/2026 – Poesía for the People
10/30/25 – Lyrical Flames
9/5/2025 – Fresh Fridays Open Mic
5/4/2025 – 4th Annual Pomona Valley Poetry & Book Fest
4/26/2025 – Miriam’s Garden
5/19/2024 – 3rd Pomona Valley Poetry & Book Fest
2/24/2024 – Miriam’s Garden
10/14/2023 – LitHop Fresno                      
4/22/2203 – Neenach Poetry Festival
4/13/2023 – Trenches Full of Poets Reading Series
1/20/2023 – The Post Up at Casa Verde LA
12/4/2022 – Four L.Á. Poets In Orange County
11/20/2022 – Fiesta at Sims Library
11/19/2022 – Saturday Afternoon Poetry
7/14/2022 – Trenches Full of Poets Reading Series
4/16/2022 – 2nd Annual Jasmines & Poetry Festival
2/26/2022 – 2nd Annual Culver City Book Festival
11/20/2021 – Sims Library of Poetry Bookfair
10/16/2021 – LitHop Fresno Reading: Writing of Place
6/19/2021 – Saturday Afternoon’s Poets and Artists Housing Alliance Reading
12/5/19 – Tonalli Thursdays
11/15/19 – Friday Night Poetry: They’re Just Words
6/6/2019 – Dulce Stein Presents at The Neutra
2/22/2019 – Non-Standard Lit w/Derek D. Brown
2/20/2019 – Mini Feature: Sacred Grounds Open Mic w/Derek D. Brown
2/17/2019 – Sunday Reading Series w/Derek D. Brown
2/2/2019 – Hot Off the Presses
1/13/2019 – Roar Shack
12/22/2018 – Poetry y Pan
10/26/2018 – Tía Chucha’s Open Mic: Night of Music & Spoken Word
10/20/2018 – Saturday Afternoon Poetry
10/16/2018 – Redondo Poets
9/27/2018 – Anansi Writers Workshop
9/1/2018 – Release party for my chapbook Concrete Paradise
8/2018 – Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts
1/2018 – The Table Reading Series
1/2018 – Writers Resist
4/2017 – La Palabra Poetry
7/2016 & 10/16 – Three Generations on a Stage
10/2016 – Saturday Afternoon Poetry
8/2015 – Tía Chucha’s Open Mic: Night of Music & Spoken Word

Hosted

1/29/2026 – Los Angeles Literature Presents: A Daxson Publishing Reading
12/14/25 – Los Angeles Literature Presents: A Season to Speak, A Community Reading
6/23/20225 – Poets Say ICE Out of LA at Beyond Baroque
3/28/2025 – Moderated AWP Conference Panel “Creating Literary Community in an Isolating Landscape”
3/20/2025 – Co-hosted “Trenches Full of Prose” w/Jesse Tovar
1/26/2025 – Riot of Roses Presented by Los Angeles Literature
12/7/2024 – Los Angeles Literature Presents an Afternoon with Riot of Roses
9/13/2024 – Co-hosted “Trenches Full of Prose” w/Jesse Tovar
3/21/2024 – Co-hosted “Trenches Full of Prose” w/Jesse Tovar
9/14/2023 – Co-hosted “Trenches Full of Prose” w/Jesse Tovar         
8/10/2023 – Co-hosted “Trenches Full of Prose” w/Jesse Tovar
8/6/2023 – Moderated “Younger Political Poets of Southern California”
3/3/2023 – Our Stories: Four Latinx Writers Read From Their Work
2/16/2023 – Celebrating Black Voices
3/11/2020 – DSTL Arts Reading
9/4/2019 – Los Ángeles Turns 238!
4/29/2019 – Three Writers of Color and A Host

Writing is Not a Luxury

2/11/2023 6/10/2023 Casa Verde LA, Monthly

“Los Angeles: Your City” Workshop

4/23/2022 – 6/11/2022 – Sims Library of Poetry
12/7/2019 – Sideshow Books
8/15/2018 – 826LA Mar Vista
10/13/2016 – Trade School Los Angeles
8/2016 – DSTL Arts
4/6/2014 – Hammer Museum
2013 – 826LA Mar Vista

“Your Place”/Learn To Write Your Place Workshop

10/8/2019 – Mt. San Antonio College
7/2/2019 – 1888 Center, Orange, CA
5/4/2019 – Culturama at Mt. San Antonio College