poet | teacher | artist
community-engaged
cultural studies scholar

Readings & Workshops

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Selected Invited Poetry Readings

  • Nature Poetry Night for Writing the Land: Maine | Auburn, ME | 16 November 2022 | more here

  • Word. Blue Hill Literary Arts Festival | Blue Hill, ME | 22 October 2022 | more here

  • Trans/Space is Expanding Poetry Workshop | Online | 19 October 2022 | more here

  • Belfast Poetry Festival | Collaboration with visual artist Norma Randi Smith | Belfast, ME | 10 October 2022 | more here

  • In the Shadow of a Pine: Maine Black Poets Respond to David Driskell | Falmouth, ME | 25 August 2021 | more here

  • We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics Launch | Online | 13 December 2020 | more here

  • Good Oak Bar Reading Series | Tucson, AZ | 10 July 2016

  • POG and Friends Lightning Round | Tucson, AZ | 19 September 2015

  • Northern Arizona Book Festival | Flagstaff, AZ | 12 September 2015 | video here

  • Black Life Matters Conference, University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | 15 January 2015 | more here

  • Stjukshon: An Indigenous Reading Series, Casa Libre | Tucson, AZ | 21 November 2014

  • Words on the Avenue | Tucson, AZ | 25 May 2014 | more here

  • QTPOC Spoken Word, University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | 23 April 2014

  • Edge 64: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers, Casa Libre | Tucson, AZ | 16 April 2014

  • Trans and Genderqueer Literature Class (with Samuel Ace and CA Conrad), University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | 10 March 2014 | more here

  • POG and Friends at The Drawing Studio | Tucson, AZ | 21 September 2013 | video here

  • Troubling Tucson: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry Symposium | Tucson, AZ | 10 May 2013

  • African American Student Association Graduation, University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | 7 May 2013

  • The Dictionary Project Presents: “Diana,” Casa Libre | Tucson, AZ | 19 April 2013 | video here

  • Ian Ellasante for Speech Acts - Trickhouse | Gates Pass, AZ | March 2013 | video here

  • Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Community Event | Tucson, AZ | 7 February 2013

  • Trickhouse Live, Casa Libre | Tucson, AZ | 21 February 2012 | videos here and here

  • Made for Flight Poetry Night | Tucson, AZ | November 2011 | video here

  • Taos Summer Writers’ Conference Awardee Reading | Taos, NM | 16 June 2011

  • Poetry by Ellasante and Maia, Revolutionary Grounds | Tucson, AZ | 3 April 2010

  • Poetry by Ellasante and Maia, Revolutionary Grounds | Tucson, AZ | 11 April 2009

  • National Coming Out Day Reading, University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | 10 October 2008

Selected Poetry Workshops

  • “Poetry and Resistance Beyond the Gender Binary” | Bates College | Fall 2021 and ongoing

  • “Writing the Threshold: Poetry in Transitional Spaces” | Washington and Jefferson College | October 2018

  • “Communal Poetry: The Re-Membering of Language” | QTPOC Fest | October 2015

  • “Be a Poet and Know It: Poetry Basics to Inspire” | University of Arizona | April 2014

  • “The Queer Way to The Artist’s Way” | Tucson, AZ | August 2013

  • “Queering Liminality: The Uncommon Beauty and Creative Potential of Middle Spaces” | Troubling Tucson: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry Symposium | May 2013

  • “Building Poetry and Community” | Tucson LGBTQ Youth Poetry Workshop | April 2013

  • “Writing the Threshold: Poetry in Transitional Spaces” | Casa Libre | April through May 2013