2024 EVENTS

Apr 17 CWW Visiting Writers, JenSS w Erin Hodges, Univ of New Orleans, 8pm

Apr 20 New Orleans Poetry Festival, Rogues & Renegades, w/ J. Bruce Fuller & Burnside Soleil

Jun 4 Connecticut Poetry Society, Writers on Writers, JenSS on C.D. Wright

Aug 18. Coffee with the Authors, in conversation w/Sarah Bearup-Neal , Glen Arbor Arts, Michigan

2023 EVENTS

Jan 5-8 MLA, San Francisco. Comics & Poetry w/ Yona Harvey and Jessica Q. Stark Jan 8, 1:45-3pm Artist Talk: “Lean To: The Provisional Dialogic Structures of Image+Text”

Mar 9 AWP Offsite Reading featuring Brenda Trace, Catherine Prescott, Anna Ross & Nicole Callahan.

Mar 10 AWP Seattle Book signing, Texas Review Press booth #601 10am-11am Pacific

AWP Offsite Reading & Karaoke: March Fadness & TRP w/ Apogee & Diagram.

Mar 11 AWP Offsite Reading: “I Get By w/a Little Help from my Friends” hosted by Poem of the Week.

Apr 20 The Bookman, a reading w/ Anne-Marie Oomen, 7pm, Glen Haven, MI

May 19-21 Biographers International Organization Conference, NYC

May 21 Brookline Reading Series: Nathan McClain & Jen Sperry Steinorth, Sunday 2pm, virtual

Jun 15 The Word Barn, A Reading w/ Nathan McClain, Thursday, 7pm, Exeter, NH

Jul 11 Bryant Park Reading Room, Tuesday, 6pm, New York City

Sep 16 LOBA Reading Series, Ukiah Branch Library, Saturday, 3pm, Ukiah, CA

Oct 20-1 Youngstown Fall Lit Fest, “The Only Way Forward is Back” w/Ananda Lima & Chloe Martinez . “What If We Put Our Wildernesses Together?” a conversation w/ Ross Gay

2022 EVENTS

Jan-May Dennos Museum, Juried Art Exhibition “The Dynamic State” curated by Vera Ingrid Grant

Jan 26 Hudson Valley Writers Center, An Evening w/Kerrin McCadden, Angela Narciso Torres & JenSS

Feb 2 Michigan State University, Poetry of Witness, Poetry of Resistance Reading Series 3pm Masterclass “Stop Talking Over Me”, 7 pm Reading, East Lansing.

Mar 15 At Home with Literati Books, a virtual reading & conversation w/ A. Van Jordan, 7pm EST

Mar 23-6 AWP, Philadelphia. Book signing: Friday 3-4pm Texas Review Press booth #1662.

Apr 3 Poetrio, Malaprops Books, a virtual reading w/Joshua Nguyen & Glenis Redmond, 4pm EST

Apr 7 Dennos Museum “The Art of Cross-Pollination: A Visual Reading & Writing Workshop” 6:30-8pm EST Dennos Museum, Traverse City, Mi

Apr 19 Leelanau Township Library, Workshop & Reading Series in Celebration of National Poetry Month 4-6pm Workshop “Reclaiming the Dead”, 7pm Reading, Northport, Mi.

Apr 27 LOOP: Laboratoire Ouvert Sur l'Oeuvre Poétique 5:30pm France, 12:30pmEST One Speaker, One Poem: Jen Sperry Steinorth’s Her Read, A Graphic Poem

Apr 29 Horizon Books reading w/Fleda Brown, Anne-Marie Oomen, Teresa Scollon, & Catherine Turnbull.

May 17 Tulsa Artist Fellowship & Magic City Books present…A Reading w/ Moheb Soliman & JenSS

Sep 17 The Troubling Sings: Art Opening & Reading w/ Aaron Coleman, Madison Grosvenor, Jennifer Metsker & Laura Russell: Cedar North Art Gallery, Cedar, Mi. 7pm.

Oct 20 Visiting Writer Series: Our Lady of the Lake University: Sueltenfuss Library, 6pm.

Oct 22 VersoFrontera Literature & Arts Festival: Main 311, San Antonio 9:30am-6:40pm

Oct 24 Gemini Ink: Intro to Erasure Workshop, San Antonio, 6-9pm

Oct 27 Poison Pen Reading Series, Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge, Houston, TX

Oct 28 Defunkt Reading Series w/ Natty Carrizosa & Aris Brown, Melange Creperie, Houston @7pm

Oct 29 Writespace Presents Halloween Reading & Open Mic w/Patrick Stockwell & Kartika Budhwar Antidote Coffee, Houston 7pm

Nov 5 C.D. Wright Writers Conference “Writing Silence” w/ Carrie Marr & Ananda Lima, Conway, AK

2021 EVENTS

Mar 4 AWP Panel “Compounding the Line: Visual Poetics in a Word Doc World” with Douglas Kearny, Diana Khoi Nguyen, and Octavio Quintanilla

May 2 LIT YOUNGSTOWN Reading Series w/Genevieve Kaplan & Laura Van Prooyen, 7pm ET virtual

May 26 TRP Reading Series: Jen Sperry Steinorth, Matt Miller & Caridad Moro-Gronlier, 7:30pm ET virtual

Jun 11 HER FEAST: A Celebration of Artists & HER READ, A GRAPHIC POEM’s virtual launch, 7:30ET

Jun 13 HUDSON VALLEY WRITERS CENTER Masterclass: Erasure: What Am I Missing?

Jun 15 THE IMP FACTOR: a Virtual Reading of HER READ, A GRAPHIC POEM w/Carrie Strand Tebeau

Jun 23 HER READ: the Monster’s Birth Story: A Virtual Reading & Conversation w/J. Bruce Fuller

Jul 7 Masterclass & Reading INTERLOCHEN Center for the Arts, Writing House, 3pm, 4pm, 7pm

Jul 26 Poets Meet Musicians, featured guest, Acoustic Mead, 7pm

Sep 16 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER, a virtual reading & conversation w/ Douglas Kearney

Sep 17 John R. Milton Writers Conference, University of South Dakota “Poetry as the Writing of Silence” w/ Ananda Lima & Caroline Mar

Sep 22 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival, “Visual Poetics in a Word Doc World” A Reading & Conversation w/ Diana Khoi Nguyen, Anthony Cody & Octavio Quintanilla

Sep 23 SEWANEE Writers Reading Series, w/ Matt Miller, Paige Quiñones and Ryan Vine.

Oct 2 Kalamazoo Book Arts: “Erasure and Ekphrasis, Working with Found Materials” a workshop with Jen Sperry Steinorth & Shannon K. Winston, Saturday 2-4pm

Oct 7-10 YOUNGSTOWN FALL LITERARY FESTIVAL, Poetry Readings (Friday 7pm & Saturday 1:15pm) Workshop: The Play’s the Thing: Erasure as Dialogue, Saturday 9:45am

Nov 6 MSU Broad Art Lab: “Fool’s Gold True: the Poetry of Erasure and Collage” 1-6pm

Nov 10 Laguna College of Art & Design, Masterclass, Reading, Artist Talk

Nov 16 Visiting Poet, Michigan State University, Poetry Workshop, Guest of Lauren Russell

Dec 3 A Reading & Conversation with Jen Sperry Steinorth, Leland Township Public Library, 2pm.

Dec 10 “Holidays are Hard, an Evening with Local Authors” w/Jennifer Metsker, Julie Babcock, Scott Beal & Ellen Stone. Booksweet 7:30-9pm, Ann Arbor.

2020 EVENTS

Jan 5 MALAPROPS BOOKSTORE w/Brit Washburn & Katie Bowler Young Asheville, NC, 3pm

Feb 6 THE IVY BOOKSHOP, w/ Joseph Capista, Baltimore, MD, Thursday, 7pm

Feb 7 BERL’S BROOKLYN POETRY BOOKSHOP, w/ Ryan Black & Leah Falk, Brooklyn, NY, 7pm

Feb 8 Winter Edition of COUPLET, w/ Jennie Xie, Joshua Bennett, Kristina Marie Darling, Julia Guez, & Deborah Landau, KGB Bar, Manhatten, NY, Saturday 5-7pm

Feb 10 Monday Night Poetry, w/Nathan McClain & others KGB Bar, Manhatten, NY, 7-9pm

Feb 29 BRAZOS BOOKSTORE, Houston, TX

Mar 4-7 AWP Conference, San Antonio, TX

Apr 3 BAD MOUTH READING SERIES, Albuquerque, NM

Jun 23 SKAZAT READING SERIES, Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea, Ann Arbor, MI

Sep 29 Black Warrior Review, Secret Boyfriend Virtual Reading, 7pm ET

Oct 2-Nov 3 “Kiss Me We’re Dying” Art Installation, Oliver Art Center, Frankfort, Mi

Oct 8 “Finding Each Other in Art & Poetry” a virtual reading, Oliver Art Center w/Robb Astor, Jennifer Metsker, Teresa Scollon, & Ellen Stone

Oct 12 Visiting Artist, UNIVERSITY of MICHIGAN, guest of A. Van Jordan MFA Workshop

2019 EVENTS

Sep 13 LAUNCH: A WAKE WITH NINE SHADES, The Botanical Gardens, Traverse City, MI

Oct 8 ANTIDOTE BOOKS reading w/ Nathan McClain & Kerrin McCadden, 7pm Putnam, VT

Oct 10 ESTRAGON TAPAS reading w/ Matt Miller, Boston, MA

Oct 11 THE WORD BARN reading w/ LS McKee, Exeter, MA

Oct 12 THE WORD BARN, Poetry Workshop 10am-5pm, Exeter, MA

Oct 25 Pegasus Reading Series, with Rose Skelton, DEEP VELLUM BOOKS 7pm, Dallas TX

Oct 26 THE BURNING PLAIN READING SERIES, Golden Boy Coffee, 4pm, Denton TX

Oct 27 THE BUZZ MILL reading w/Patrick Stockwell & J. Bruce Fuller, 2:30pm, Austin TX

Oct 30 Sam Houston State University Reading Series, Austin Hall, 5pm, Huntsville TX

Oct 31 POISON PEN READING SERIES, Houston TX, 8:30pm

Nov 1 St. Mark’s Church, Reading and Q&A, 6pm, San Marcos, TX

Nov 5 The Body Lyric: An Interdisciplinary Reading & Craft Talk, TX State University

Nov 14 HORIZON BOOKS, reading with David Hornibrook, 7pm Traverse City, MI

Dec 1 WHY THERE ARE WORDS, Bowery Poetry Club, NYC