Upcoming Events

Workshop Facilitator: “Black Latine Poetics” / Mission Viejo Library / Aurora Public Library / Aurora, CO / February 6, 2025

Featured poet / Virtual Reading with ALOCASIA and smoke & mold / online / March 28, 2025

Past Events

2024

Workshop Facilitator: “Body Poetics” / Queer Creatives Fest / Lighthouse Writers Workshop / Denver, CO / October 27, 2024

Guest Docent, Host, & Performer / UNTITLED / Denver Art Museum / Denver, CO / October 25, 2024

Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / October 4, 2024

Book Release event for Oliver Baez Bendorf’s CONSIDER THE ROOSTER feature performer / Maker General / Longmont, CO / September 30, 2024

Featured Panelist / Writing in Color Fest Panel on Publishing / Lighthouse Writers Workshop / Denver, CO / September 29, 2024

Workshop Facilitator: “Word/Play” / Creative Colorado Writer’s Retreat / Beyond The Veil Press and Twenty Bellows / Mint&Serif / Lakewood, CO / September 29, 2024

Featured poet / Jaipur Literary Festival Colorado / Boulder, CO / September 14, 2024

Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / September 6, 2024

Chapbook Release event for Meg Kim’s INVISIBLE CARTOGRAPHIES feature performer / New Delta Review / Online / September 5, 2024

Chapbook Release event for Alejandro Lucero’s SAPELLO SON feature performer / Mission Viejo Library / Aurora, CO / August 9, 2024

Featured Performer / Listen To Your Skin / Denver, CO (virtual) / June 30, 2024

Guest Host & Performer / “New Suns” Shades of Honey Showcase / Creative Strategies for Change / Denver, CO / June 29, 2024

Featured Performer / Slam Nuba / Redline Contemporary Art Center / Denver, CO / June 28, 2024

Featured Performer / Gender Euphoria burlesque variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / June 21, 2024

Featured Performer / Gaza Sunbirds Benefit Show / Townhall Collaborative / Denver, CO / June 15, 2024

Featured Performer / No Pride Without Palestine / Collaboration with So To Speak, The Offing, and Phoebe Journal / Virtual / June 14, 2024

Featured Performer / Punketry 7th Anniversary / Mutiny Information Café / Denver, CO / June 12, 2024

Workshop Facilitator / Trans & Nonbinary Writers Retreat / Sundress Academy for the Arts / Knoxville, TN (Virtual) / June 7-8, 2024

CantoMundo retreat participant / Arizona State University / Tempe, AZ / May 30-June 2, 2024

Featured Performer / Counterpath / Denver, CO / April 20, 2024

Featured Performer / Shades of Honey show / Birdseed Collective / Denver, CO / March 30, 2024

Featured Performer / Stained Glass variety show / XBAR / Denver, CO / March 27, 2024

Workshop Facilitator / Arapahoe Community College’s Writers Studio / Denver, CO / March 23, 2024

Featured Performer / Poets for Palestine / Aurora, CO / February 17, 2024

Featured Performer / Black History Tomorrow, an event at Denver Art Museum / Denver, CO / February 13, 2024

Featured Performer / Queer Erotic Poetics, an event at The Junkyard Social Club / Boulder, CO / February 10, 2024

Featured poet for Dystopian Times release event / Denver, CO / January 13, 2024

Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / January 5, 2024

2023

Guest Poet class visit for Poetics Seminar / University of Colorado, Denver / Denver, CO / November 29, 2023

Faculty for Queer Creatives poetry retreat (Workshop Facilitator, Panelist, and Featured Reader) / Lighthouse Writers Workshop / Denver, CO / in-person / October 27-29, 2023

Artist Residency / The Chrysalis Institute & The Omega Institute / October 9-13, 2023

Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / October 6, 2023

Featured poet for local author spotlight event / Counterpath / Denver, CO / September 30, 2023

Featured poetry workshop facilitator for Drop In Writing Sessions / Denver Art Museum & Lighthouse Writers Workshop / Denver, CO / virtual / September 26, 2023

Guest Judge & Performer for 5th Annual Slamming Bricks Poetry Slam / Grand Junction, CO / September 9, 2023

Guest host for Writing-In-Color retreat closing ceremony event / Lighthouse Writers Workshop / Denver, CO / August 20, 2023

Featured poet for F-Bomb event / Mercury Café / Denver, CO / August 15, 2023

Featured poet for Queer Poetry Jam event / Bus Stop Gallery / Boulder, CO / July 23, 2023

Featured poet for Black and Indigenous Ecologies Poetry Reading event / Counterpath / Denver, CO / July 7, 2023

Featured poetry workshop facilitator for Drop In Writing Sessions / Denver Art Museum & Lighthouse Writers Workshop / Denver, CO / virtual / June 27, 2023

MISEDUCATION release event / Counterpath / Denver, CO / June 17, 2023

Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / June 16, 2023

Artist Summer Residency / The Sundress Academy for the Arts / Knoxville, TN / May 22 - June 4, 2023

Featured poet for And Now Featuring… show / Trident Café / Boulder, CO / May 18, 2023

MISEDUCATION virtual release event & conversation with Dorothy Chan / hosted by New Delta Review / virtual / May 13, 2023

Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / May 5, 2023

Featured poet for Foglifter Journal Issue 8.1 Release / San Francisco, CA (virtual) / April 21, 2023

Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / April 4, 2023

Featured poet for Queer Lit and Performance Festival / University of Colorado Boulder and Counterpath / Boulder, CO and Denver, CO / March 17 & 18, 2023

Featured poet for offsite events / Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference / Seattle, WA / March 8-11, 2023

• Wednesday evening 6-9PM at The Blarney Stone with New Delta Review celebrating forthcoming NDR chapbook MISEDUCATION

• Friday evening 5-7PM at Doghouse Leathers celebrating the Listen to Your Skin Anthology

• Friday evening 7-9PM at Havana Social Club with Nightboat Books, The Elephants, and FC2 celebrating the Infinite Constellations Anthology

Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / March 2023

Loving at Intersections: A Confessional featured poet / Union Hall / Denver, CO / February 2023

Shades of Honey: Homecoming featured reader / Town Hall Collaborative / Denver, CO / January 2023

2022

Transgender Day of Remembrance event featured poet / Transgender Center of the Rockies / Space Annex Denver / Denver, CO / November 2022

Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / November 2022

Featured poet for CO-CEAL event / Regis University / Denver, CO / November 2022

Southmoor Elementary 4th Grade Poetry Night Guest Poet / Southmoor Elementary / Denver, CO / October 2022

Flowetry poetry feature / Redline Contemporary Art Gallery / Denver, CO / October 2022

Book Release event for Crisosto Apache’s GHOSTWORD feature performer / Counterpath / Denver, CO / October 2022

Keeping Colorado Springs Queer poetry feature / ICONS / Colorado Springs, CO / October 2022

National Poetry Day featured poet / Community College of Aurora / Aurora, CO / October 2022

Guest Facilitator for 2022 National Latinx Writers Gathering / Albuquerque, NM (virtual) / October 2022

BODYELECTRONIC official in-person release event (featuring Meca’Ayo Cole, Liza Sparks, and DJ Alisha B) / Counterpath Press / Denver, CO / September 2022

3rd Annual Latine Heritage Month Story Hour / poetry feature for Lil Miss Story Hour / Fiestas Patrias / Colorado Springs, CO / September 2022

4th Annual Slamming Bricks Poetry Slam (1st place in the slam!) / Grand Junction, CO / September 10, 2022

Shades of Honey poetry reader / City Park / Denver, CO / August 2022

Sacred Voices poetry feature / BookBar / Denver, CO / August 2022

48 hours of Engaged Art: Roots Radical performance feature / Slam Nuba: The Guillotine Hip-Hop show / Redline Contemporary Art Center / Denver, CO / August 2022

[margins] literary conference (performance with Slam Nuba and panelist with Shades of Honey) / Denver, CO / August 2022

ArtPark Studios event featured poet / Denver, CO / July 2022

Nomadic Press’s GET LIT reading series / virtual (Oakland, CA) / July 19 2022

BODYELECTRONIC conversation series / virtual event / July 17 2022

Dwell: A Poetry Benefit feature performer / The Village Institute / Denver, CO / June 2022

OOZE featured poet / Ashokra Farm / Albuquerque, NM / June 2022

Punketry 5th Anniversary featured poet / Mutiny Information Café / Denver, CO / June 2022

Micro-Poetry Event with The Lickety~Split and The Offing feature performer / Online (streamed on instagram) / June 2022

Book Release event for Jessica Lawson’s GASH ATLAS feature performer / Counterpath / Denver, CO / June 2022

ArtPark Studios event featured poet / Denver, CO / May 2022

Counterpath Opening Event feature performer / Denver, CO / May 2022

Listen to Your Skin Jazzetry feature performer / Denver, CO / April 2022

Tiny Resident poetry workshop / virtual / April 2022

Shades of Honey poetry workshop / Denver, CO / April 2022

ArtPark Studios event featured poet / Denver, CO / March 2022

Mutiny Information Café Open Mic featured poet / Denver, CO / March 2022

Poetry for Personal Power brunch featured poet / Denver, CO / February 2022

Creative Strategies for Change featured performer / Denver, CO / February 2022

Diversity Day featured performer with Slam Nuba / St. Mary’s Academy / Denver, CO / February 2022

2021

Nomadic Press‘s GET LIT reading series / virtual (Oakland, CA) / November 2021

Night at the Museum poetry workshop facilitator with Sacred Voices / Museum of Nature and Science / Denver, CO / November 2021

National Day of Writing featured poet / Community College of Aurora / Aurora, CO / October 2021

Jazzetry– live jazz and poetry / Mutiny Information Café / Denver, CO / October 2021

Book release event for Igbà Ayé: Tropical Winter by Femi Nassi / Whittier Café / Denver, CO / October 2021

Shades of Honey / Four Winds American Indian Council / Denver, CO / October 2021

Art Park grand opening event with Slam Nuba / RiNo Art Park / Denver, CO / September 2021

3rd Annual Slamming Bricks Poetry Slam (2nd place in the slam!) / Grand Junction, CO / September 2021

48 Hours of Socially Engaged Art & Conversation Summit: Afrofuturism / Redline Art Gallery / Denver, CO / August 2021

CantoMundo retreat public reading / University of Arizona Poetry Center / Tucson, AZ (virtual) / June 2021

Palestine Solidarity Benefit poetry feature / Whittier Café / Denver, CO / June 2021

Lit Fest Fellows Reading poetry feature / Lighthouse Writers Workshop / Denver, CO (Virtual) / June 2021

2020

Keeping Colorado Springs Queer open mic featured poet / Colorado Springs, CO (Virtual) / December 2020

The Crossroads of Latinx featured panelist / CantoMundo hosted panel / Dodge Poetry Festival (Virtual)/ October 2020

“Immigration Is An LGBTQ Issue: Love Beyond Borders” poetry feature / Denver, CO / September 2020

Boulder BIPOC Creative Collective poetry feature / Boulder, CO / August 2020

“Poetry People” Collective LGBTQ poetry feature / Denver, CO (virtual) / July 2020

Subvert featured poet with artist chat and Q&A / Denver, CO (virtual) / June 2020

OutLoud! Queer Showcase featured poet / Blush & Blu / Denver, CO / March 2020

Mercury Café Sunday Slam featured poet / Mercury Café / Denver, CO / March 2020

Central Park 5 VIP Reception featured poet / Redline Gallery / Denver, CO / February 2020

Mutiny Poetry Series featured poet / Suspect Press & Meow Wolf / Mutiny Information Café / Denver, CO / February 2020

Sacred Voices featured poet / Denver Open Media / Denver, CO / January 2020

Punketry featured poet / Mutiny Information Café / Denver, CO / January 2020

“Little Song: Sonnet/Lyric” / Guest poetry workshop facilitator for Writer’s Block / Boulder, CO / January 2020

PBS Head Room Sessions featured poet / Denver, CO / January 2020

2019

Stain’d Magazine Open Mic featured poet / Whittier Café / Denver, CO / December 2019

Their Haus V1: EP Release featured poet / LFX Filmworks / Denver, CO / October 2019

Busboys and Poets Denver Pop-Up featured poet / Denver, CO / September 2019

Stain’d Magazine Arts Housefest showcase featured poet / Denver, CO / September 2019

Human Cluster Project ArtHouse Showcase featured poet / Denver, CO / July 2019

Summer Writing Program Week 2 scholarship featured poet / Naropa University / Boulder, CO / June 2019