Events

 No Acute Distress and Threshold scheduled and selected readings and presentations:

2022

“Settling into Poetry’s Sacred Space”: a co-taught workshop with Dr. Elizabeth Lahti, Director of Narrative Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, Conference on Medicine and Religion, March 2022

Selected past events:

“Poetry Makes Room for Faith, Fear, and Failure”: paper presentation, Conference on Medicine and Religion, March 2021

Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival, Portland, OR

Books, Inc. with Matthew Siegel, Vanessa Hua, and Ingrid Rojas Contreras, San Francisco, CA

The Voice of Empathy reading series, Portland, OR

Oregon Book Award Finalist reading, Corvallis, OR

The Milwaukie Poetry Series, The Pond House, Milwaukie, OR

Lit Crawl Portland: ZYZZYVA Takes Portland, Mother Foucault’s Book Shop, Portland, OR

Featured Poet, guest of Representative Carolyn Tomei, Opening Ceremonies on the House floor, Salem, OR

POETS ON BROADWAY with Karen Holmberg, Antoinette Hatfield Hall rotunda, Portland, OR

Featured Poet, Oregon Poetry Association’s Spring Conference, Silverton, OR

Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland, OR

Nye Beach Writers Series, Newport, OR

Barnes & Noble, Vancouver, WA