Selected Readings and Performances


2024 Greetings, Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, Nov 7. “This was so much fun. Best curveball / off speed reliever in the game. It took a few poems for the audience to realize what was going on but they were swinging, missing, and laughing about it by the end” (Jordan Davis).

2024 “A Layman’s View of an Art Exhibition,” Chill Bar, Spittoon Poetry Night, Aug 22 [three voice performance, with James Bradley and James Holt].

2024 Visions issue 4 launch, I Love Shanghai Bar, Shanghai, June 22 [featured poetry reader].

2021 Spittoon Fiction Night. Soi Baochao, Beijing, December 9 [reading with musician Devin Wang].

2021 “Film.” Spittoon Neo-Benshi Night. Camera Stylo, Beijing, March 25 [neo-benshi collaborative performance with Ana Padilla Fornieles, Abigail Weathers, Jarek Jarvis and Michael Burton].

2020 Bridge Poets Reading, Spittoon Collective. Lama Temple, Beijing, May 28 [poetry reading].

2019 Poetry OutLoud. Hong Kong, October 27 [poetry reading].

2017 “Rough for Performance.” Picasso Machinery, New York, Sept 29 [multi-media performance].

2013 “A Layman’s View of an Art Exhibit.” A Century After the 1913 Armory Show, 2013 Axis International Art Festival, Chicago, May 5 [performance].

2012 “A Rodeo Clown Opts Out.” The Yellow Book, Chicago, October 11 [performance for seven players].

2009 “G.2.20.” The 4th Biennial & Now Festival of Innovative Writing and the Literary Arts, State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, October 16 [performance from score from Beijing and Oakland, with Chad Lietz].

2009 “G.2.20.” Myopic Bookstore, Chicago, October 4 [performance from score from Beijing, Oakland and Chicago, with Kevin Kilroy and Chad Lietz].

2008 “Marx Will Quilt You a Blanket.” Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, November 22 [performance, with Chris Skebo, Chad Lietz, Dillon Westbrook, and Liugi Marino].

2008 “Poetz Choice Trifecta Free for All.” Mixing Bowl, Oakland, October 8 [performance, with Dillon Westbrook, Sid Staiti, and Stephanie Young].

2008 “In Jingletown, There is No Time.” Ego Park Gallery, Oakland, June 1 [performance].

2007 “Chicago Calling.” Elastic, Chicago, October 26 [reading with musicians].

2007 WNUR Performance Studio, Northwestern Univ, Evanston, October 24 [reading].

2007 Gallery of Urban Art, Oakland, July 14 [reading].

2007 “Forth Sound Back.” Red Rover Series, The Spareroom, Chicago, February 24 [performance].

2006 “Chicago Calling.” Stanford University, October 25 [performance].

2002 “100 Nails for Mayakovsky.” Hothouse, Chicago, May 5 [performance with Kristin Miltner].

2001 Fifth Congress of the Americas, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico, October 19 [reading].

2001 City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, March 28 [reading].

2001 “Notes from the Mendoza Line.” The University of Virginia, March 3 [performance].

2001 “The Creative Act.” ProArts Gallery, Oakland, January 31 [performance].

2000 San Francisco State University Poetry Center, December 12 [reading].

2000 “Paraleipsis.” Center for Contemporary Music, Oakland, November 1 [musical premier].

2000 “For Which It Stands.” Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, October 21 [performance].

2000 University of Nevada Las Vegas, June 3 [performance].

2000 “Pantomime for Street Corners #3.” Mills College, April 16 [performance].