Select Readings & Talks
Featured Reader, Chatter PDX, Winter 2025 (Varga & Shields play Debussy, Schumann, & Mozart)
The Gong Show Reading Series, Salon Rouge, Winter 2025
PCC Faculty & Friends (w/Madeline ffitch), Fall 2025
Poets for Palestine (w/Mic Crenshaw, Armin Tolentino and others), Spring 2024
Tahoma Literary Review, AWP Kansas City, Winter 2024
"Intro Forever: Mapping the Creative and Pedagogical Landscape of Community Colleges," Panel, AWP Kansas City, 2024
Extraterrestrial Boyfriend launch, Black Warrior Review, online, Fall 2023
Portland Book Festival, Moderator, 2022 & 2023
"Get Lit: Literary Journals on the Two-Year College Campus," Panel, AWP Seattle, 2023
Reading w/ Frank Holt, Lara Messersmith-Glavin and Jessica Johnson, Barrio, Portland Mercado, October 2022
FE Magazine Launch, June 2022
Winter Poetry Festival, Featured Poet "Nest" Reading, PNCA, January 2020
PCC: Sylvania Creates & Art Beat (annually, 2010-2019)
Mother Foucault’s (with Paula Carter, Alicia Jo Rabins and Katherine Sullivan), February 2018
Three Friends Coffee House, Spring 2013
The Putney School, Summers 2006-2013
Guest Host, Late Night Library, 2012
Women’s Writing Workshop, Boca Raton, FL, 2012
The Dekum Building (with Lightsey Darst), Portland, Oregon, Spring 2010
Boxcar Books, Bloomington, Indiana, Winter 2007
Buskirk-Chumley Theater, Bloomington, Indiana, Spring 2006
Guest Lecture and Reading, Short Prose Forms, Jay Ponteri. Marylhurst U., Portland, OR, 2008