Events

Select Appearances at Festivals and Events

• Reader at the Nebraska State Capitol for the celebration of the 100^th anniversary of John G. Neihardt’s ceremony being installed as Nebraska’s Poet Laureate
• Emcee the Nebraska Poetry Out Loud Finals
• Workshop leader for the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument Writing Marathon
• Speaker for the Scholastic Awards ceremony; Hastings College in Hastings, NE
• Featured reader, the San Jose Poetry Festival; San Jose, California
• Performance at Tecumseh State Correctional Institution; Tecumseh, Nebraska
• Paying Attention is a Form of Prayer art exhibition; Fontenelle Forest, Omaha
• Reykjavík Bókmenntaborg UNESCO reading at Kaffislippur; Reykjavik, Iceland
• White Pelican Homecoming Celebration Festival; Harlan County, NE
• Bucharest, Craiova, and Drobeta Turnu Severin, Romania; U.S. Department of State Cultural Envoy program
• National Poetry Slam
• Gaborone, Botswana; U.S. Department of State Cultural Envoy program
• Maitisong Festival; Gaborone, Botswana
• Buffalo Commons Storytelling Festival; McCook, NE
• Homestead National Monument; Beatrice, NE
• Red Cloud Opera House; Red Cloud, NE
• Nebraska Arts Council, “Wednesday Words” series; Omaha, NE
• Kathmandu, Nepal; U.S. Department of State Cultural Envoy program
• TEDx Omaha at The Durham Museum; Omaha, NE
• Great Plains Theatre Conference; Omaha, NE
• Poetry of Place Celebration for the Nebraska Writing Project at the Nebraska State Capitol; Lincoln, NE
• Minsk, Belarus; U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Information Program Speaker/Specialist exchange program
• Plum Creek Literary Festival; Seward, NE
• Nebraska Book Festival
• Neihardt Spring Conference; Bancroft, NE
• Nebraska State Fair; Lincoln, NE