September 20-21, 2025 Keynote Speaker WANA, Writers Association of Western Appalachia Wheeling, West Virginia April 26-27, 2025 L.A. Times Festival of Books University of Southern California April 26, 2025 Celebration of Laura Boss Book Prize with Suzanne Cleary The Poetry Center Passaic County Community College Paterson, New Jersey April 12, 2025 Monsters of Poetry Madison, WI March 26-29, 2025 AWP Conference & Bookfair Los Angeles, CA March 21-22, 2025 Virginia Festival of the Book Charlottesville, VA March 11, 2025 Hive Live! Series with Ellen Bass, Luke Johnson Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA. 95060 January 25, 2025 with Iris Jamahl Dunkle www.irisjamahldunkle.com (New York Times featured writer) White Whale Bookstore - 7 PM Pittsburgh, PA January 17-20, 2025 Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway Murphy Writing, Stockton University Seaview Hotel, Galloway NJ December 8, 2024 Books and Books with Denise Duhamel and Julie Marie Wade Coral Gables, Florida Sunday, 5 PM November 15, 2024 YMCA of Central New York, Syracuse Zoom reading - 7 PM Reading and Q&A with Director Phil Memmer November 2, 2024 BGSQD-Bureau of General Services-Queer Division - 3 PM with Ruben Quesada, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Emanuel Berger 208 West 13 Street, New York, NY October 10, 2024 Poetry Flash - 7 PM Art House Gallery & Cultural Center with Brittany Perham and Kim Addonizio 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free. October 6, 2024 Bazaar Writers Salon - 6 PM Bazaar Cafe, 5927 California St. San Francisco September 5, 2024 Dragstripping Book Launch with special guest Richard Blanco Poets Aloud Carnegie Lecture Hall Pittsburgh, PA July 27, 2024 Poetry in the Park - 1:00pm Armstrong Redwoods Forest Theater Guerneville, CA July 21-26, 2024 Napa Valley Writer's Conference with Jane Hirshfield, C. Dale Young, Bruce Snider May 14, 2024 Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Amy Lee Heinlen, Ben Gwin, Hallie Pritts, Fred Shaw Hop Farm Brewing, Lawrenceville April 13, 2024 San Antonio Book Festival "Writing from the Taboo" with Sandra Cisneros and Richard Blanco March 13, 2024 Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA February 8-10, 2024 AWP Conference, Kansas City Braving the Body Reading, 2/8 5-7 PM, Cheval on Main The Body Wars Book Signing, 2/10, 12-1 PM, Kestrel Table 1739 October 15, 2023 with Sandra Cisneros Teatro Bilingue de Houston Houston, TX September 1, 2023 - 7:00pm Ragged Edge Coffee House Gettysburg, PA August 23, 2023 - 7:00pm World Above Stockton University Noyes Art Garage Atlantic City May 12-13, 2023 Pittsburgh Literary Festival May 2, 2023 University of Delaware March 8-11, 2023 AWP Writers Conference, Seattle March 3, 2023 White Whale Bookstore Lefty Blondie Press Launch with Christine Stroud February 17, 2023 University of California Riverside Writers Week October 21-22, 2022 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival October 13-14, 2022 Workshop and Reading The Folger Shakespeare Library Washington, D.C. September 15, 2022 Aretha's Jazz Cafe with Allison Adelle Hedge Coke Detroit May 14, 2022 Pittsburgh Literary Festival April 24, 2022 - 2:00-3:00pm LA Times Book Festival April 23, 2022 The Poetry Center Passaic County Community College April 14, 2022 - 5:00-6:00pm PST (Virtual) Looking Back, Looking Forward: A Reading with Jan Beatty and Dana Levin The women writers who influenced their work. (Iris Jamahl Dunkle MC) wnba-sfchapter.org April 9, 2022 - 6:00-7:00pm EDT (Virtual) Adoptee Literary Festival EDT Nonfiction Panel www.adopteelitfest.com November 17, 2021 Miami Book Fair with Sandra Cisneros November 6, 2021 Red Hen Books Pasadena, CA American Bastard Launch with Richard Blanco, Lynne Thompson November 11, 2021 (Virtual) Poetry Flash w/Peter Kline, C. Dale Young November 7, 2021 Bazaar Cafe San Francisco October 23, 2021 American Bastard Book Launch Lotenero Art Studio White Whale Bookstore hosting October 20, 2020 Virtual Reading San Francisco State Univeristy October 1, 2020 Book Launch for The Body Wars White Whale Bookstore, Pittsburgh, PA April 25, 2020 Rattle Magazine Workshop and Reading Wrightwood, CA (near Big Bear) March 18, 2020 Charlotte Lit Reading Series Charlotte, NC November 15, 2019 White Whale Bookstore, with Jody Bolz Pittsburgh, PA November 12, 2019 President's Lecture Series, Carlow University Pittsburgh, PA October 24, 2019 Writers on the Bay, Florida International University Miami, FL April 11, 2019 Christopher Bothe Memorial Lecturer, McDaniel College Westminster, MD April 6, 2019 Paterson Prize Reading, Poetry Center Paterson, NJ March 23, 2019 "What is it then between us?: Poetry and Democracy" with Rigoberto Gonzalez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, sponsored by the Dodge Foundation Morristown, NJ October 18-21, 2018 Geraldine R. Dodge Festival Newark, NJ September 24, 2018 University of Baltimore Student Center Bogolmony Room, 5th floor Baltimore, MD 7:00pm September 13, 2018 White Whale Bookstore Bloomfield, Pittsburgh, PA 7:00pm April 17, 2018 Lake Tahoe Community College Reading with Gayle Brandeis April 12, 2018 Why There Are Words Series Studio 333 333 Caledonia Street Sausalito, CA April 6, 2019 Poetry Center Passaic County Community College Workshop and Reading with Finalists of 2018 Paterson Poetry Prize Paterson, NJ March 23, 2018 YMCA Visiting Author Series Syracuse, NY March 10, 2018 AWP Tampa Hair as Myth and Metaphor: Five Women Poets on Cultural Transgression Reading with Shara McCallum, Nicole Santalucia, Rachel Wiley, Mia Leonin Tampa, FL March 2, 2018 Malaprops Reading with Maggie Anderson Asheville, NC All work copyright © Jan Beatty 2024