Readings
Please contact me if you’re interested in having me come read or talk! Email me at find.arielle@gmail.com.
Selected Past Readings and Lectures:
Longfellow Days reading series, Brunswick, Maine 2020
Narrow Chimney Reading Series, Flagstaff 2017
University of Maine-Farmington 2016
University of Southern California, Los Angeles 2016
Coconut Books reading, Mason’s (Minneapolis) 2015
Labor Day reading, Books on the Square (Providence) 2014
OSU-Cascades Rendezvous with Risk, Red Velvet Lounge (Seattle) 2014
Poetry Reading, riverrun books (Portsmouth) 2013
Ugly Duckling Presse Reading, Old American Can Factory (Brooklyn) 2013
Brats Reading at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop (NY) 2013
“Poetry of Motherhood: Unsentimentality,” MA Poetry Festival (Salem) 2013
Ecopoetics Reading, University of California at Berkeley (CA) 2013
Moderator, “Experiments in Educations: Nontraditional MFA Programs,” Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Minneapolis, April 2015
Speaker, “Beyond the Gurlesque: Toward a Femme Aesthetic of Masochistic Pleasure & Other Delights,” “Friends, Bitches, Countrymen: Contemporary Feminist Poetics,” University of Southern California Visions & Voices Symposium, Los Angeles, March 2014
Panelist, “Eco-Spectacular: Eco-Spectacular Vision: Post-pastoral Poetics in the 21st Century,” Association of Writers & Writing Programs Annual Conference, Seattle, March 2014
“Hybrid-Genre Literature,” Stonecoast Writers’ Conference, University of Southern Maine Stone House, July 2013
Panelist, “Wholesome and Dirty: How my Urban-to-Rural Journey Resulted in a Series of Experimental/Pastoral Sex Poems (a reading with talking in it),” “Queering Ecopoetics: Hybridity, Eros, Ferality,” Conference on Ecopoetics, University of California at Berkeley, February 2013
Organizer and Chair, “Feminisms and Poetics in the 1980s,” National Poetry Foundation Conference on Poetry and Poetics of the 1980s, Orono, Maine, 2012
Home/Birth Reading, Smith College, Northampton, MA, October 2011
Speaker, “The Gurlesque and Feminist Poetics,” New York University MFA workshop, April 2011
Panelist, “Hybrid Poetics and Its Discontents,” Association of Writers & Writing Programs Annual Conference, Denver, April 2010
October 2009: Living Writers Series, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, October 2009