UPCOMING READINGS
Reading with Kim Blaeser Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon, Milwaukee, WI, January 24,
2026
PAST READINGS/PRESENTATIONS
Reading, Book Drop MKE Reading Series, Amorphic Beer, Milwaukee, WI, December 5, 2025
Panel and Reading, Indigenous Poetics: Past, Present, and Future, Poets House, New York City, NY, October 18, 2025
Reading, Woodland Pattern Poetry Center’s Poetry in the Park at Juneau Park, Milwaukee, WI August 12 at 6:30pm
Virtual Reading, “Writers Speak Out: Words of Resilience,” 12-4pm (CST) April 26, 2025
Virtual Panel, “Poetry as Survival,” Utah Poetry Festival April 26, 2025 at 10am (MST)
Panel with m.s. RedCherries and Rebecca Pelky, “Indigenous Justice,” Unbound Book Festival, Columbia, MO, 11:45am-1pm, April 19, 2025
Reading with Elijah Burrell and Gary Jackson, Unbound Book Festival, 10-11am, April 19, 2025
Book Signing, Unbound Book Festival, 1:15-1:45pm, April 19, 2025
New Faculty Reading, Beloit College, South Lounge – World Affairs Center, Beloit, WI, April 15, 2025
Offsite Reading, Indigenous Nations Poets, Associated Writers and Writing Programs Conference, First Draft Taproom and Kitchen, Los Angeles, CA, March 28, 2025
Panel, “How To Teach Dine Literature”, Associated Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 27, 2025
Panel, “Performance & the Presentation of the Self: Identity on & off the Page Panel” Associated Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 27, 2025
Reading with Kim Blaeser and Alexandria Delcourt, Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon, Saint Kate-The Arts Hotel, Milwaukee, WI January 25, 2025
Winter Storytelling and presentation on Navajo monsters and Emblem Poetry, Canyons School District, Title VI, Sandy, UT, December 5, 2024
Reading with students, “Ode to Autumn”, Beloit College, Beloit, WI, October 24, 2024
Reading, Restore Conference, Sandy Expo Center, Sandy, UT September 6, 2024
Reading with Elizabeth C. Garcia and others, King’s English Bookstore, Salt Lake City, UT, September 6, 2024
Virtual Faculty Reading, Emerging Diné Writers’ Institute, July 22, 2024
Virtual Reading, Spring Fellows Reading, Indigenous Nations Poets, May 1, 2024
PhD Graduation Reading, Florida State University Creative Writing Program, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL, April 25, 2024
Reading, Florida State University’s Small Advisory Craft Press and Museum of Fine Arts “All Hands on Deck Symposium, Tallahassee, FL April 19, 2024
Virtual Reading with Lindsey Webb, Utah Poetry Festival, Salt Lake City, UT, April 19, 2024
Reading with Landis Grenville, Hikari Leilani Miya, and Isabelle Alegria, Stop at the Station, Tallahassee, FL, April 5, 2024
Craft talk and reading, May Swenson Visiting Writer, Utah State University, Logan, UT, March 21, 2024
Reading, Florida State University’s Jerome Stern Reading Series, The Bark, Tallahassee, FL, February 27, 2024
AWP Off-site Reading, Indigenous Nations Poets, Kansas City Public Library Plaza Branch, Kansas City, MO, February 9, 2023
Panel, “Ekphrasis & Indigenous Poetics: Writing the Space the Spaces In-Between” Associated Writers and Writing Programs, Kansas City, MO, February 9, 2024
Book signing, Indigenous Nations Poets Booth, AWP Bookfair, Kansas City, MO, February 9, 2024
AWP Off-site Reading, University of Wisconsin Press, Tannin Wine Bar, Kansas City, MO, February 8, 2024
Book signing at University of Wisconsin Press Booth 635/637, AWP Bookfair, Kansas City, MO, February 8, 2024
Guest faculty/class visit, Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, Kansas, February 7, 2024
Book Launch and conversation with Utah Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore, King’s English Bookstore, SLC, UT, December 19, 2023
Virtual December Fellows Reading, Indigenous Nations Poets, December 6, 2023
Book Launch, reading and conversation with Barbara Hamby, Midtown Reader Bookstore, Tallahassee, FL, November 16, 2023
Reading with Emma Reyes, “All Hallow’s Eve,” Hummingbird Wine Bar, Tallahassee, FL, October 30, 2023
Reading with Stacie Denetsosie, Railtown Readings in conjunction with Weber State University and Utah Humanities Book Festival, Ogden, UT, October 3, 2023
Panel Participant and reading, “Redefining Power: Indigenizing the Hybrid Poem,” AWP Conference, Seattle, March 10, 2023
Reading with Heid Erdrich, Kimberly Blaeser, and Jake Skeets. “IN-NA-PO Indigenous Nations Poets Year 3,” AWP Conference, Seattle, Washington, March 9, 2023
Reading with Luci Tapahonso, Esther Belin, Sherwin Bitsui and others, Western Literature Conference, “The Diné Reader: A Reading and Discussion about the Making of an Anthology of Navajo Literature,” Santa Fe, NM, October 20, 2022 at 1pm.
Virtual reading, Indigenous Nations Poets Fellows Reading, September 22, 2022
Virtual Reading with other poets, POETRY Northwest, August 25, 2022
Reading with Elise Boxer, “A Panel of Native Women Voices,” Mormon History Association Conference, Logan, UT, June 4, 2022
Reading with fellows, Indigenous Nations Poets Retreat, Madison Building, Mumford Room, Washington, DC, April 29, 2022
Reading with Larry Mitchell, Word of South Literary Festival, Tallahassee, FL, April 10, 2022
Writing Exercises and Poetry Presentation, Herriman High School Poetry Club, Herriman, UT, March 11, 2022
Reading with a Presentation on Emblem Poetry and Navajo Monsters, Educators Training, Utah Arts & Museums, March 10, 2022
Virtual Reading and Conversation with Heid Erdrich, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts “A Shared Body,” Tallahassee, FL, December 2, 2021
Virtual Reading with Layli Long Soldier, O.B. Hardison Poetry Reading Series, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, November 18, 2021
Reading, Weber State University, International Education Week, Poetry Night, November 17, 2021
Reading, Salt Lake Community College, SLC, UT, November 17, 2021
Virtual Reading, Diné Reader: One Book, One Community, San Juan College, Farmington, NM, November 10, 2021
Reading, Florida State University’s Jerome Stern Reading Series, The Bark Restaurant, Tallahassee, FL, November 2, 2021
Virtual Facilitator, Manuscript Poetry Workshop with the International Women’s Writing Guild, September 20, 27, and October 11 & 18, 2021
Virtual Panel on Literary Citizenship/Community and Poetry Program Kickoff, The International Women’s Writing Guild, September 14, 2021
Virtual Reading with Anna Scotti and Kendra Greene, Lightscatter Press Inaugural Book Launch, June 14, 2021
Virtual Guest Host/Writing Facilitator, Black, Indigenous, POC (BIPOC) Writing Party. May 17, 2021
Virtual Reading, BYU Alumni Rochester-MN Cougar-Read, BYU Spring Bonanza. May 13, 2021
Virtual Panel with Ron Smith and Lesley Wheeler, “Breaking the Line” The Pier-Glass Poetry Panels, Bridgewater College, May 10, 2021
Virtual Reading with Esther Belin, Byron Aspaas, and others. The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature. San Juan College, Farmington, NM, April 28, 2021
Virtual Roundtable: “Devotional Poetry” with Jacqueline Osherow, Darlene Young, Michael Sowder, and Paisley Rekdal (moderator), Utah Poetry Festival. Salt Lake City, UT, April 18, 2021
Virtual Featured Reading with Benjamin Garcia and Ander Monson, Northern Arizona Book Festival. Flagstaff, AZ, April 3, 2021
Virtual FSU AND FAMU Joint Reading, Florida State University Jerome Stern Reading Series, Tallahassee, FL, March 30, 2021
Virtual Reading with Venaya Yazzie. “Resilient Matriarchy: Indigenous Women’s Art” in Community with Open Doors: Art in Action. Flagstaff, AZ, March 11, 2021
Virtual Reading with Brandon Shimoda. POG Arts of Tucson Reading Series. Tucson, AZ, February 20, 2021
Virtual Moderator, Chip Livingston, Marianne Broyles, and Jennifer Foerster. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry Reading. Florida State University Jerome Stern Reading Series, Tallahassee, FL, January 12, 2021
Virtual Reading with Elise Paschen, Toni Jensen, Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. and Laura Furlan (moderator), Massachusetts Review. University of Massachusetts-Amherst, December 10, 2020
Virtual Panel Discussion with Natanya Pulley, Aaron Timm, Nate Marshall, Reina Pahulu, and Michael Sawyer (moderator). Utah Presents: Artists Elevated, Literary Arts. Salt Lake City, December 2, 2020
Virtual Reading with Margaret Noodin, Gwen Westerman and others. Michigan State University. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry Reading, November 19, 2020
Virtual Conversation with Navajo Artists, “Native Artists Navigating Through the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Northwest New Mexico Arts Council and San Juan College, Farmington, NM. November 19, 2020
Virtual Reading with Tommy Pico, Sherwin Bitsui, Casandra Lopez and LeAnne Howe. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry Reading. Collected Works Bookstore, Santa Fe, NM, October 28, 2020
Virtual Reading with Heid Erdrich, Kimberly Blaeser, Sherwin Bitsui, and Roberta Hill. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry Reading. University of Colorado – Boulder Indigenous Peoples’ Day, October 15, 2020
Virtual Reading with Philip Metres and Kiki Petrosino, Sonnets from the American: A Virtual Symposium & Critical Anthology, October 2, 2020
Virtual Reading with 6 others, Ecopoetics Reading, August 13, 2020
Virtual Reading with Jennifer Foerster and others, Glass House Festival “Poetry From Around the World,” July 23-26, 2020
Virtual Reading with Sherwin Bitsui, The Autry Museum, July 16, 2020
Virtual Reading with Brenden Basham and Amber McCrary, “Saad ei Na’iilna: A COVID-19 Relief Fundraiser” Saad Bee Hozho: Dine Writers Collective, June 26, 2020
Virtual Reading, Eggtooth Editions Chapbook Contest, June 12, 2020
*CANCELLED due to COVID-19* Reading, Wasatch Front Panel, Utah Poetry Festival, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, April 18, 2020
Moderator, AWP Panel “Savage Sunsets: a Tribute to Adrian Louis,” San Antonio, TX, March 6, 2020
Reading with Casandra Lopez and Oscar Hokeah, AWP Offsite Event, Guadalupe Theater, San Antonio, TX, March 5, 2020
Reading, Utah State University, Logan, UT, January 22, 2020
Reading with Lance Larsen and Rob Carney, 15 Bytes Book Awards Event, The Printed Garden, Sandy, UT, October 18, 2019
Reading, Utah Arts Festival, Library Square Downtown, Salt Lake City, UT, June 20, 2019
Reading with Provo/SLC poets, Utah Poetry Festival, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT, April 27, 2019
Reading with Heid Erdrich, Trevino Brings Plenty, Gwen Westerman, and Laura Da’, Associated Writers and Writing Programs Conference Panel, Portland, OR, March 28, 2019
Reading with Trish Hopkinson, City Art, Salt Lake City Downtown Library, Salt Lake City, UT, March 13, 2019
Reading, English Department Reading Series, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, January 25, 2019
Reading with Rock Canyon Poets, Lithic Bookstore and Gallery Reading, Fruita, CO, November 3, 2018
Reading & Signing with Sy Hoahwah and Tommy Pico, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, October 27, 2018
Reading with Esther G. Belin, Jake Skeets, and Bojan Louis, Saad Na’ach’aah Reading Series, Diné College, Tsaile, AZ, October 24, 2018
Reading with Eric Gansworth, Native American Poets Playlist: Poems in the Gallery at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 3, 2018
Class visit, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, September 25, 2018
Reading, Pollentongue Reading Series, Art123 Gallery, Gallup, NM, August 3, 2018
Reading & Signing, Navajo Preparatory School, Farmington, NM, May 2, 2018
Reading & Signing with Esther Belin, Venaya Yazzie, Tina Deschenie, and Gloria Emerson, Cortez Public Library, Cortez, CO, April 20, 2018
Reading & Signing, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM, April 18, 2018
Reading & Signing, The King’s English Bookshop, Salt Lake City, UT, April 12, 2018
Reading & Signing, Pioneer Book, Provo, UT, March 13, 2018
Signing, Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Tampa, FL, March 8, 2018
Reading, Cornell University, Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca, NY, November 2, 2017
Reading, UNM Summer Writers’ Conference, Drury Hotel, Santa Fe, NM, August 27, 2016
Reading, The BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Seminar on American Indian and Mormons, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, June 6, 2016
Reading with Cybele Knowles, Eggtooth Editions Reading, Northern Arizona Book Festival, Flagstaff, AZ, September 2015
Reading with two poets, “As/Us Journal Reading,” Ignacio Community Library, Ignacio, CO, December 2013
Reading with three poets, “As/Us Journal Reading,” Navajo Preparatory School, Farmington, NM, April 2013
Reading, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH, February 2013
Featured speaker, Native American Literature Symposium, Isleta, NM, March 2012
Reading, Brigham Young University-Hawaii, La’ie, HI, February 2012
Reading with Gloria Emerson, Native American Center, San Juan College, Farmington, NM, October 2011
Reading, class visit, and musical performance; Indigenous Women’s Speakers Series, Wells College, Aurora, NY, April 2011
Reading, Musical Night of Poetry: Performance of “Three Poems from Felt” and the premier of “Cornell Set,” featuring readings by Alice Fulton, Tacey M. Atsitty, Benjamin Garcia, Clayton Pityk, and Elizabeth Rogers, set to electroacoustic music by composer Joseph Klein, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 2011
Reading & Webcast with Orlando White, Layli Long Soldier, and others; Florida Review Native Issue; National Museum of the American Indian; Washington, DC; February 2011
Panel and Reading, “Native Writing: A New Generation, New Conversation,” The Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, Washington, DC, February 2011
Reading with five other poets, Northwest New Mexico Arts Council, Farmington Public Library, Farmington, NM, December 2010
Reading with Jamie Warburton, SOON Productions, Buffalo Street Bookstore, Ithaca, NY, September 2010
Reading with Arthur Sze, Carol Moldaw, Jon Davis, and others; National Premiere Book Launch for New Poets of the American West; Collected Works Bookstore; Santa Fe, NM; August 2010
Reading, “All Ivy Native Council Conference,” Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, April 2010
Reading with five other poets, “Uncommon Ground: Poets from the Institute of American Indian Arts BFA Program,” The Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, Denver, CO, April 2010
Reading with two other writers, Native American Literature Symposium, Isleta, NM, March 2010
Reading with Christian Howard, Lounge Hour Reading Series, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 2009
Reading, BFA Graduate Showcase, IAIA Museum, Santa Fe, NM, May 2009
Reading with Rueben Chinana and Layli Long Soldier, BFA Creative Writing Graduation Reading, IAIA, Santa Fe, NM, April 2009
Reading with four other writers, Native American Literature Symposium, Isleta, NM, March 2009
To schedule a reading, please contact Tacey.