2020:

Young Arts Foundation, Miami, Florida, January 4-12, YoungArts Week,  Master Class on “Tiny Texts” and Poetry Workshops

Voices of Poetry, Tompkins Square Library, February 15, poetry reading with Jennifer Franklin, Nick Flynn and Michael Klein

2019:

The Associated Writing Programs Conference, Portland, OR, March 2019
Panels: “Writing the Disaster: Poetry and Extremity” and “Walking a Fine Line: Teaching in a Time of Political Turmoil”

Book Launch for My Cesarean: 21 Mothers on the C-Section Experience and Beyond. KGB Red Room, NYC, May 2

The 45th Anniversary Celebration of Alice James Books, The Hudson Valley Writers Center, May 10, with Andres Cerpa, Phillip B. Williams, Iain Haley Pollock, Francine J. Harris

Reading with Peter Cooley, Poetry Buffet Series, New Orleans, LA, September 21

Reading with Peter Cooley, Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge, LA, November 2

2018:

The Lunar Walk Reading Series, Local 138, New York City, with Phil Memmer, 4:30pm, March 3, 2018

Plume Magazine Reading, Tampa, Florida. March 7, 2018, 7pm, The Aloft Hotel.

AWP conference, Tampa, Florida, Panel: “Five Women Talk Feminist Flash Non-Fiction,” with Beth Ann Fennelly, Grace Talusan, Dawn Raffel and Daisy Hernandez, Thursday, March 8, 2018, 4:30-5:30pm

The ANT Bookstore and Café Reading Series, Clifton, New Jersey,  April 21, 2018

1781 Reading Series, The Columns Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, with Peter Cooley, May 1, 2018, 7pm

The Spring Poetry Festival at City College, May 4, 2018

Shakespeare and Company, New York, NY, with Donna Masini and Lee Bricetti, June 5, 7pm

Shh, Montclair, Gallery L, Montclair, NJ, June 30, 7pm

Voices of Poetry Series, Jefferson Market Library, New York, NY, July 25, 6pm

The Hudson Valley Writers Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY, with Erika Meitner, September 14, 7pm

The Carriage House Poetry Series, Fanwood, NJ, with Matthew Thorburn, September 18, 8pm

The Art of Poetry Series, The Palmer Art Museum, State College, PA, October 3, 12pm

Poets Out Loud Series Book Launch, Fordham University, New York, NY, with Henk Rossouw and Julia Bouwsma,
October 18, 7pm

Berls Poetry Bookshop, Brooklyn, NY, with BK Fischer, Carmen Gimenez Smith, and Erika Meitner, October 19, 7pm

The Devil’s Kitchen Fall Literary Festival, Carbondale, IL, October 25, TBA

Cedarmere, Bryant's 224th Birthday Celebration, November 5

Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge, LA, with Peter Cooley, Saturday, November 10

Words and Music Festival, New Orleans, LA, with Peter Cooley, Saturday November 16

Hudson Valley Writers Center, MFA Spotlight Reading with faculty and MFA students from Queens College, Drew University and Hofstra University, December 7

Pete's Big Salmon Poetry at Pete's Candy Store, with Meher Manda and Kimberly A. Collins, December 14

ANT Bookstore & Cafe, Clifton ANT series with Michael T. Young

Jefferson Parish Library with Peter Cooley

Association of Writers and Writing Programs

2017:

Halfway There Reading Series, Montclair, New Jersey, June 5, 2017

The New York City Poetry Festival, July 29-30, 2017

Berl’s Poetry Book Shop Reading, Brooklyn, NY, September 28, 2017
with Miranda Field and Matthew Thorburn

Southern Literary Festival, Nashville TN, October 14, 2017 

Octavia Books Reading New Orleans, LA, October 26, 2017
with Martha Serpas and Ava Leavell Haymon

Louisiana Festival of Books, Baton Rouge, LA October 28, 2017
with Peter Cooley 

CD Wright Women Writers Conference, Conway, Arkansas, November 3-4, 2017

Third Fridays at Woodstock Library Reading, November 17, 2017

KGB Bar Reading, with Kimiko Hahn, Nov 28, 2017

2016:

CUNY Writers Against Austerity: Sunday March 20, 2016, Cooper Union (7 E. 7th Street, NYC), 4pm

Featured Poet at the The Beall Poetry Festival, Baylor University, Waco, TX, April 6-8, 2016, with Kevin Young and Amaranth Borsuk

New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 15-17, 2016

The Roots Poetry Series in Park Slope, Brooklyn, April 22, 2016

Dead Rabbits Reading Series, NYC, May 15, 2016, with Kimiko Hahn

2015:

A Reading for the Plume Anthology of Poetry Volume 3
With Lynn Emanuel, Tom Sleigh, Kathy Ossip and others
Bookcourt, Brooklyn NY, Saturday September 12, 4pm
bookcourt.com

Featured Reading at Great Weather Poetry Series at the Parkside Lounge, NYC
Sunday September 12, 4pm
greatweatherformedia.com

Katrina Aftermaps—Ten Years On: A Discussion of Unnatural Disaster
With Kalamu ya Salaam, Climbing PoeTree, Stacy Parker Le Melle, and Tonya M. Foster –
The CUNY Graduate Center, NYC, Friday September 18, 3-8pm
www.centerforthehumanities.org

Reading with Anya Silver at PS, in DUMBO, Brooklyn
Monday September 28, 7pm
www.facebook.com/psbookshop

Presentation on Salem Lessons (artist’s book) with artist Maureen Cummins
The American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
Tuesday November 17, 7pm

2011:

Monday, March 7, 12:30 p.m.: SUNY Adirondack Community College - Dearlove Hall in Queensbury NY, with Brad Richard

Readings tentatively planned in New Orleans at Maple Street bookstore in April 2011 and at the Mamapalooza Conference in NYC in May 2011.

Wednesday April 20, Poetry Reading, 12:30pm, River Valley Community College, Claremont New Hampshire

Thursday April 21, A Celebration of Poetry: Ten Poets Plus One, 7pm, Watchung Booksellsers, Montclair New Jersey

Saturday, April 22, Third Annual Kinereth Gensler Awards Celebration Reading and Book Launch, with Laura McCullough, Shara McCallum and Ellen Dore Watson, 3pm, Poets House, 10 River Terrace, NYC

Monday May 23, Poetry reading with Shara McCallam, Mia Leonin, and Julia Spicher Kasdorf at the M.O.M. (Museum Of Motherhood) & MFI
 (Motherhood Foundation Inc.) at Marymount Manhattan College, NYC

Readings for Milk Dress:

February 1: Reading at Hamilton College in Clinton NY

AWP, February 3-5, 2011, in Washington DC: A reading of Walt Whitman Award winners sponsored by the Academy of American Poets

February 7, 2011:  Reading with Mihaela at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA

February 17: Reading with Laura and Kathy Graber at Brookdale Community College in Brookdale, NJ

February 24: Reading at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, PA

February 27-8: Reading at Purdue University in West Lafayette IN

February 20: Reading at the Queens Central Library in Jamaica Queens (New York)

2010:

Mother: A Symposium
Friday February 26
The Graduate Center. The City University of New York www.mothersymposium.wordpress.com

March 23, Poetry Reading
The Rez Reading Series, Kew Gardens, NYC

March 27, Panel “Poetry and History” with Maxine Sussman and Roger Sedarat
New Jersey College English Association Conference
Seton Hall University, Saturday March 27

April 9, Panel on Muriel Rukeyser
Panel: “Wave after Wave: The Legacy of Muriel Rukesyser”
With Jan Heller Levi, Kate Daniels, Anne Herzog, Jen Benka and Jan Freeman
The Associated Writing Programs Conference, Denver Colorado, April 7-11. www.awpwriter.org

April 13, Poetry reading
1718 Reading Series, The Columns Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana

April 24, Poetry reading with Maria Terrone
Smalls Jazz Club
183 10th St NYC

April 27, Poetry reading
Monmouth University

May 20-21, Poetry reading with Julia Lisella and Julia Spicher Kasdorf
Mamapalooza, NYC

May 26, Reading Book Party for Breach and Toxic Flora
with Kimiko Hahn
Cornelia Street Café, NYC www.corneliastreetcafe.com

June 1, Poetry reading with Kimiko Hahn
Perch Café, Brooklyn, NYC
With Kimiko Hahn

"Breach" on Poetry Daily August 4, 2010

Sunday, Aug 29, 3:30pm
New Orleans, LA
REMEMBERING KATRINA
Nicole Cooley, Peter Cooley, Yusef Komunyakaa, Kay Murphy, Brenda Marie Osbey,
Alison Pelegrin, Brad Richard, and Martha Serpas, with Alice Quinn
An event honoring the fifth anniversary of the hurricane, featuring poets from
New Orleans and the Bayou state.
Co-sponsored by the English Department, Tulane University.
Admission is free.
Kendall Cram Room, Lavin-Bernick Center
Tulane University
6823 St. Charles Avenue

Word for Word Poetry Reading about Hurricane Katrina
Tuesday August 31, 7pm, Bryant Park
Bryant Park Reading Room www.bryantpark.org

Monday September 20
Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania
A Commemoration of the Fifth Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina: A Poetry Reading
6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe writing.upenn.edu

A Presidential Roundtable on Hurricane Katrina
Monday September 27, 12:30pm
Nicole Cooley and Joy Fuqua
Queens College-City University of New York www.qc.edu

Art and Disaster: A Symposium on the Fifth Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Rutgers-Newark, Newark, New Jersey
Center for Genocide and Human Rights
September 30, 2010 www.ncas.rutgers.edu/cghr

Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:00 pm
131 E. 10th St. New York NY
Reading at the St Marks Poetry Project with Julia Carr
Reading for Milk Dress poetryproject.org

2009:

Panel Discussion
The Associated Writing Programs and Writers Conference, Chicago, Illinois,
Saturday February 14, 2009, 1:30-2:45 pm
"Make It New": Innovations and Ideas from Four New MFA Programs at Public Universities

March 1-7, 2009
Nicole is a guest blogger this week at The Best American Poetry website

Poetry Reading
Turnstyle Reading Series
The CUNY Graduate Center
with Kathryn Harrison and CUNY MFA students
Thursday March 12, 2009, 6:30-8:30 pm
365 Fifth Ave @34th Street NYC
in The Skylight Room (9100)

Poetry Reading
East Stroudsburg University,
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania (www.esu.edu),
Tuesday April 14, 2009, 6:30 pm

2008:

September 29, 2008
KGB Monday Night Poetry Series with Kimiko Hahn
KGB Bar, NYC
7:30pm www.kgbbar.com

October 6, 2008
The Florie Gale Arons Poetry Reading
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Newcomb College Center for Research on Women
8pm www.newcomb.tulane.edu

October 20, 2008
Bluestockings Bookstore, NYC
Reading from the book Mama Ph.D.
7pm www.bluestockings.com

October 21, 2008
KGB Bar, NYC
Reading from the book Mama Ph.D.
7:15pm www.kgbbar.com

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