“I admire many of Ruth Lepson's feminist-symbolist poems in Dreaming in Color....she has imagination and a delicate care for words.” from Open Places

Previous Readings and Performances

2011:
Reading at Outpost, Cambridge, MA
Reading at Gloucester Writers Center, Gloucester, MA
Poetry with saxophonist Derek Beckvold, Boston Poetry Marathon, Cambridge, MA
Poetry and jazz with my group Box Lunch, MA Poetry Festival, Salem, MA
Poetry and jazz with musicians, XFest, 119 Gallery, Lowell, MA
Poetry and jazz with Box Lunch, Douglass St. Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Reading at Newton Free Public Library, Newton, MA
Reading for On the River: The Cambridge Community Poem, Tommy Doyle’s, Cambridge, MA
2010:
Poetry and jazz with Box Lunch, 119 Gallery, Lowell, MA
Reading for Boston Poetry Marathon, Outpost, Cambridge, MA
Reading for Ordinary Evening Reading Series, New Haven, CT
Reading for Stain of poetry series with bass player Ben Davis, Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, NY
Poetry and jazz with Box Lunch, Lily Pad, Cambridge, MA
Interview with Doug Holder, Somerville Cable TV Poet to Poet Writer
Reading for Sam Hamill, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Reading at Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA cited in Shelf Life column of The Boston Globe
2009:
Reading for on-line poetry event via Skype teleconference in the 53rd Venice Biennale. Details on the Facebook Virtual Mercury House Group and Facebook Event Listing
Reading for Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Lowell, MA
Reading at The Corner Store, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
Poetry and jazz with my group, low road (Noah Preminger on sax, Eric Lane on keys) at Cornelia Street Cafe, New York, NY
Reading at Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NY
Book release party & jazz concert for I Went Looking for You, The Democracy Center, Cambridge, MA, sponsored by The Grolier Poetry Book Shop
2008:
Presentation with Rusty Crump, for Segue Poetry Series, The Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY – Play full recording online at Penn Sound.
Poetry and jazz with Joe Moffett, Adam Dotson, and Tom Arabia at Jamaica Plain Library, MA
Poetry and jazz with my jazz group, low road (Noah Preminger on sax, Eric Lane on keys), Outpost 186, Cambridge, MA, on two occasions
Reading for Hildegaard von Bingen Society 25th anniversary conference, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA
Electronic composition by Jean-Francois Charles and flute by Mario Caroli, Paine Hall, Harvard University – Watch online.
2007:
Reading, Demolicious Poetry Series, Out of the Blue Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Poetry and music performance with Joe Moffett, Adam Dotson, Jeff Kimmel, and Jean-Francois Charles, Brookline Tai Chi, Brookline, MA
Book party and presentation of art, poetry, and jazz with artist Rusty Crump, and jazz musicians, Studio Soto, Fort Point Channel, Boston, MA
Inclusion of my poems in WingWords, art installation, Boston, MA
2006:
Collaboration with saxophonist Noah Preminger in his student recital at New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
Reading and jazz improvisation with musicians Hankus Netsky, Linda Chase, and Tupac Mantilla, at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
Reading for PEN New England, Hotel Marlowe, Cambridge, MA
2005:
Memorial reading for poet Robert Creeley, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Memorial reading/concert for saxophonist/composer Steve Lacy, St. Mark's Church, New York, NY
Sojourner anthology reading, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Sojourner anthology reading, Wellfleet Public Library, Wellfleet, MA
2004:
Sojourner anthology reading, Andover Bookstore, Andover, MA
2003:
9/11 reading for United for Justice with Peace, Sanders Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Presentation of dream prose poems and slides, Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Boston, MA
Readings, Boston Poetry Marathon, The Art Institute of Boston at Leslie University, and Cambridge Poetry Marathon, MIT (both national conferences of innovative poets)
Reading to conclude grant from Watertown Cultural Council to finish a book of poems, Brigham House, Watertown, MA
Prior readings
Dozens of readings, including one on NPR's "All Things Considered" and others at La Mama, NYC; Grolier Bookstore, Cambridge, MA; Boston Poetry Conference; Art-o-matic, with the Malcolm X Drummers and Dancers, Washington, DC; Waterstone's Booksellers, Boston, MA; Stone Soup, Cambridge, MA; MIT radio; Philomathian Society, University of Pennsylvania; and Raffles Bookstore, Portland, ME