Past Readings, Speaking Engagements, & Events
December 2025 — Weird Girls x Luna Luna Magazine Reading Series
June 2025 — Sotterranea Writing Immersion Week-long Writing Workshop Guide in Palermo, Sicily with Radici Siciliane
April 2025 — Traveling Mollys Reading Series Featuring Lisa Marie Basile & Jan Beatty (Zoom)
February 2025 — Poetry Reading with Nightlight Poems (Zoom)
February 2025 — Poetry Reading with White Stag Press (Zoom)
February 2025 — Saint of Book Launch at Stanza Books
November 2024 — Must Love Memoir Reading Series at Jake’s Dilemma, NYC
September 2024 — Engaging The Depths Artists Way writing workshop with Sarah Gottesdiener’s The Moon Studio
July 2024 — Reading with NYC Writers Circle at KBG Bar, NYC
June 2024 — Saturday Salon – Breaking the Curse, Alex DiFrancesco & Lisa Marie Basile at Stanza Books
June 2024 — Writing the Cosmos, a writing workshop at Stanza Books
June 2024 — Weird Girls Reading Series at Unnamable Books, Brooklyn
November 2022 — Eldorado Bar Reading Series with Clash Books in Troy, NY
October 2022 — Weird Girls Reading Series in Pacific Bears Garden in Brooklyn, NY
October 2022 — Collaborating With The Shadow Workshop with Sarah Gottesdiener’s The Moon Studio
September 2022 — Resourcing The Creative Self Zoom Session with Sarah Gottesdiener’s The Moon Studio
April 2023 — Clash Books Reading at Slipper Room, NYC
December 2021 — Diversifying Your Income Zoom Panelist with Author’s Guild
November 2021 — Virtual Event: The Witch’s Feast: An Evening with Melissa Madara and Lisa Marie Basile
September 2021 — Clash Books Brooklyn Book Festival Offsite at Sisters, Brooklyn
August 2024 — Workshop: Writing Chronic Illness: Sharing Your Personal Experience
April 2020 — New School Alumni Instagram Live Discussion Feature
July 2019 — Yes Poetry Reading at The NYC Poetry Festival, NYC
July 2019 — Franklin Park Reading Series in Brooklyn, NY
June 2019 — Pigeon Pages Reading at McNally Jackson Books in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
February 2019 — Luna Luna Magazine Reading with At The Inkwell New York at Word Bookstore, Brooklyn
September 2018 — Brooklyn Book Fest Bookend Event with Memoir Monday at Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, a collaboration between Narratively, Catapult, Tin House, The Rumpus, Granta, Guernica, and Longreads
Jan 11, 2018 — Colony 274 Reading
Jan 14, 2018 — at Spoonbill Books Reading
January 28, 2018 — The Parkside Lounge Reading
December 15, 2017 — Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop
December 7, 2017 — Secret Loft Luna Luna Reading
November 16, 2017 — Strong Women Project @ New Women Space
October 28, 2017 — Von reading series @ Von
October 25, 2017 — Flapperhouse at Pacific Standard
October 13 & 14, 2017 — Diorama @ Green-Wood Cemetery w/ Atlas Obscura's Into The Veil
October 11, 2017 — Luna Luna Magazine Birthday Reading with At The Inkwell NYC at KGB Bar, NYC
September 15, 2017 — Clash Media at KGB
June 22, 2017 — Queen Mob's Teahouse Reading at Hell Phone, Brooklyn
June 26, 2017 — Breadcrumbs Magazine at Sisters Brooklyn
June 29, 2017 — Reading with Angelo Verga
May 23, 2017 — Reading with Jasmine Dreame Wagner at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop.
April 13, 2017 — Poets Settlement at Brooklyn Colony — Featured Poet & Open Mic.
April 15, 2017 — Verses Against Drug War reading, hosted at GAMBA Forest Magazine, Brooklyn
April 30, 2017— Pigeon Pages NYC at Powerhouse Arena
March 8, 2017 — Luna Luna x KGB Bar Presents The Body As Object
February 21, 2017 — Ditmas Reading Series
Feb. 5, 2017 — Luna Luna Resists Reading
October 25, 2016 — Bedlam x Desire (The Red Room / KGB)
Oct. 2 2016 — Katie Longofono Book Launch
Sept. 28, 2016 — Reading with Leah Silvieus for her chap Hyacinth Girl Press release! (Word Up)
April 13, 2016 — Nomadic Press Reading at RISK Gallery
Sept. 2, 2016 — The Island of Gambazini Reading Series
Sept. 18, 2016 — Reading with the fantastic Nicelle Nicelle @ Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop.
June 24, 2016 — NYU Editor Panel (as part of NYU's summer writing conference)
April 1, 2016 — Columbia University's Life After MFA series
April 13, 2016 — Nomadic Press Reading at RISK Gallery
April 27, 2015 — Stay with Me Awhile Book Release Party at KGB Bar, NYC
October 28, 2015 — Best Small Fictions Reading at NYU
June 10, 2015 — LIC Reading Series
May 2015 — Luna Luna Magazine reading at Troost, Brooklyn
April 12th, 2015 — Cedarmere Reading Series, NY
May 23, 2015 — Pythia Reading Series
August 2015 — Writers Salon at Emerson College Featured Speaker
September 2014 — SUMMER DEATH, a Luna Luna Poetry Reading at Mellow Pages, NYC
June 8, 2014 — Berl's Poetry Bookshop for Ashley Inguanta's book launch
June 19, 2014 — WORD Brooklyn
July 2014 — Mr Hip Poetry Reading Series at Poets House, NYC
July 2014 — APOCRYPHAL Post-Release Reading at Berl’s Poetry Shop
July 7, 2014 — The Poet In NY Reading, presented by The Poetry Society of New York
May 2014 — Love, Death and the Mediterranean at Caffe Vivaldi with Gabriel Moreno
2013 — Visiting poet at Westfield High School (New Jersey)
April 3, 2013 — Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center Reading for Katie Longofono's
book launch
February 6, 2013 — Italian American Studies Association reading @ Bluestockings
June 26, 2013 — Perfect Sense Reading Series: Alex Dimitrov, Jacob Scheier, & Soren Stockman
March 2013 — Birds of Lace/Dancing Girl Press at AWP reading
Fall 2013 — The Poetry Brothel Poetry Performer, Fall Residency at The Back Room, NYC
August 2013 — Kiss Punch Poem at Magnet Theatre, NYC
January 2013 — Cornelia St. Graduate Reading Series
January 2013 — The Highwaymen Reading Series, NYC
February 2013 — Couplet Reading Series, NYC
March 2013 — AWP Conference Off-site, Cambridge Writers Workshop, Boston, MA
March 2013 — AWP Conference Off-site, The Poetry Brothel, Boston, MA
December 2012 — Derangement of the Senses Reading Series, NYC
June 3, 2012 ‚— InDigest, Howl Festival Reading
October 11, 2011 — The Renegade Reading Series
August 2010 — Poetry Reading Series with Feile-Festa Literary Journal at KGB Bar, NYC