Presentations
A list of my presentations throughout the years.
Reading of "Peace Weavers" at Fumfa's Open Mic at EcoEvolution in Norwalk, hosted by Fairfield University MFA Graduates Chris Belden and Katie Schneider, May 19, 2023.
Reading the winning poems of the Under the Bough poetry contest for Woodbury and Bethlehem students at Northend Elementary School's poetry slam in New Britain on April 26, 2023.
Reading introductory poem "Young Voices" at the Under the Bough poetry contest award ceremony on the North Green with Woodbury Public Library, April 23, 2023.
Hosting open mic in celebration of National Poetry Month at Woodbury Public Library, April 11, 2023.
Reading with Margaret Gibson, Pegi Deitz Shea, Charles Rafferty, and Srinivas Mandavilli with Poems from the Four Corners, hosted by Ridgefield Poet Laureate Barb Jennes and Ridgefield Public Library, April 5, 2023.
Reading "Peace Weavers," "Who's Your Team?," "One Face," and "Learning to Ride" in celebration of National Poetry Month at Arts Escape, Southbury, Connecticut, April 2, 2023.
Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with education grad students at the New Britain Museum of American Art, March 25, 2023. Amy Dorio, organizer.
Presenting "Peace Weavers," a poem honoring Women's History Month and International Women's Day, at Justice Southbury, March 19, 2023.
Moderating a book discussion with the authors of The American Way, Bonnie Siegler and Helene Stapinski, at Woodbury Public Library, March 18, 2023.
Reading of works from Mother Tongue and "Who's Your Team?" at Fumfa's Open Mic at EcoEvolution in Norwalk, hosted by Fairfield University MFA Graduates Chris Belden and Katie Schneider, February 19, 2023.
Reading of works from Mother Tongue online with Fumfalive, hosted by Fairfield University MFA Graduates Chris Belden and Katie Schneider, February 19, 2023.
Presentation "Poetry Builds Community" to the Mattatuck Unitarian Universalist Society's congregation, February 19, 2023.
Reading "Where You're From" and "Mother and Child" on the Arts Escape (Southbury) monthly open mic, February, 2023.
Reading selections from Slow Passage Home and Mother Tongue at the Studio Hill open mic, January 26, 2023.
Reading "Love Among the Ruins" on the Arts Escape (Southbury) monthly open mic, January, 2023.
Reading "A Christmas Story" at the Peace Poetry Reading by area poets laureate Zoom. Hosted by Jim Gallagher of Goshen.
Reading commemorative poem "Southbury, Connecticut, Defeats Local Nazis in 1937" at the 85th Anniversary Celebration of When Southbury Said No to the Nazis, Wyndham Hotel, Southbury, Connecticut, November 12, 2022.
Reading of the poems "One Deer" and "Clothesline" at the event Poetry Reading at Riverbound Farm Sanctuary," in Cheshire, Connecticut, October 9, 2022.
Reading of the poem "Clothesline" on the Arts Escape (Southbury) monthly open mic, October 6, 2022.
Reading of works online with Fumfalive, hosted by Chris Belden and Fairfield University MFA Graduate Katie Schneider, September 11, 2022.
Reading of new works at "Spoken Word Event," hosted by Studio Hill Gallery and the Arts Alliance of Woodbury, August 18, 2022
Reading of new works at open mic hosted by Arts Escape, Inc., of Southbury, August 4, 2022.
"Words That Matter" four-session reading and writing workshop at Woodbury Senior and Community Center, July 11 - August 2, 2022.
Reading of new works at open mic hosted by Arts Escape, Inc., of Southbury, July 7, 2022.
Reading of new works at "Spoken Word Event," hosted by Studio Hill Gallery and the Arts Alliance of Woodbury, June 16, 2022.
Reading of new works at "Spoken Word Event," hosted by Studio Hill Gallery and the Arts Alliance of Woodbury, May 19, 2022.
Interview with "This One Thing I Do" podcast, January, 2022.
Interview with "Woodbury Talks" podcast, December 18, 2021.
Reading of new works at "Spoken Word Event," hosted by Studio Hill Gallery and the Arts Alliance of Woodbury, December 16, 2021, Woodbury Public Library.
"Poetry Reading and Author Talk with Sandy Carlson," November 12, 2020, Woodbury Public Library Zoom.
Readings from Seventeen Park Lane and Silent Spaces at the Northwest Corner Writers' Group's June meeting in Goshen, CT.
Reading of "Oak Leaves" and "At Bethany" at Bethlehem (CT) Library's October, 2005, Literary Coffee House.
Reading from Seventeen Park Lane at The Silo Gallery in conjunction with Western Connecticut State University, in New Milford, Connecticut, 2004.
“The ‘I’ in Pearse: an Irish Revolutionary’s Choice of Voice” for a New Aesthetic,” “The Presence of the Past: 1798-1998,” Tenth Graduate Irish Studies Conference, March 27-29, 1998, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
Is Peace in Ireland Dead? (lecture), Western Connecticut State University History Society, Danbury, Connecticut, 1996.
“The Writing on the Wall” (multimedia creativity seminar), Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT., Spring, 1994. (Later presented at Bethel Cinema, Bethel, CT, 1994.)
“James Joyce’s Irish Nationalism,” (paper) presented at “Representing Ireland: Gender, Class, Ethnicity” Conference at University of West Virginia, Morgantown, March 4, 1994. (Later presented at the University of Texas, Austin.)
"Scairt Amach, Irish Republican Prisoners' Art" (photograph exhibition), Western Connecticut State University, Danbury; Mercy College, White Plains, NY; New Haven Feis, New Haven, CT; Irish Arts Center, New York, NY. The exhibition is now a permanent part of the political collection of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Radio interview and programs concerning Irish issues, WXCI Radio, Danbury, CT; WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT, 1990-1994.