poetry readings:

Featured artist, "'Is There "Nothing New Under the Sun'? A Conversation with Ecclesiastes" at The Harrison Center (May 2024)

Headliner, "Poetry Slam" at Ujaama Bookstore, Indianapolis (Apr. 2022)
 
Headliner, "Spoken Word Series" for the Writers Guild at Bloomington (July 2021)

Producer and host, "International Social Justice Poetry Slam @4C21" for the National Council of Teachers of English in Spokane, Washington (Mar. 2021)

Headliner, "InKy Reading Series" for Louisville Literary Arts in Louisville, Kentucky (Nov. 2020) 

Hired talent, "Dignity USA Retreat" at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis (Sept. 2019)

Invited celebrity judge—certified regional qualifying slam, “Iconoclast at the Indianapolis Poetry Slam” at the Irvington Theater in Indianapolis (Apr. 2019)

Participant at “Poetry Slam @4C19” at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh (Mar. 2019)

Headliner “River City Revue.” The Bardstown Bar, Louisville ky, Sept. 2018.

Participant in something called “Indianapolis Poetry Orgy” haha at Indy Reads Bookstore in Indianapolis (Sept. 2018)

Headliner at “VOCAB” at Fountain Square's White Rabbit Cabaret, Indianapolis (Sept. 2018)

Invited competitor in “The Indianapolis Poetry Slam” at the Irvington Theater in Indianapolis (Aug. 2018)

Executive producer, slam host, and hired talent for 22 productions of "Poetry on the Fringe" at the Indy Eleven Theater on Mass Ave in Indianapolis (Feb—Dec. 2018)

Headliner at “VOCAB.” White Rabbit Cabaret, Indianapolis (Apr. 2018)

Headliner at “The Round Poetry.” hosted by Rebecca Heuhls at the Tuba Factory Art Space, Indianapolis (Mar. 2018)

Hired talent for “Pull Up a Chair: A Storytelling Variety Show.” Theatre on the Square, Indianapolis (Mar. 2018)

Opening act for Chantel Massey's "Release Party for Bursting at the Seams" hosted by Indy Reads Bookstore in Indianapolis (Feb. 2018)

Invited competitor “Sonnets and Slow Jams.” White Rabbit Cabaret, Indianapolis, (Feb. 2018)

Opening act for Wil Gibson before “The Indianapolis Poetry Slam” at Coal Yard Coffee in Indianapolis (Jan. 2018)

Invited alumni poetry reading at Marian University, Indianapolis (May 2016)

Hired talent for “IndyFringe’s Holiday Hangover Party and Catalyst Season Teaser” at the Basile Theatre in Indianapolis (Jan. 2018)

Reprise, “Word: Greatest Hits Anniversary" at Rabble Coffeehouse in Indianapolis (Aug. 2017)

Reprise, “River City Revue: Greatest Hits Anniversary” at The Bardstown Bar in Louisville, Kentucky (Aug. 2017)

Extra in “#AdnawPoem” by Chantel Massey (July 2017)

Creator and host of “Story Slam” at Indy Reads Bookstore in Indianapolis (July of 2014, 15, 16, &17)
 
Headliner for “Word" at Rabble Coffeehouse in Indianapolis (June 2017)

Participant in “Open Mic” at Laurel Thirst in Portland, Oregon (Mar. 2017)

Headliner for “River City Revue" at The Bardstown Bar in Louisville, Kentucky (Jan. and Feb. 2017)

My Shakespearean sonnet “Tired” was selected for the Sonnets on a Sunday poetry contest and performed by the Louisville Commonwealth Theatre Players for the 400th Anniversary of William Shakespeare’s First Folio tour in Louisville, KY (Nov. 2016).

Workshop facilitator for “Write” for Chantel Massey at Tea's Me in Indianapolis (Nov. 2016)

Cast member in "Poems for the People" at the Phoenix Underground Theater for the Indy Fringe Festival in Indianapolis (Aug. 2016)

Headliner at “VOCAB” at The Casba Bar in Indianapolis (July 2016)

Hired talent for “Violence Free is the Way to BE” a 3-1-7 Motorcyclists charity event at Martin Luther King Memorial Park in Indianapolis (July 2016)

Headliner at “Poems for the People” at the Irvington Theater in Indianapolis (June 2016)

Featured performance poet at “Quake: A Queer Speakeasy” at The Thirsty Scholar in Indianapolis (May 2016)

Book release and prose reading of Where Mercy and Truth Meet at Indy Reads Bookstore in Indianapolis (Nov. 2015)

Headliner at “Poems for the People” at Garfield Coffeehouse in Indianapolis (Nov. 2015)

Participant in the longest-running open mic in Indiana, at Kafe Kuumba in Indianapolis (July 2015)

Headliner at “Fourth Friday at the Coal Yard” at Coal Yard Coffee in Indianapolis (June 2015)

National Champion in graduate student slam poetry for the Public Speech and Debate League national championship tournament (Mar. 2015)

State Champion (Ohio) in graduate student slam poetry for the Public Speech and Debate League state championship tournament (Feb. 2015)

Grand slam champion of “Spoken Word Wednesday” at the Indy Eleven Theater in Indianapolis (July 2014)

Slam champion of "Spoken Word Wednesday” at the Indy Eleven Theater in Indianapolis (June 2014)

Slam champion of “Sometimes Y!” at the Indy Eleven Theater in Indianapolis (May 2015)

Bday participant of “Open Doors Poetry” at Donkey Coffee in Athens, Ohio (Sept. 2013)

Participant in IUPUI's "Student Reading Series" at Indy Reads Bookstore in Indianapolis (Nov. 2012)

Slam champion runner-up of "The Funness Slam” at the Irvington Theatre in Indianapolis (Aug. 2012)