Revolution Books, Sun. July 17, 2016, 3 pm, with Don Kentop. I read women's voices in Don's Frozen By Fire: A Documentary in Verse of the Triangle Factory Fire, 1911 - for a review of the book: http://www.quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2015/bookreview.html
Poets Against Hate @ Poets in the Park, Redmond, WA. June 25, 2016
It's About Time #318- An Interview in Verse with Esther & Mitra Lofti Shemirani: Poets Against Hate, April 18, 2016, Seattle Public Library, Ballard Branch, 6:45 pm
Listening to Mozart Concert, Haller Lake United Methodist Church Music Series, March 6, 2016, 2 pm
Poets Against Hate, Feb 13, 2016, 2-5 pm, Seattle Public Library Central Branch
Jan 8, 2016
The Art of Alzheimer's: The Artist Within Reading, Seattle City Hall, Jan. 20, 2016 noon
Ravenna Third Place Books "Into the Storm: Journey with Alzheimer's" reading, with Collin Tong & others, May 1, 2014, 7 pm
Elliott Bay Book Co, "Into the Storm: Journeys with Alzheimer's" LAUNCH, March 16, 2014, 3 pm
Frye Art Museum, with Tess Gallagher, Holly Hughes, & Ann Hedreen, Thurs Feb 27, 6:30 p.m.
Ravenna Third Place Books, Sun Nov 17, 2013, 4 pm
Merrill Gardens at the University, Tues Nov 12, 2013, 2 pm
Greenwood Senior Center/Phinney Ridge Community, Fri Oct. 18, 2013, 3 pm
Elliott Bay Book Co, Dear Alzheimer's Book Launch, Sept 8, 2013
It's About Time Writers #286, Ballard Library with Laura Lucas, Loreen L Lee, Theo Nester, Aug 8, 2013
Soul Food Poetry Books with Joan Swift, June 20, 2013
Abe Keller Peace Education Fundraiser with Diane Westergaard, Jule Tripp Weaver, Georgia Stewart McDade, Katleen Flennikin, Nov 27, 2012
Seattle Poetry Garden with Ann Teplick for Jack Straw Productions, Oct 21, 2012
Poetry Against Hunger with Arleen Williams, Douglass P. Johnson, Pamela Carter, Denise Calvetti Michaels, Katy E. Ellis, T'Latte Coffee & Tea House, May 26, 2011
Redmond Association of the Spoken Word with Ann Teplick, Old Redmond Schoolhouse, Jan 28, 2011
Seattle Public Library, Final 2010 Jack Straw Reading Nov 13, 2010
SAM WORD with Jack Straw Poets, Seattle Art Museum, October 21, 2010
Elliott Bay Book Company with Jack Straw Poets Bill Carty, Tara Roth, Brian Barr, Nov 7, 2010
Jack Straw Studios with Martha Clarkson, Michael Dylan Welch, Marjorie Manwaring, May 14, 2010
Ravenna Third Place Books, with DRASH contributors, May 31, 2009
Frye Art Museum, with Beyond Forgetting contributors, May 3, 2009
Irene Drennan Memorial with Diane Westergaard & Denise Calvetti Michaels, Richard Hugo House, March 1, 2009
Jack Straw Production Studios with Pontoon10 contributors, 2008
Seattle Public Library, Nov. 2007
Prose West at Epilogue Books, August 9, 2006
Poet's West at Epilogue Books, July 2006
Elliott Bay Book Company with Olivia Dresher and Friends, reading from In Pieces: Anthology of
Fragmentary Writing, June 17, 2006, 4:30 pm
Older Women's League (OWL) with Irene Drennan & Diane Westergaard, University House,
Sat. Sept 11, 2004
Ravenna Third Place Books, with Diane Westergaard, Irene Drennan, Pesha Gertler & Denise
Calvetti Michaels, Sunday, May 2, 2004
Barnes & Noble's Lynnwood, with Gloria Burgess, Michael Dylan Welch & Irene Drennan
Friday April 23, 2004
Poets in the Park, Sun. April 4, 2004
Temple Beth Am, January 10, 2004
Lottie Motts, Oct 24, 2003
Ravenna Third Place Books, Aug 21, 2003
Ravenna Third Place Books, , Feb. 25, 2003
Learning Through the Arts: Holocaust Experience Shared, North Seattle Community College, April 18, 2000
Richard Hugo House Faculty Reading, Elliot Bay Book Store, April 8, 2000
Elliott Bay Chamber of Commerce with Irene Drennan, 2000
After Long Silence Reading Series for Women Poets and Writers, 11/19/99
Hospice of Seattle: A Celebration of Remembrance, Frye Art Museum, Spring 1999
Poets West, Barnes and Noble, Issaquah, Fall 1999
Poets West, Frye Museum, Spring 1999
Wit's End Book Store, Nov. 13, 1999
Seattle Love of Life Poets, Barnes and Noble, U. Village, 1996-1998
"Ernesto Cardinal," Silenced at the Borders: Banned Books Week, Seattle Public Library, Sept. 25, 1997
"Readings on Themes of Freedom and Light," Tree of Life Judaica & Books, Dec. 3, 1997
Seattle Public Library, Banned Books Reading for Poetry Month, April 1998
Castalia Reading Series, University of Washington, various readings, 1982 - 1990
Papers, Talks, and Panels
"Dr. Edith Buxbaum and the Development of Seattle Psychoanalytic History," University of Washington, "History of Psychology" class, May 19, 2011
Panel Moderator: "Writing Women's Biography" with Dorothy Cordova, Mildred Andrews, Susan Starbuck - PEN Washington, Seattle chapter of PEN International Richard Hugo House, Seattle, Tues. November 16, 2004
"Writing Edith Buxbaum" ProseWest Reading Series, Wit's End Bookstore, Seattle Wed. May 19, 2004
Poetry Panel: "Process and Product" Redmond Association of Spokenword, "Poets in the Park" Weekend, Clise Mansion in Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA., Sun. April 4, 2004
"Dr. Edith Buxbaum and the Application of Psychoanalytic Pedagogy in Post-World War II Seattle" Pacific Northwest Historian's Guild Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, Sat, Mar. 6, 2004
Writing "The Homeless One: A Poem in Many Voices," Abnormal Psychology class,
Cascadia Community College, November 3, 2003
Northwest Bookfest, Spoken Word Panel, October 18, 2003
Reading Shirley Kaufman with Linda Clifton, Emily Warn, Ken Shiovitz
& Pesha Gertler, Temple Beth Am, June 15, 2003
Censorship and the Development of A Writing Self, Censorship and the Right to Dissent Panel, PEN Washington, April 15, 2003
Red-Diaper Baby, The Writer and Politics Panel, PEN Washington, Aug. 20, 2002
The Poet's Words. Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry Peace
Reading Seattle Public Library, March 2002
Irena Klepfisz and the Poetry of Exile. North Seattle Community College, 1999
Edith Buxbaum, Women's Biography and the Writing Process, University of Washington, Independent Women's Scholar's Group, 1995
Edith Buxbaum, Ph.D., Child Psychoanalyst - The Seattle Years: 1947 - 1982, Oral History Workshop #41: Women in the Early History of American Psychoanalysis, American Psychoanalytic Association, 12/94
Irena Klepfisz's Keeper of Accounts and Cynthia Ozik's `The Shawl,' University of Washington, Women's Studies, 1993
Themes of Home, Exile, Self and Other in Irena Klepfisz's Early 1970's poem, `Death Camp,' University of Washington, Women's Studies, Oct. 1992
Irene Kelpfisz, Jewish Feminism and the Construction of a Social Self: A Psychoanalytic-Feminist Perspective, Judaism, Feminism and Psychology Conference: Creating a Shelter in the Wilderness, Nov. 1, 1992.
Jewish Feminism and Identity Politics, National Women's Studies Association, Towson University, Towson, Md., Nov. 1989
Women and Creativity, Panel on Women's Creativity, Women's Studies, University of Washington, 1989
"Midrash on Ruth and Naomi," Torah and Blintzes: Tikun Lail Shavuot Study Vigil, Congregation Beth Shalom, June 8, 1989
Jewish Women's Spirituality, Edmonds Community College, 1980s
Women's Clubs, YWCA, 1980s
National Council of Jewish Women, Seattle Section, Women's History Conference, University of Washington, 1980s
Jewish Women's Spirituality, Conference on Women's Spirituality, Antioch University, Seattle, 1981
Origins of the Seattle Council of Jewish Women: 1900-1910, Early Seattle Panel, Seattle Women's History Week, University of Washington, March 12, 1981
Women's Role at Congregation Beth Shalom, Seattle, Museum of History and Industry, Washington State Women's History Panel, 1980
National Women's Party and the Equal Rights Amendment, Western Washington University, 1972