Daniel Brock Johnson

Reading with Regie Gibson and January Gil O'Neill at MassArt
2025-12-03 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | MA
I’ll be reading at MassArt with poets January Gil O’Neill and Regie Gibson, who was recently named the inaugural Massachusetts Poet Laureate. We’ll also be discussing our respective work building literary communities during a discussion immediately following. Join us for an inspired evening of poetry and conversation.

10/10 Performance with Dr. Ebele Okpokwasili-Johnson at Just Bookish
2025-10-10 18:45 - 20:00 | Just Bookish, 1463 Dorchester Ave, Boston, MA, United States
Join me and my wife Dr. Ebele Okpokwasili-Johnson as we perform a multimedia tribute to journalist James Foley on Friday, October 10th at 6:45 PM. Ebele and I will share original work from Shadow Act, including choral readings, song, photography, and video clips of James Foley’s war reporting. This is likely the last time we’ll be performing this piece in Boston, so we hope to see you there!

Amanda Uhle reads from "Destroy This House" at Harvard Book Store
2025-09-11 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
Following Amanda’s reading from her powerful, hilarious, gripping memoir Destroy This House, I’ll join Amanda in conversation about the book. Please come out and support my good friend Amanda, buy her book, and join me for what promises to be an inspired evening at Harvard Book Store.
About the author:
Amanda Uhle is Executive Director and Publisher of McSweeney’s, known for its award-winning quarterly literary journal, humor website and eclectic book publishing program, along with The Believer and Illustoria, an art and storytelling magazine for readers ages 6 to 11. She is co-founder, with Dave Eggers, of The International Congress of Youth Voices and co-editor of the I, Witness series of first-person stories by youth activists, published by Norton for Young Readers. She’s the occasional host of the author interview radio program and podcast, Living Writers. For more than 11 years, Uhle was executive director of 826michigan, a nonprofit tutoring and writing center for school-aged students in Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Ypsilanti. Uhle is deeply involved with numerous youth writing organizations, as documented in Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young Minds on Fire, and serves on the board of Young Authors Greenhouse in Louisville, Kentucky and Three Part Harmony Farm in Brandywine, Maryland. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Politico Magazine, Newsweek, ThinkProgress, The Boston Globe, Delacorte Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir, Destroy This House, is published by Simon & Schuster/Summit Books.

Daniel Johnson, Partridge Boswell, and Ann Bookman
2025-05-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Grolier Poetry Book Store, 6 Plympton Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Come out to the nation’s oldest poetry bookstore in Cambridge, MA for an inspired evening of poetry featuring three poets.

Brookline Booksmith
2024-08-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline, MA, 024462908

Rozzie Reads Poetry
2024-06-20 19:00 | Roslindale House, 120 Poplar Street, Roslindale, MA, 02131, United States
with Gloria Mindock

Spotty Dog Books & Ale
2024-06-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Spotty Dogs Books & Ale, 440 Warren St, Hudson, NY, 12534-2415

Book Signing at Freedom Awards with James Foley Legacy Foundation
2024-05-01 19:00 | National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor, Washington, DC, 20045

The Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival
2024-04-13 16:00 - 17:00 | University of New Hampshire, 18 Library Way, Durham, NH, 03824, United States

Northwestern University
2024-04-03 16:30 - 18:00 | Northwestern University, University Library, Fourth Floor lobby, 1970 Campus Drive,, Evanston, IL, 60208
Please join Northwestern University Libraries, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing and Communications, Knight Lab, and the James W. Foley Foundation in kicking off the opening of Inescapable Truths. This exhibit of artwork attempts to reclaim the legacy of American freelance war correspondent James Foley and acknowledge the universal concerns of journalists who seek the truth. Artist Bradley McCallum will speak about his artwork and Daniel Brock Johnson will read from his new book, Shadow Act: An Elegy for Journalist James Foley. Programming preceded by a reception with light refreshments. This event is free and open to the public.

Marquette University
2024-04-02 | Marquette University, 1250 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53233

Author visit to St. Sebastian's School
2024-02-23 | St. Sebastian’s School, 1191 Greendale Avenue, Needham, MA, 02492

Arlington Public Library
2023-12-19 20:00 | Robbins Library, 700 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA, 02476, United States

Joyce Linehan's Reading Series
2023-12-10 15:00 | MA

Chapter and Verse
2023-11-10 19:30 | The Loring Greenough House, 2 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA, 02130, United States

Blacksmith House Reading Series
2023-10-23 20:00 | Blacksmith House, 42 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
With Randall Mann

Book Signing
2023-10-21 12:30 - 14:00 | Rozzie Bound Co-op, 739 South Street, Roslindale, MA, 02131-2561, United States

Bedlam Book Cafe
2023-10-19 18:00 | Bedlam Book Cafe, 138 Green St, Suite #1, Worcester, MA, 01604, United States
With Oliver de la Paz

Cary Library Reading Series
2023-09-26 19:00 | Zoom
With Elizabeth Lund and Marian Shapiro

Readings from the Room
2023-09-19 19:00 - 19:30 | Zoom
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