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 Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival
with Gloria Mindock
Come out to the nation's oldest poetry bookstore in Cambridge, MA for an inspired evening of poetry featuring three poets.
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 […]
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 […]
Intercollegiate Poetry Conference, Keynote Address, Boston College, April 2022
Poems at Work, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, April, 2019
Writers Room of Boston Reading, Jamaica Plain, MA, June, 2018
Presentation of work-in-progress, Central Square Theater, Cambridge, MA, April, 2017
A Symposium on the Life & Writing of James Foley, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 2016