Featured Poet at Open Mic Reading
Friday, March 28, 5:30 PM
CalvArts Gallery, Prince Frederick 

A Tribute to Lucille Clifton
Thursday, Feb 21, (7:00pm)
Proshansky Auditorium, New York, NY 

A Tribute to Lucille Clifton
Thursday, Jun 24, 2010 (6:30 p.m.)
Eoch Pratt Central Library, Baltimore

Publication Celebration:  The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010 BOA Ltd
September 20, 2010
Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL

Returning Your Heart to Itself:  Poetry and the Opening Door
Oct 26-28, 2012
Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center  With Michael and Kathleen Glaser

Come Celebrate with Me: A Commemoration of the Life and Poetry of Lucille Clifton
November 2, 2012   7:30 p.m.
The College of Southern Maryland Leonardtown Campus

Art and Social Justice: the power of poetry for exploring values-based choices
Thursday, Nov. 8, 12:30 p.m.
 Coastal Carolina University 

Other Past Appeareances

The Enoch Pratt Free library, Paul Peck Institute for American Culture and Civic Engagement, Anne Arundel Community College, Baltimore Ethical Society, Gunston School, Chestertown, MD., The Bay to Ocean Writer’s Conference, The University of Maryland, DeSales University in Pennsylvania,  Split this Rock in Washington, D.C., The Key School, Annapolis, The Unitarian Universalist Church, Annapolis, The Calvert, Chestertown, Dorchester, Kent, Talbot, Worchester, Wicomico and St. Mary’s County Public  Libraries,  The Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD,  Mt. Airy Mansion, Upper Marlboro, The b.b. Bistro, Annapolis, Frederick Community College, Hood College, The College of Southern Maryland, Poetry at Churchill’s, Pottstown, PA.,  St. John’s College, Annapolis,  War-Wic College, Salisbury, The Kensington Row Bookshop, Washington, D.C., The Easton Arts Center, The National Cathedral, Wesleyan Theological Seminary,  The Ambassador II, Palm Beach, FL. Maryvale School, Brooklandville, MD., Poetry in the Park, Annapolis, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL.

Some past Keynote addresses:

The Jewish Museum of Maryland; Maryland Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped; Maryland Environmental Educators; Costal Librarians Assoc.; World Artists Experiences (for MD. International Education Month); Kreykenbohm, Lecture, Hagerstown Community College; National Cathedral, Cathedral College Conference:  Approaching God through Poetry

; Washington County Public Schools