2023

• Solarities 2: A Contemporary Poetry Reading Series w/ Stacy Szymaszek, hosted by Tessa Bolsover + Michael Cavuto, sponsored by The Franklin Humanities Institute | Duke University, Durham, NC

• Paradiso Reading Series | Reading w/ Stacy Szymaszek, Cassandra Gillig, hosted by Noah Ross + Claire Grossman | The Finnish Hall, Berkeley, CA.

• Readings at Parkside | Teeter Book Launch w/ David Grubbs, Kyle Dacuyan, Betsy Fagin, hosted by Ann Stephenson + Tent Editions | Parkside Lounge, New York, NY.

• Reading w/ Marcella Durand, hosted by Michael Gottleib & Evelyn Reilly | Familiar Trees, Great Barrington, MA [video]

• A Late Summer Reading w/ Alexis Almeida, Joey Yearous-Algozin, Stacy Szymaszek, hosted by Vlad Nahitchevansky | 1080 Press, Kingston, NY.

• Reading w/ Ethan Chua, Emily Lee Luan, Monica Sok for Ethan Chua’s Sky Ladders Chapbook Launch | P&T Knitwear, New York, NY.

• The Ingenious Mode: Expanding the Experimental Impulse of Poetry—A Gathering | Reading w/ Farnoosh Fathi & Darci Dennigan, Rosamond S. King + Cynthia Oliver + Jason Finkelman, Kamikaze Jones, Carla Harryman & Co., Tracie Morris, Nate Santana (Dead Society Poetry), the Schoemer/Parashi Duo | The Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY [video]

• Catskills Book Fair | Reading w/ Sam Truitt, Stacy Szymaszek, Danniel Schoonebeek, Erin Fleming, Ted Dodson, hosted by Jared Daniel Fagen | Union Grove Distillery, Arkville, NY.

• Exquisites Reading Series | Reading w/ Rebecca Teich, Stacy Szymaszek, Margaret Rhee, Nicole Wallace, hosted by Danilo Machado & Em Marie Kohl | Art Cafe & Bar, Brooklyn, NY.

• Dialog and Dialogues: A Night of Performed Words w/ Ben Vida/Lea Bertucci/Ric Royer, Stephanie Barber | Time & Space Limited, Hudson NY.

• Triptych: A reading, a screening and a dance party: Kimberly Alidio, Nic Anstett, Carolina Ebeid, Francesca Ekwuyasi, Youngseo Lee, Sophie Paquette, Karisma Price, Phoebe Oathout, Rachel Paris Wimer, hosted by TriQuarterly, Denver Quarterly/FIVES & Southwest Review | Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA.

• Belladonna* presents Kimberly Alidio, Simone Kearney, and Cait O'Kane | The Poetry Project | St. Mark’s Church-in-the Bowery, New York, NY.

• Launch of Stacy Szymaszek’s Famous Hermits, with Stacy Szymaszek, Kimberly Alidio, Brenda Coultas, & Rachel Levitsky | Time & Space Limited, Hudson, NY [video].

• If We Were To Be the Same Degree of Spoken: A Rail Reading curated by Daniel Owen, feat. Owen, Kimberly Alidio, Corina Copp, Mikael Johani, Violet Spurlock, hosted by Anselm Berrigan | The New Social Environment #742 | The Brooklyn Rail [video].

• The Poetry Project 49th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon | St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, New York, NY.

2022

• New Writing, New Languages, an in-person writing workshop | The Flow Chart Foundation’s Text Kitchen, Hudson, NY.

• Kimberly Alidio & Rae Armantrout, introduced by Gia Gonzales | Segue Reading Series, curated by Nightboat Books | Artists Space, New York, NY.

• SPEECH | STATES: Interdisciplinary Performance Series, w/ Anaïs Maviel, Charlotte Stickles, hosted by Cat Tyc + Miriam Atkin| Hudson House, Hudson, NY.

• Desperate Living Reading Series w/ Imani Elizabeth Jackson, David Morse, Nicole Wallace, hosted by Rebecca Teich + Ry Dunn | Happyfun Hideaway, Brooklyn, NY.

• An Evening of Poetry: Reading w/ Stacy Szymaszek + Miriam Atkin, hosted by Linda Mussmann, introduced by Claudia Bruce | Time & Space Limited, Hudson, NY (video)

• Close Readings in a Virtual Space | On Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge’s “Texas,” hosted by Jeffrey Lependorf (reading group) | The Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY (video)

• ”Just speak nearby”: Dis/Course with Kimberly Alidio, hosted by Laura Henriksen (hybrid workshop/ reading group) | The Poetry Project, New York, NY

• Woodland Pattern 28th Annual Poetry Marathon | Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI (video)

• Belladonna* holiday fête, mini online art auction, and reading w/ Rachel Levitsky, Sawako Nakayasu, Asiya Wadud, Carla Harryman, Samuel Ace, Sarah Riggs, Tonya Foster, Zoe Tuck, Julie Patton, Krystal Languell, James Loop, Erica Hunt, Marcella Durand, Lyn Hejinian, La Tasha N. Nevada Diggs, Anne Waldman, hosted by Jennifer Firestone | New York, NY (video)

• The Poetry Project 48th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon | St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, New York, NY (video).

2021

• St. Rocco's 4th Annual Midwinter Day Reading w/ Tender Buttons Press, Benefit Fundraiser for Bernadette Mayer (video).

• Resistance Resilience Alliance | Reading w/ Aja Couchois Duncan & Allison Cobb, hosted by Mary Burger | Wrapped w/ Alison OK Frost, Emily Gui, Marianne McCraney | ArtemisSF, San Francisco, CA (video)

• Book Launch of Marthe Reed’s deposition | disposition: Climate Change in the Sundarbans w/ Laura Mullen, Angela Hume, Bhanu Kapil, Mark Lamoureux, Anastacia-Reneé, hosted by Carla Hall | Kelsey Street Press, Berkeley, CA (video)

• Frank O’Hara’s Last Lover Reading Series | Reading w/ Gabriel Kruis, Matt Longabucco, Stacy Szymaszek, hosted by Jason Mitchell | Sam’s Morning Glory Diner, Philadelphia, PA

• Reading w/ Gabriel Kruis, Matt Longabucco, Stacy Szymaszek, introduced by K. Lorraine Graham | Rhizome DC, Washington D.C

• Crush Reading Series #27 w/ Emily Brandt, erica kaufman, Shanekia McIntosh, Stacy Szymaszek, Nora Treatbaby, hosted by Suzanne Goldenberg | Store Space Gallery, Kingston, NY

• Remotely Personal Greetings (Poetry reading slideshow) w/ Jeff Alessandrelli, Filip Marinovich, JD Pluecker, introduced by Jeffrey Joe Nelson | Brooklyn, NY

• MFA in Creative Writing Graduate Reading (Poetry video screening) w/ Kim Bussing, Marianna ColesCurtis, Katerina Ivanov, Lucy Kirkman, Hea-Ream Lee, Matthew Morris, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Logan Phillips, Matisse Rosen, Margo Steines, Emma Thomason, introduced by Alison Hawthorne Deming | University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (video)

• National Poetry Month Reading (Poetry video screening) w/ antmen pimentel mendoza, S. Brook Corfman, DeShara Shuggs-Joe, Suzanne Highland, t. liem, blkcowrie, Urvi Kumbhat, Rosie Stockton, Alice Liang, alexis aceves garcia | Apogee Journal (video)

• why letter ellipses Book Launch w/ Ronaldo Wilson, Edgar Garcia, Jackie Wang, hosted & introduced by Fred Moten | New York University Department of Performance Studies, New York, NY. (Recap)

• Readings In Borderlandia w/ Andrea Muñoz Martinez | Dogs Heal in Borderlandia Exhibition | Link & Pin Gallery, Austin, TX; recording is here.

• Woodland Pattern 27th Annual Poetry Marathon | Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI (video)

• Marble Hill Camera Club (Poetry reading and slideshow)| Juneau, AL + New York, NY

• The Poetry Project 47th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon (video)

2020

• Kimberly Alidio & M. NourbeSe Philip, introduced by Kyle Dacuyan | The Poetry Project, New York, NY

• The Bridgewater International Poetry Festival | Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA

• Joyelle McSweeney & Kimberly Alidio, introduced by Venn Daniel | Segue Reading Series | New York, NY

• HIGH DAWN 2 w/ Jameson Fitzpatrick & Danishta Rivero, introduced by Eric Sneathen| Small Press Traffic + UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium, San Francisco, CA

• Kimberly Alidio, Sophia Dahlin, Charlie Shields | Small Press Distribution & Moe’s Booksellers, Berkeley, CA

• POG & Friends (Poetry reading)| POG | Tucson, AZ

• : once teeth bones coral : Book Launch w/ Gabrielle Civil, francis lo, Krystal Languell, Anne Waldman, introduced by James Loop | Belladonna* Collaborative | Brooklyn, NY

• The New Social Environment: Do We Need Monuments? (Poetry reading) | The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, NY

• periodicities virtual reading series | Toronto, CA

2019

• “Rootpoet”: Poetry & Procedures of Ethical Memory (Event curator and creative presentation) w/ Matisse Rosen, Sophia Terazawa | Jewish History Museum, Tucson, AZ

• A Century (Event curator) w/ Carolyn Ferrucci, Ariel Goldberg, Saretta Morgan | American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings, Tucson, AZ

• Myriam Moscona & Jen Hofer & JD Pluecker (Event introduction) | University of Arizona Poetry Center + The Jewish History Museum, Tucson, AZ

• The Sky Forever (Recorded poetry reading for movement performance) w/ Andee Scott, Errin Delperdang, Dany Casey, Olivia Whitmer | OUTsider Festival | Austin, TX

• Reading w/ Katerina Ivanov, Matt Morris | University of Arizona MFA WIP | Cafe Passé, Tucson, AZ

• Fair Weather Reading Series w/ Vi Khi Nao | Casa Libre | The Royal Room, Tucson, AZ

2018

• Counter-Desecration: Critical Making for Catastrophic Times Reading w/ cris cheek, Shanna Compton, Jill Darling, Aja Couchois Duncan, Suzi F. Garcia, Brenda Iijima, Dana Teen Loma, Linda Russo | &Now Festival of Innovative Writing | University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

• Co-Dependencies: Affected Bodies & the Languages of Personhood (Creative presentation) w/ Michelle Detorie, Brenda Iijima, Janice Lee, Soham Patel | &Now Festival of Innovative Writing | University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

• Feeling upon Arrival by Saretta Morgan Book Launch Reading w/ Natalie Diaz, Youna Kwak, Felicia Zamora | FUTURO, Phoenix, AZ

• I Scream Social Featured Poetry Reader | Malvern Books, Austin, TX

• Pilipinx/Filipinx Poetics (Creative presentation) w/ Hari Alluri, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Jade Phoenix Martinez, Angela Peñaredondo | New Orleans Poetry Festival | New Orleans, LA

• The Feeling Archive (Creative/scholarly presentation) w/ Michelle N. Huang, Muriel Leung, MT Vallarta | Association of Asian American American Studies | San Francisco, CA

• Aural Literature Reading Series (Poetry reading) w/ Tez Figueroa & Timothy Dailey-Valdés, hosted by Sam Treviño, Chicon Street Poets | Austin Public Library, Austin, TX

2017

• Modes of Alteration (Panel co-curator + discussant) w/ Kay Ulanday Barrett, Angela Peñaredondo, Jai Arun Ravine, Bishakh Som | Thinking its Presence | University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• I Scream Social (Poetry reading) w/ Amanda Johnston, Lisa Moore, hosted by Annar Verold | Malvern Books, Austin TX

• Poetry reading (Curator) ft Ching-in Chen w/ mónica teresa ortiz | Malvern Books, Austin, TX

• Poetry reading ft. Ching-in Chen w/ JD Pluecker | Brazos Bookstore, Houston, TX

• Featured Poetry Reader w/ Hoa Nguyen, hosted by Kirby | knife fork book, Toronto, ON

• Self-Articulation & Solidarity (Creative presentation) w/ Vidhu Aggarwal, Ching-in Chen, Tiana Nobile | New Orleans Poetry Festival | New Orleans, LA

• Poetry in the Dark Series (Poem installation) | Prizer Arts & Letters Gallery, Austin, TX

• National Poetry Month (Poetry reading)| Austin Public Library, Austin, TX

• Poetics of Self [Re/De] Construction (Poetry reading) w/ Belinda Bellinger, Chen Chen, Ching-in Chen, Kazumi Chen, Michelle Lin, Angela Peñaredondo, Melissa R. Sipin, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal | Lambda LitFest | Los Angeles, CA

• Resound, Roots, Revitalize Our Roots (Artist talk) w/ Trinh Mai, hosted by Sarah Rafael García + Libromobile | California State University, Fullerton Grand Art Center, Santa Ana, CA

• Poetics, Film (Poetry reading) w/ Kenji C. Liu, Hari Alluri, Gail Gutierrez, hosted by Jason Magabo Perez | Kaya Books & Kundiman SoCal | Other Books, Los Angeles, CA

• Bodies in Spaces Forced to Accommodate (Featured poetry reader) w/ Jen Hofer, Micah Tasaka, Sa Whitley, Angela Peñaredondo | Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles, CA

• Featured poetry reader w/ Jesse Nissim, Brenda Serpick | Red Emma’s, Baltimore, MD

• Poetry reading w/ mónica teresa ortiz, Fernando Flores, Stephanie Goering | Chicon Street Poets at Terrazas Public Library | Austin, TX

2016

• Poetry reading ft. Megan Kaminski w/ JD Pluecker, Fernando Flores | smoking glue gun | Austin, TX

• Poetry reading w/ Dalton Day, Jessica Hincapie, Felix Morton, Chessy Normile, Jesus Valles | smoking glue gun | Bolm Studios, Austin, TX

• After projects the resound Book Launch w/ Morgan Collado, kt shorb | Malvern Books, Austin, TX

• Ecopoetics and Subjectivity (Creative panel presentation) w/ Megan Kaminski, Sueyuen Juliette Lee, Marthe Reed | New Orleans Poetry Festival | New Orleans, LA

• Against Apartheid: Modern Language Association Off-site Event | Poetry reading w/ Amy Carroll, Jeff Sacks, David Lloyd, Fady Joudah, mónica teresa ortiz | Farewell Books, Austin, TX

2015

• The Sleeping Together Tour (Poetry reading) w/ Emji Spero, Joel Gregory | Timeless, Infinite Light | Malvern Books, Austin, TX

• TELL EVEN US: Videos by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Poetry reading) w/ Charles Alexander, Nayantara Bhattacharya, Kyle Schlesinger | Experimental Response Cinema | grayDUCK Gallery, Austin, TX

• Poetry reading w/ Sarah Rafael Garcia, Chloe Chon, Loyce Gayo | Women and Fair Trade Festival | Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera | First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, Austin, TX

2014

• #FTW, #WTF, #Fail, and #OMG (Scholarly panel presentation) w/ Johanna Almiron, Jan Christian Bernabe, Sarah Lozier, Valerie Soe, Harrod J. Suarez | American Studies Association | Los Angeles, CA

2013

• Small Press Traffic’s Endless Summer | Berkeley Public School, Oakland, CA.

2011

• AWP Offsite reading w/ JoAnn Balingit, Kathleen Hellen, W. Todd Kaneko, Rajiv Mohabir, Kristine Uyeda, Angela Veronica Wong | Lantern Review & Boxcar Poetry Review | Washington, D.C.

• Before This Was Texas (Recorded poetry reading for movement performance) w/ Krysta Gonzales, Saray Rosales, kt shorb | Generic Ensemble Company | University of Texas at Austin Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX

• The Zora Neale Hurston Scholarship Reading | Summer Writing Program, Jack Kerouac School | Naropa University, Boulder, CO

• Poetry reading w/ Amanda Johnston, Erika Gonzalez, Chandra Washington, Lisa Sweeney | Red Salmon Arts Cafe Libro | Resistencia Bookstore, Austin, TX

• Poetry reading w/ Barbara Henning, hosted by Hoa Nguyen | Skanky Possum | Austin, TX

2010

• Thinking Human (Scholarly lecture)| Asian American Studies Program, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

• Filipino Labor Migrants and Indigenous Communities in the American Pacific (Scholarly panel presentation) w/ Robin Li, Anna Pegler-Gordon, Frank Wu | Organization of American Historians | Washington, D.C.

2007

• Transcultural Encounters and Performativity (Scholarly panel presentation) w/ Kevin Fellezs, kt shorb, Sarita See, Grace Wang | Association for Asian American Studies | New York, NY

• Philippine Palimpsests (Scholarly roundtable presentation) | University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL

• Asia’s America (Scholarly panel discussant) w/ Lane Hirabayashi, Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Aisha Khan, Lok Siu | University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

2006

• The Temperate and the Torrid (Scholarly panel presentation) w/ Paul Kramer, Vina Lanzona, JoAnna Poblete-Cross | Center for Philippine Studies | Honolulu, HI

• Latino “America”: Creating Meaning, Restructuring Lives (Scholarly panel presider & commenter) w/ Tomás Summers Sandoval, Jr., Jason Ferreira, Nancy Mirabal, Horacio Roque Ramirez | Organization of American Historians | Washington, DC

• Mediating Identities (Scholarly panel presentation) w/ Ana Maria Mauad, Liz Stanley, and Tyler Stovall | Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley

2003

• Seeing Race (Scholarly panel chair & discussant) w/ Adriana Ayala, Rebecca Montes, Lilia D. Rosas, Isabela S. Quintana | Western Association of Women Historians | Berkeley, CA

2001

• Schooling, Race, and the Making of Nations (Scholarly panel presentation) w/ Paul Kramer, Kate Masur, Robert S. Wolff | American Historical Association | Boston, MA

1998

• The Empire in the Archive (Scholarly panel presentation) w/ Licia Fiol-Matta, Javier Morillo-Alicea, Frances Negrón-Muntaner | American Studies Association | Seattle, WA

• Legacies of 1898 (Scholarly panel presentation) w/ John McKiernan-Gonzalez, Javier Morillo-Alicea | Society for Applied Anthropology | San Juan, Puerto Rico

1993

• Filipino Subjectivity and The Chicago School of Sociology (Scholarly invited lecture), University of Michigan Intellectual History Colloquium, hosted by Richard Cándida-Smith | Ann Arbor, MI

Event Introduction

Where moments of crisis are also moments of faith in the healing force of language thriving in an alternate universe of valuation, the small presses we hold dear — Black Radish to Belladonna* to Yo-Yo’s flowing from the Dancing Girl’s wrists. Kimberly knows many of us work our I’s out in our books, our books working out our I’s, allowing for a breathing space where empire and Filipinx may be examined and aired, the projection of the field humming like a vibration attuned to frequency of muse, a communion between poet & page, word & movement, utterance & gesture. When we help the dreamer create the vision in the waking world, Kimberly knows rookie mistakes are par for the course, mistakes bring us into shaping our creation. What we do in the work & what we do in the reading may not always be the same thing, but, if the act is deeply felt, she feels the bodies and minds in attendance may move with us. So as humans in constant states of transition, let us attend to what is present & already arriving, let us give attention to the words at hand and experience the synesthesia Kimberly Alidio’s work creates together, dear audience. — Jeffrey Joe Nelson, Remotely Personal Greetings Readings