Readings & Appearances

Upcoming Readings

4/1/2026
7:00 – 8:30 PM
Kicking off National Poetry Month with the Good Harbor Poets:
Kali Lightfoot, Rebecca Hart Olander, and Carla Panciera
Robbins Library
700 Massachusetts Ave.
Arlington, MA
4/18/2026
2:00 – 3:00 PM
“Good Harbor Poets and the Essential Community”
Panel at the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival with
Carla Panciera (moderator), Kali Lightfoot, and Rebecca Hart Olander
University of New Hampshire
Hamilton Smith Room 201
95 Main Street
Durham, NH 
4/19/2026
2:00 PM
Reading with Pamela Alexander
Brookline Poetry Series
Brookline Public Library
361 Washington Street
Brookline, MA
5/14/2026
7:00 – 8:30 PM
The Thursday Poets Reading Series
The Galleries at Lynn Arts (GALA)
25 Exchange Street
Lynn, MA
8/27/2026Reading with with the Good Harbor Poets:
Kali Lightfoot, Rebecca Hart Olander, and Carla Panciera
Book Love
7 Village Green S.
Plymouth, MA
9/1/2026
6:00 PM
Poetry Nashua
Nashua Public Library
2 Court Street
Nashua, NH
9/15/2026
7:00 – 8:30 PM
New Book Poetry and Open Mic
With Jean Flanagan, former Arlington Poet Laureate
Robbins Library
700 Massaschusetts Ave.
Arlington, MA
9/22/2026
7:00 PM
Reading with with the Good Harbor Poets:
Kali Lightfoot, Rebecca Hart Olander, and Carla Panciera
TidePool BookShop
372 Chandler St.
Worcester, MA
10/3/2026
2:00 PM
Reading with with the Good Harbor Poets:
Kali Lightfoot, Rebecca Hart Olander, and Carla Panciera
Wellfleet Public Library
55 West Main Street
Wellfleet, MA
10/8/2026
7:00 – 9:00 PM
2nd Thursday Poetry Reading
With Carla Panciera and Scott Withiam
Menino Arts Center
26 Central Avenue
Hyde Park, MA
7:00 – 8:30 PMPour Me a Poem (Poetry Open Mic)
Mansfield, MA

Past Readings

2/5/2026Guest on the Poet Talk podcast on WMUA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
4/29/2025Reading for The Silver Note: Poets of Arlington Massachusetts, with Hannah Baker-Siroty, Jessie Brown, Beth Kress, and Susan Lloyd McGarry, Arlington, MA
4/9/2024Improbable Places Poetry Tour at The Castle, Beverly, MA
3/21/2024Interview and reading with Jennifer Martelli and Colleen Michaels, SPARK podcast (YouTube)
2/8/2024New Ohio Review AWP 2024 Offsite Reading, St. Louis, MO
12/6/2023Speak Up! Spoken Word Series, Walnut Street Coffee Café, Lynn, MA
9/24/2023Incessant Pipe’s Ekphrastic Thing: 10 poets respond to 10 artists, Beverly, MA
7/6/2022Speak Up! Spoken Word Series, Walnut Street Coffee Café, Lynn, MA
6/4/2022Salem Arts Festival, with Kali Lightfoot and Blake Campbell, Salem, MA
12/14/2021Red Wheelbarrow 2021 launch reading (online)
4/25/2021Presence 2021 launch reading, online
2/17/2021Speak Up! Spoken Word Series, with Liz Hutchinson, Walnut Street Coffee Café, Lynn, MA
1/22/2020Speak Up! Spoken Word Series, with Liz Hutchinson, Walnut Street Coffee Café, Lynn, MA
5/11/2019A Celebration of the American Voice, Hale-Haskell House, Ispwich, MA
1/16/2019Speak Up! Spoken Word Series, with Liz Hutchinson, Walnut Street Coffee Café, Lynn, MA
6/10/2018Britt-Marie’s Second Sunday Poetry Series, with Edie Hartshorne and Jacqueline Berger, Albany, CA
5/11/2018A Celebration of the American Voice, Hale-Haskell House, Ispwich, MA
4/4/2018Community Poetry Reading, with Moira Linehan, Whitelam Books, Reading, MA
3/1/2018The Collected Poets Series, with Stella Corso, Shelburne Falls, MA
10/25/2017Speak Up! Spoken Word Series, Walnut Street Coffee Café, Lynn, MA
10/5/2017New England College Reading Series, with Martha Carlson-Bradley, Concord, NH
7/2/2017Joaquin Miller Poetry Series, with Devin Kelly, Rock Creek Nature Center Washington, DC
6/28/2017Weird Botany Poetry Reading with Margaret Young, Joey Gould, and J. D. Scrimgeour Beverley, MA
5/13/2017A Celebration of the American Voice, Hall-Haskell House, Ipswich, MA
4/13/2017The Cellar Continues, Beverly Depot, Beverly, MA
4/3/2017The Blue Room Sessions Open Mic, White Rose Coffeehouse, Lynn, MA
2/10/2017Gallery Reading by Stirring and Five Oaks Press (AWP), Gallery 1469, Washington, DC
9/18/2016The Improbable Places Poetry Tour, Green Meadows Farm, South Hamilton, MA
4/18/2015Feats of Poetic Strength Reading Series, Philadelpha, PA
3/18/2015Speak Up! Spoken Word Poetry Open Mic, Walnut Street Coffee Cafe, Lynn, MA
2/19/2015The Improbable Places Poetry Tour, Beverly, MA
8/9/2014Evil Grin Reading Series, with Isobel O’Hare, Annapolis, MD
12/17/2013Ibbetson Street Issues #33 and #34 Celebratory Reading, Somerville, MA
4/10/2013Červená Barva Press Studio, Somerville, MA