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The Word Barn 66 Newfields Road, Exeter, New Hampshire, Ralph Sneeden reading with novelist and short story writer Paul Yoon (Once the Shore, Snow Hunters)
Southampton, NY
October 3, 2026: Reading from The Legible Element at the Rogers Memorial Library, an event sponsored by the North Sea Maritime Center. The Peconic Bay is certainly at the heart of a few of these essays, if not the soul of the book itself.
At my reading at Concord Art with Joan Wickersham, introduced by EastOver publisher Walter Robinson.
The Courtney Steel Lecture at Spence School in October 19, 2022. My first visit to NYC since the pandemic lockdown. What a great reason to return! “Nabokov’s Octopus: Landscape, Memory and History” was a tour of curated poems from Surface Fugue that described the aesthetic challenges of writing about place while negotiating ghosts and the murky layers of past events, violence. (Toni Morrison was the first speaker in this annual series that memorializes and commemorates the legacy of a former student).
Readings, Q&A’s—I’ve read from my own work and engaged with audiences at these and other venues:
The Word Barn (Exeter, NH)
The American School in London (UK)
Boston University Playwright's Theater (Agni magazine release)
The Blacksmith House Poetry Series (Cambridge, MA)
Bread Loaf School of English (Middlebury College, VT)
The Spence School (NYC)
The Cate School (Carpinteria, CA)
The Bishop’s School (La Jolla, CA)
The Common magazine issue release (Amherst, MA)
Duxbury Public Library (MA)
Massachusetts Poetry Festival
New Hampshire Poetry Festival
Phillips Exeter Academy (NH)
University of Vermont...and other bookstores and venues.
From top left, clockwise: At The Bishop’s School in San Diego, The Bowld at Phillips Exeter Academy., The Word Barn, and a conversation with fiction writer Paul Yoon at the American School in London.
September 15, 2018—Reading at the New Hampshire Poetry Fest with a panel of Exeter poets (Maggie Dietz, Todd Hearon, Matt Miller, and Willie Perdomo. Here from Not Here: Five-Transplant Poets to Coastal New Hampshire
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