Curatorial and Research Experience

Curatorial Experience
Segue Foundation (1993-Present), New York City, Curator

Participate in long-running collective which programs and hosts weekly poetry reading in Manhattan at The Ear Inn, Here and currently, Double Happiness.

Curate and produce programs of “Cinemaki,”  a series exploring parallel and intersecting practices between poetry and film, grants from NYFA & the Experimental Television Center.

The Poetry Project at Saint Mark’s Church (1988-1991), New York City, Monday Night Reading Series Coordinator & Program Assistant

  • Curated and hosted the Monday Night Series for “emerging” poets and performers.
  • Organized benefits, fundraising, and membership drives.
  • Coordinated Writing Workshops.
  • Catalogued tape and publication archives.

Collective for Living Cinema, (Spring 1987), New York City, Festival Intern. Assisted curators, Yvonne Ranier and Berenice Reynaud in producing the Third World Women’s Film Festival

Research Experience
Artists’ Assistant (1988-1991), New York City
Assisted poets Jackson Mac Low, Allen Ginsberg, poet and librettist Kenward Elmslie, painter Sylvia Sleigh, and playwright Richard Foreman with manuscript preparation, archival work and other projects.

Research Assistantship (Fall 1985), France & England
Assisted and traveled in France and England with author, Carol Cooke researching her book, Through a Glass Darkly, a fictional biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine.