EVENTS

Denise Low is available for readings, workshops, presentations, and Zoom events. She communicates poetic power of language in ways that inform and shape the lives of her audiences and students. Contact her at kansaspoetry [at] gmail.com   Prices are negotiable.

Available by Zoom, Facetime, and/or telephone for consultations and events as well as in-person in the San Francisco Bay Area and, depending on travel plans, Kansas/ Kansas City, DC, also other regions with travel support.

• July 27, 2026, Substack interview for Trio House Press with Lucille Lang Day. https://triohousepress.substack.com/p/full-interview-the-cosmos-and-me
• September 26, 2026, Ks. Book Festival, Topeka, Poets Denise Low (House of Grace, House of Blood), Gary Jackson (small lives), and Jennifer Maritza McCauley (Neon Steel). The Anti-Narrative, The rules of narrative are meant to be broken. Poets speak on what drew them to hybrid forms of storytelling. Moderator: Kansas Public Radio’s Kaye McIntyre Washburn University Library, Room 126, 3:00 pm,
• September 26, Ks. Book Festival, Topeka, Denise Low moderator, Two Western Kansas writers, Dennis Garcia (Las Madres: Latinas in the Heartland Who Led Their Families to Success) and Melissa Bonner Thomas (The Old Man of the Fossil Beds) tell the journeys of family members, showing us the importance of ties to family history and to place. Washburn University Library, Room 126, 2:00 pm
• December 18, 2026, Healdsburg, CA, The 222 Father Brendan Williams, chaplain of Bishop’s Ranch outside Healdsburg,  in conversation with Denise Low. The intersections of prayer and poetry are shared inspirations from religious texts for both of these poets. They will talk about biblical and other religious texts as subliminal cultural guides as well as deliberate choices they make in their respective practices. Paul Mahder Gallery, 222 Healdsburg Ave., 7 pm https://the222.org/productions/sherrie-smith-ferri-2/
• January 17, 2027, Healdsburg, CA, The 222, William Stafford Open Mic and Birthday Party, with Denise Low, emcee. Pacifist and poet William Stafford was a pioneer in the fields of eco-poetry, anti-war activism. Enjoy cake and bites. Sunday, 3-5 pm, 222 Healdsburg Ave. https://the222.org/productions/william-stafford-every-war-has-two-losers/
• Feb. 1, 2027 Rivertown Poets reading with Lucille Lang Day, Aqus Café, Petaluma CA 6 pm Monday, followed by an open mic. Foundry Wharf, 189 H Street. rivertownpoet@gmail.com
• June 4, 2027, Healdsburg, CA, The 222, A constellation of Bay Area poets, including Denise Low, perform pieces from Handbook of Foams by Gerardo Diego, translated by Francisco Aragón—arguably the least known of Spain’s “Generation of 27,” which included Federico García Lorca. Published in 1924, Manual de espumas was one of the most important eruptions in the early phase of the 20th century Spanish avant-garde. Each poet will read a piece by Diego, as well as a poem of their own “in conversation with” the Spanish poet. NOTE: The first thirty attendees will receive will be gifted one complimentary Handbook of Foams (one book per household), compliments of Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, a co-sponsor of this event. https://the222.org/productions/gerardo-diego-handbook-of-foams/

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