what are sweat & tears
but drops of pin?
but salt circles?
but clepsydra water clocks?
And us but vessels who keep losing
our ways, only finding fresh And
intimate questions
– from _Growing & Positioning Systems (GPS)_ published in Borderlands: Texas Review, Spring 2020
Upcoming Events
Host / Adams County Poet Laureate Open Mic series / Manos Sagrados / Aurora, CO / February 5, 2026
Featured Performer / BHM Poetry Slam / Metro State University / Denver, CO / February 11, 2026
Featured poet for Poetry Brothel Denver: DEVOTION / The Poetry Society of New York / Prismajic / Lakewood, CO / February 14, 2025
Participating poet for DAM x Slam Nuba poetry Slam / Denver Art Museum / Denver, CO / February 21, 2025
Featured poet for offsite events / Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference / Baltimore, MA / March 4-7, 2026
Wednesday evening March 4th from 7 to 9pm at Fadensonnen wine lounge with Abode Press celebrating forthcoming chapbook BODYPOLITIC
Thursday evening Mar 5th with Cobra Milk Magazine, details TBA
Friday Mar 6th book signing at Abode Press booth, 12:30-1:30pm
Saturday Mar 7th book signing at Letras Latinas book, 12:00-1:00pm
BODYPOLITIC book tour / Denver metro area / March & April 2026 (Open for bookings!)
March 15, Sunday afternoon 10am-12pm MST virtual poetry workshop on BODY POETICS with Abode Press
March 21, Saturday evening 6pm-8pm MST, book release reading at Counterpath in Denver, CO. Featured guest readers TBA.
March 24, Tuesday evening, book release reading at Trident Bookstore & Café in Boulder, CO, featured reading and conversation with Liza Sparks
April 21, Tuesday evening 6:30-8:00pm MST, book release reading at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, CO. Featured guest readers TBA.
Featured Performer / Ralonda Simmons Memorial Reading / Metro State University / Denver, CO / April 13, 2026
Featured Performer / Pillow Fort: Soft Spaces for Hard Times interactive poetry experience / Redline Contemporary Art Gallery / Denver, CO / April 18, 2026
Past Events
2026
Featured poet for Listen To Your Skin 5 Year Anniversary show / Townhall Collaborative / Denver, CO / January 31, 2026
Honored Guest for Adams County Poet Laureate Welcome Reception / Adams County Government Building / Brighton, CO / January 22, 2026
Featured poet for American Heirlooms poetry & jazz music performance / Lighthouse Writers Workshop / Dazzle / January 7, 2026
Featured poet for Jazzetry / Trident Bookstore & Café / Boulder, CO / January 3, 2026
2025
Featured poet for 40 West Anthology Release / Mint & Serif / Lakewood, CO / December 13, 2025
Featured poet for Sacred Voices End of Year Fundraiser / KGNU Studio / Denver, CO / December 12, 2025
Workshop Facilitator: “Word/Play” / Sundress Academy for the Arts / Virtual/Zoom event / December 10, 2025
Featured poet for Blue Hour / ACT studio / Centennial, CO / November 15, 2025
Featured speaker for 2025 Image Summit / Waymire Dome / Brighton, CO / November 5, 2025
Featured poet for Octubre: A Reading by Colorado Latine Authors / Petals & Pages / Denver, CO / October 28, 2025
Featured poet for Poetry Brothel Denver: SEANCE / The Poetry Society of New York / Merkaba / Denver, CO / October 24, 2025
Featured Panelist / Queer Creatives Fest Artist Talk / Lighthouse Writers Workshop / Denver, CO / October 11, 2025
Snap Crackle Poetry Featured Performer / South Broadway Press / Mutiny Comics & Coffee / Englewood, CO / August 10, 2025
Featured Performer / Gender Euphoria burlesque variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / June 27, 2025
Featured author panelist / Discussion with Chapbook Authors / Abode Press Virtual Writing Retreat / Virtual / June 23, 2025
CantoMundo retreat reading / Arizona State University / Tempe, AZ / June 19, 2025
Sacred Voices featured poet / Denver Media Center / Denver, CO / June 13, 2025
Hidden Gems showcase featured poet / The Marigold / Denver, CO / June 7, 2025
Five Years of Queer Poem-a-Day: A Virtual Celebration featured poet / Deerfield Public Library / Virtual / Saturday, June 7, 2025
Music & Poetry Recital of MISEDUCATION 2nd year anniversary event / Counterpath / Denver, CO / May 17, 2025
Chapbook Release event for Ajanae Dawkins’ BLOODFLEX feature performer / New Delta Review / Online / May 12, 2025
My Debut Spoken Word album Listening Party / MOYO arts / Denver, CO / May 10, 2025
Featured poet for Poetry Brothel Denver: LORE / The Poetry Society of New York / Prismajic / Lakewood, CO / May 1, 2025
Featured reader for booklaunch of St. Dymphna's Playbook by Hillary Leftwich / Counterpath / Denver, CO / April 30, 2025
Featured reader for book launch of St. Dymphna's Playbook by Hillary Leftwich / Mutiny Information Café / Englewood, CO / April 27, 2025
Featured poet for Off The Cuff event / Meadowlark / Denver, CO / April 24, 2025
Featured poet for Dystopian Times Vol. 3 release event / Zero Hour Cafe / Denver, CO / March 29, 2025
Featured poet / Virtual Reading with ALOCASIA / Online / March 24, 2025
Featured poet for Oral Fixation Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / March 16, 2025
Featured poet for Jazzetry / Trident Café / Boulder, CO / March 8, 2025
Featured poet for Oral Fixation Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / February 23, 2025
Featured poet for Five Points Jazz Fest Black History Month Poetry Showcase / Tea Lee’s Teahouse and Bookstore / Denver, CO / February 15, 2025
Workshop Facilitator: “Black Latine Poetics” / Mission Viejo Library / Aurora Public Library / Aurora, CO / February 6, 2025
Featured poet for 2nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration / Mi Chantli / Boulder, CO / January 26, 2025
2024
Workshop Facilitator: “Body Poetics” / Queer Creatives Fest / Lighthouse Writers Workshop / Denver, CO / October 27, 2024
Guest Docent, Host, & Performer / UNTITLED / Denver Art Museum / Denver, CO / October 25, 2024
Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / October 4, 2024
Book Release event for Oliver Baez Bendorf’s CONSIDER THE ROOSTER feature performer / Matter Bookstore / Denver, CO / September 30, 2024
Featured Panelist / Writing in Color Fest Panel on Publishing / Lighthouse Writers Workshop / Denver, CO / September 29, 2024
Workshop Facilitator: “Word/Play” / Creative Colorado Writer’s Retreat / Beyond The Veil Press and Twenty Bellows / Mint&Serif / Lakewood, CO / September 29, 2024
Featured poet / Jaipur Literary Festival Colorado / Boulder, CO / September 14, 2024
Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / September 6, 2024
Chapbook Release event for Meg Kim’s INVISIBLE CARTOGRAPHIES feature performer / New Delta Review / Online / September 5, 2024
Chapbook Release event for Alejandro Lucero’s SAPELLO SON feature performer / Mission Viejo Library / Aurora, CO / August 9, 2024
Featured Performer / Listen To Your Skin / Denver, CO (virtual) / June 30, 2024
Guest Host & Performer / “New Suns” Shades of Honey Showcase / Creative Strategies for Change / Denver, CO / June 29, 2024
Featured Performer / Slam Nuba / Redline Contemporary Art Center / Denver, CO / June 28, 2024
Featured Performer / Gender Euphoria burlesque variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / June 21, 2024
Featured Performer / Gaza Sunbirds Benefit Show / Townhall Collaborative / Denver, CO / June 15, 2024
Featured Performer / No Pride Without Palestine / Collaboration with So To Speak, The Offing, and Phoebe Journal / Virtual / June 14, 2024
Featured Performer / Punketry 7th Anniversary / Mutiny Information Café / Denver, CO / June 12, 2024
Workshop Facilitator / Trans & Nonbinary Writers Retreat / Sundress Academy for the Arts / Knoxville, TN (Virtual) / June 7-8, 2024
CantoMundo retreat participant / Arizona State University / Tempe, AZ / May 30-June 2, 2024
Featured Performer / Counterpath / Denver, CO / April 20, 2024
Featured Performer / Shades of Honey show / Birdseed Collective / Denver, CO / March 30, 2024
Featured Performer / Stained Glass variety show / XBAR / Denver, CO / March 27, 2024
Workshop Facilitator / Arapahoe Community College’s Writers Studio / Denver, CO / March 23, 2024
Featured Performer / Poets for Palestine / Aurora, CO / February 17, 2024
Featured Performer / Black History Tomorrow, an event at Denver Art Museum / Denver, CO / February 13, 2024
Featured Performer / Queer Erotic Poetics, an event at The Junkyard Social Club / Boulder, CO / February 10, 2024
Featured poet for Dystopian Times release event / Denver, CO / January 13, 2024
Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / January 5, 2024
2023
Guest Poet class visit for Poetics Seminar / University of Colorado, Denver / Denver, CO / November 29, 2023
Faculty for Queer Creatives poetry retreat (Workshop Facilitator, Panelist, and Featured Reader) / Lighthouse Writers Workshop / Denver, CO / in-person / October 27-29, 2023
Artist Residency / The Chrysalis Institute & The Omega Institute / October 9-13, 2023
Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / October 6, 2023
Featured poet for local author spotlight event / Counterpath / Denver, CO / September 30, 2023
Featured poetry workshop facilitator for Drop In Writing Sessions / Denver Art Museum & Lighthouse Writers Workshop / Denver, CO / virtual / September 26, 2023
Guest Judge & Performer for 5th Annual Slamming Bricks Poetry Slam / Grand Junction, CO / September 9, 2023
Guest host for Writing-In-Color retreat closing ceremony event / Lighthouse Writers Workshop / Denver, CO / August 20, 2023
Featured poet for F-Bomb event / Mercury Café / Denver, CO / August 15, 2023
Featured poet for Queer Poetry Jam event / Bus Stop Gallery / Boulder, CO / July 23, 2023
Featured poet for Black and Indigenous Ecologies Poetry Reading event / Counterpath / Denver, CO / July 7, 2023
Featured poetry workshop facilitator for Drop In Writing Sessions / Denver Art Museum & Lighthouse Writers Workshop / Denver, CO / virtual / June 27, 2023
MISEDUCATION release event / Counterpath / Denver, CO / June 17, 2023
Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / June 16, 2023
Artist Summer Residency / The Sundress Academy for the Arts / Knoxville, TN / May 22 - June 4, 2023
Featured poet for And Now Featuring… show / Trident Café / Boulder, CO / May 18, 2023
MISEDUCATION virtual release event & conversation with Dorothy Chan / hosted by New Delta Review / virtual / May 13, 2023
Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / May 5, 2023
Featured poet for Foglifter Journal Issue 8.1 Release / San Francisco, CA (virtual) / April 21, 2023
Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / April 4, 2023
Featured poet for Queer Lit and Performance Festival / University of Colorado Boulder and Counterpath / Boulder, CO and Denver, CO / March 17 & 18, 2023
Featured poet for offsite events / Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference / Seattle, WA / March 8-11, 2023
Wednesday evening 6-9PM at The Blarney Stone with New Delta Review celebrating forthcoming NDR chapbook MISEDUCATION
Friday evening 5-7PM at Doghouse Leathers celebrating the Listen to Your Skin Anthology
Friday evening 7-9PM at Havana Social Club with Nightboat Books, The Elephants, and FC2 celebrating the Infinite Constellations Anthology
Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / March 2023
Loving at Intersections: A Confessional featured poet / Union Hall / Denver, CO / February 2023
Shades of Honey: Homecoming featured reader / Town Hall Collaborative / Denver, CO / January 2023
2022
Transgender Day of Remembrance event featured poet / Transgender Center of the Rockies / Space Annex Denver / Denver, CO / November 2022
Featured poet for Off the Clock Vaudeville Variety show / The Clocktower Cabaret / Denver, CO / November 2022
Featured poet for CO-CEAL event / Regis University / Denver, CO / November 2022
Southmoor Elementary 4th Grade Poetry Night Guest Poet / Southmoor Elementary / Denver, CO / October 2022
Flowetry poetry feature / Redline Contemporary Art Gallery / Denver, CO / October 2022
Book Release event for Crisosto Apache’s GHOSTWORD feature performer / Counterpath / Denver, CO / October 2022
Keeping Colorado Springs Queer poetry feature / ICONS / Colorado Springs, CO / October 2022
National Poetry Day featured poet / Community College of Aurora / Aurora, CO / October 2022
Guest Facilitator for 2022 National Latinx Writers Gathering / Albuquerque, NM (virtual) / October 2022
BODYELECTRONIC official in-person release event (featuring Meca’Ayo Cole, Liza Sparks, and DJ Alisha B) / Counterpath Press / Denver, CO / September 2022
3rd Annual Latine Heritage Month Story Hour / poetry feature for Lil Miss Story Hour / Fiestas Patrias / Colorado Springs, CO / September 2022
4th Annual Slamming Bricks Poetry Slam (1st place in the slam!) / Grand Junction, CO / September 10, 2022
Shades of Honey poetry reader / City Park / Denver, CO / August 2022
Sacred Voices poetry feature / BookBar / Denver, CO / August 2022
48 hours of Engaged Art: Roots Radical performance feature / Slam Nuba: The Guillotine Hip-Hop show / Redline Contemporary Art Center / Denver, CO / August 2022
[margins] literary conference (performance with Slam Nuba and panelist with Shades of Honey) / Denver, CO / August 2022
ArtPark Studios event featured poet / Denver, CO / July 2022
Nomadic Press’s GET LIT reading series / virtual (Oakland, CA) / July 19 2022
BODYELECTRONIC conversation series / virtual event / July 17 2022
Dwell: A Poetry Benefit feature performer / The Village Institute / Denver, CO / June 2022
OOZE featured poet / Ashokra Farm / Albuquerque, NM / June 2022
Punketry 5th Anniversary featured poet / Mutiny Information Café / Denver, CO / June 2022
Micro-Poetry Event with The Lickety~Split and The Offing feature performer / Online (streamed on instagram) / June 2022
Book Release event for Jessica Lawson’s GASH ATLAS feature performer / Counterpath / Denver, CO / June 2022
ArtPark Studios event featured poet / Denver, CO / May 2022
Counterpath Opening Event feature performer / Denver, CO / May 2022
Listen to Your Skin Jazzetry feature performer / Denver, CO / April 2022
Tiny Resident poetry workshop / virtual / April 2022
Shades of Honey poetry workshop / Denver, CO / April 2022
ArtPark Studios event featured poet / Denver, CO / March 2022
Mutiny Information Café Open Mic featured poet / Denver, CO / March 2022
Poetry for Personal Power brunch featured poet / Denver, CO / February 2022
Creative Strategies for Change featured performer / Denver, CO / February 2022
Diversity Day featured performer with Slam Nuba / St. Mary’s Academy / Denver, CO / February 2022
2021
Nomadic Press‘s GET LIT reading series / virtual (Oakland, CA) / November 2021
Night at the Museum poetry workshop facilitator with Sacred Voices / Museum of Nature and Science / Denver, CO / November 2021
National Day of Writing featured poet / Community College of Aurora / Aurora, CO / October 2021
Jazzetry– live jazz and poetry / Mutiny Information Café / Denver, CO / October 2021
Book release event for Igbà Ayé: Tropical Winter by Femi Nassi / Whittier Café / Denver, CO / October 2021
Shades of Honey / Four Winds American Indian Council / Denver, CO / October 2021
Art Park grand opening event with Slam Nuba / RiNo Art Park / Denver, CO / September 2021
3rd Annual Slamming Bricks Poetry Slam (2nd place in the slam!) / Grand Junction, CO / September 2021
48 Hours of Socially Engaged Art & Conversation Summit: Afrofuturism / Redline Art Gallery / Denver, CO / August 2021
CantoMundo retreat public reading / University of Arizona Poetry Center / Tucson, AZ (virtual) / June 2021
Palestine Solidarity Benefit poetry feature / Whittier Café / Denver, CO / June 2021
Lit Fest Fellows Reading poetry feature / Lighthouse Writers Workshop / Denver, CO (Virtual) / June 2021
2020
Keeping Colorado Springs Queer open mic featured poet / Colorado Springs, CO (Virtual) / December 2020
The Crossroads of Latinx featured panelist / CantoMundo hosted panel / Dodge Poetry Festival (Virtual)/ October 2020
“Immigration Is An LGBTQ Issue: Love Beyond Borders” poetry feature / Denver, CO / September 2020
Boulder BIPOC Creative Collective poetry feature / Boulder, CO / August 2020
“Poetry People” Collective LGBTQ poetry feature / Denver, CO (virtual) / July 2020
Subvert featured poet with artist chat and Q&A / Denver, CO (virtual) / June 2020
OutLoud! Queer Showcase featured poet / Blush & Blu / Denver, CO / March 2020
Mercury Café Sunday Slam featured poet / Mercury Café / Denver, CO / March 2020
Central Park 5 VIP Reception featured poet / Redline Gallery / Denver, CO / February 2020
Mutiny Poetry Series featured poet / Suspect Press & Meow Wolf / Mutiny Information Café / Denver, CO / February 2020
Sacred Voices featured poet / Denver Open Media / Denver, CO / January 2020
Punketry featured poet / Mutiny Information Café / Denver, CO / January 2020
“Little Song: Sonnet/Lyric” / Guest poetry workshop facilitator for Writer’s Block / Boulder, CO / January 2020
PBS Head Room Sessions featured poet / Denver, CO / January 2020
2019
Stain’d Magazine Open Mic featured poet / Whittier Café / Denver, CO / December 2019
Their Haus V1: EP Release featured poet / LFX Filmworks / Denver, CO / October 2019
Busboys and Poets Denver Pop-Up featured poet / Denver, CO / September 2019
Stain’d Magazine Arts Housefest showcase featured poet / Denver, CO / September 2019
Human Cluster Project ArtHouse Showcase featured poet / Denver, CO / July 2019
Summer Writing Program Week 2 scholarship featured poet / Naropa University / Boulder, CO / June 2019