Upcoming and Previous Readings

Upcoming readings


2020
March 25, 2020
1:00pm Union Underground / Washburn University / A Kellogg Press Poetry Reading


Previous readings, book signings, visits:

December 2013
December 3rd: Open-mic at Skivies, 7pm
December 4th: Washburn Bookstore Open House, 1-2:30pm
December 8th: Topeka SC Public Library Local Author Fair, 3-5pm

February 2014
February 11, 2014: opening for Lauren Zuniga, Washburn University, Union, 7pm
February 27, 2014: William Stafford Celebration, Caffe Ladro, Seattle, AWP 2014, 6-8pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/494182720637610/

March 2014
March 10, 2014: ESU Reading with Kevin Rabas and Amy Sage Webb, 7pm

April 2014
April 4th, First Friday: Top City Poetry Crawl, 5:30-8pm
April 10th, Midland Care Author Event, McFarland's Restaurant, 3-5pm
April 26th, Lawrence Poetry Fair, Lawrence Arts Center, Noon-4pm
https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/227078240824905

June 2014
June 6th, First Friday: The Eclective (NOTO), 5:30-8pm
June 21st at Aimee's, Lawrence, 5:30p
https://www.facebook.com/events/1428575160756747/

 July 2014
Tuesday,  July 15th in Fort Collins: Old Firehouse Books, with Sasha Steensen and Aby Kaupang, 7pm
 https://www.facebook.com/events/565364153584956/

Thursday, July 17th in Boulder: Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 7pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/257370547799787/

 September 2014
Sept 3rd: Midland Hospice Poetry Workshop, 7pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/707466155996846/

Sept 10th: Words Save Lives Poetry Slam, Oread Hotel, Fifth Floor, Lawrence Kansas, 7pm - 10pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/315837368584890/

Sept 19th: The Writers Place, KC, with Phong Nguyen and Leah Sewell, 7pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/1515371762008403/


Sept 25th: Big Tent Reading with Rachel Cross, The Raven Bookstore, Lawrence, 7pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/331325497043512/

Sept 28th: Poetry on the Porch, William Allen White State Historical Site, 927 Exchange, Emporia, KS, 2pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/266857940173817/

September 2015

September 4, 2015: Opening of Visuals of Poetry 2015, Artist and Poet Collaborative Showing, Two Wolves Studio, NOTO, 837 1/2 N Kansas Ave, Topeka, KS
https://www.facebook.com/events/1623161484563412/

September 10: 2015 Words Save Lives, Lawrence Crates Makerspace, 731 New Jersey St, Lawrence, KS
7pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/501661989996172/

September 25, 2015: I-70 Review Release Party; The Writers Place
7pm
http://www.writersplace.org/calendar/2015/9/25/i-70-review-release-party-and-reading

September 27: 2015 Topeka Pride Parade and Outdoor Fair, 2pm-5pm, look for our table! I will be sitting with Elaine M. Rodriguez, the artist for My Secret Wars of 1984.

October 2015

October 6, 2015: Skivies Open-Mic Poetry Night; Topeka, KS
7pm

December 2015

December 2, 2015: Washburn Bookstore Holiday Open House, Washburn University Memorial Union
1:00-2:30pm


January 2016

A NEKS BlazeVOX Kansas Reading Tour
January 29, 2016: The Raven, Lawrence, KS
7pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/911121708955561/

January 30, 2016: A Common Sense Reading
7pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/874564792612834/


March 2016
Friday, March 25
Heating Up: Artists Respond to Climate Change
Percolator Lawrence
at 5 PM - 10 PM
reading at 8pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/234496763552499/
http://cjonline.com/life/connected/2016-03-19/artists-seek-spark-dialogue-exhibit-exploring-climate-change
https://lawrenceecologyteams.wordpress.com/heating-up-artists-respond-to-climate-change/

April 2016
Wednesday, April 27 at 4 p.m. in Carole Chapel
Washburn Creative Writing Faculty: Eric McHenry, Louise Krug, and Dennis Etzel Jr.

May 2016
Tuesday, May 3
Thomas Zvi Wilson Reading Series
6 pm - 8pm at Johnson County Central Library  
Carmack Room
9875 W 87th St, Overland Park, KS 66212
Dennis Etzel Jr and Roderick Townley

Contact: Helen Hokanson at 913-826-4414.
http://jocolibrary.org/locations/oakpark
 Co-sponsors: The Writers Place and the Johnson County Central Library
Free refreshments!

June 2016

June 22, 2016 at The Raven Bookstore, Lawrence, Kansas
Free State Poetry Reading
In conjunction with the Free State Festival, the FREE STATE POETRY READING is a free event which features Joseph Harrington, Annette Billings, Leah Sewell, Ben Cartwright, Kevin Rabas, Dennis Etzel Jr, and more. A book signing will follow the event. Refreshments will be served. Everyone is invited! Please come!

7pm-9pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/1734043156810829/

August 2016

Friday, August 12, 2016: Come to Louise Krug's Release Party for Tilted! The Raven, Lawrence, 7pm

Saturday, August 20: 
Guest Speaker for TSCPL, 9am - noon
Guest Speaker for Kansas Authors Club District 1pm

Saturday, August 27 : Kansas Writers Inc TSCPL 1-2pm


September 2016

September 10: Words Save Lives, Lawrence, Kansas

September 15: 3pm, Midland Cares: Stories of Hope & Healing Midland Care on 6th Av / 1112 SW 6th 'Stories' is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

October 2016

October 1
Kansas Authors Club Convention

October 2016

October 9: The Burger Stand, Topeka, KS
Featured Writer for W.A.R. Slam Poetry
$5 cover charge, doors open at 7pm, begins at 8pm

October 12: First Congregational Church, Topeka, KS
7pm

October 17: Crescent Moon Open-Mic Poetry Night
Lincoln, NE
I am excited to try this open-mic I've heard so much about!
7pm
Open Mic at the Moon, at Crescent Moon Coffee (140 N 8th St #10 Lower Level, Lincoln)



October 18: Omaha, NE reading
Imaginary Gardens Reading at Mister Toad
https://www.facebook.com/events/1779793548963545/


October 21 Writers Place Reading Series
7pm


November 10-13, 2016
MMLA in St Louis

Saturday, November 12, 8:30 to 9:45 am (Panel 1)

Tamara Taylor, “A Poet Reading a Novelist: Translating the Spaces Between”

JoAnna Novak, “”Launching Back”

Dennis Etzel Jr., “My Secret Wars of 1984: A Hybrid Mashup”

Kathleen Miller, “Weapons of Mass Construction”


Saturday, November 12, 10:00 to 11:15 am (Panel 2)

Valeria Prince, “Waterbearer”

Dennis Etzel Jr., “Teaching Documentary Poetics to Students Without Creative Writing [and Reading] Experience: A Pedagogical Journey”

Amy L. Eggert, “Stress Writing and Streams of Consciousness”

February 2017

Sa 18   Poetry Reading: Poetic Duet with Dennis and Annette
            7pm NOTO Arts Center, 935 N Kansas Ave, Topeka, KS 66608

March 2017

R 16    Ben Cartwright’s Poetry Release Reading: After Our Departure
            reading with Kevin Rabas and Dennis Etzel, Jr.
               7pm The Raven Bookstore, 6 E 7th St, Lawrence, KS 66044
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July 17, 2017: Joplin Avenue Coffee Company
506 S Joplin Ave, Joplin, Missouri 64801; 6-8pm
Reading and Open-Mic
with Laura Lee Washburn and Melissa Fite Johnson
Downtown Poetry in Joplin, Missouri
https://www.facebook.com/events/815734311923631/permalink/826012050895857/
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August 4: Studio 831, NOTO, 7pm
www.facebook.com/events/1515086038530944/

August 24: Ellen Plumb's City Bookstore, Emporia, with Kevin Rabas, 7pm
www.facebook.com/events/1895598004053006/

September 9: Kansas Book Fesitval, 10-10-50am, Senate Chamber, Kansas Capitol Building, signing follows

September 10: Words Save Lives, 6-10pm, Big Six room of The Eldridge Hotel, 701 Mass., Lawrence, KS
https://www.facebook.com/events/1932463277041485/

September 14: The Raven, Downtown Lawrence, with Denise Low-Weso, 7pm

December 1: TBA, NOTO, 7pm



Monday, September 17, 2018
7pm, Open Mic at the Moon, at Crescent Moon Coffee (140 N 8th St #10 Lower Level, Lincoln). For more information, contact crescentmoon@inebraska.com and check www.crescentmooncoffee.com/. (every Monday)

Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Imaginary Gardens Reading Series
Omaha, NE
7pm at Mister Toad
1002 Howard St
https://www.facebook.com/imaginarygardens/ 

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Week Without Violence Poetry Reading

1:30 p.m.

Union Underground on Washburn's campus

Friday, October 26, 2018

TSCPL Poetry Reading Series

Annette Billings, Dennis Etzel, Jr.

November 1, 2018

Reading of Ekphrastic Poems from Cally Krallman's paintings

Saturday, November 17, 2018

MMLA Conference

11:30 am, 1:00 pm, and 4:00pm in the Burgundy Room, Marriott Downtown

March 1, 2019
Two Ponders: a collaboration
with Barbara Waterman-Peters
5:30 - 8:00 pm
NOTO Arts Center
935 N Kansas Ave

April 4, 2019
Ichabods Speak Out Open-Mic
1:30 - 3:00 pm
Union Underground

September 14, 2019
Kansas Book Festival
TBA