Current and Upcoming Events
March 30, 2023: Reading as part of the Center for Poets and Writers at OSU‘s Live Lit night, Heirloom Rustic Ales, Tulsa.
Curator of the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Series in November 2023.
Kranzburg Visiting Poet at the University of Missouri-St. Louis for spring semester, 2023.
Recent Past Events
March 17, 2023
Reading at High Low, St. Louis, MO.
November 10, 2022
Reading at New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville, VA.
July 30, 2022
Reading at Giovanni’s Room in Philadelphia, PA.
Fall 2021
Wisconsin’s Own Library Poet in Residence at Ripon College in Ripon, WI.
April 22, 2021
Reading as part of a National Poetry Month celebration sponsored by the Eastern Shore Writers Association.
January 22 to February 11, 2020
In residence as the Eli Cantor Fellow in Poetry at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY.
May 4, 2021
Reading for Magic City Books in an event rescheduled from 2020. Watch the video here.
September 17 to October 11, 2019
Poet-in-residence at Gettysburg National Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, sponsored by the National Parks Arts Foundation and the Poetry Foundation.
September 6, 2019
PROVISO: America, Family Class, and Queer Immigration, a collaborative text/image project between Steve and visual artist Kristen Tomecek sponsored by the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, was on display at the Cameron Project Space in Tulsa. See a recap here. The exhibition was turned into a chapbook of text and images by Paper Machine Press in 2022.
June 21 to October 13, 2019
Poetic sequence “Geronimo Dolls” was on exhibit at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa in conjunction with the museum’s collection of photographs of Geronimo.
June 2019
Artist in residence at Crosstown Arts in Memphis.
April 20, 2019
Discussed new poems written using found text from his research in the Smithsonian’s Matthew Shepard archive at the New Orleans Poetry Festival.
February 23, 2019
Reading at Normal’s Books in Baltimore, Maryland as part of the Silence = Death: An Afternoon of Queer Voices special event.
February 6, 2019
Reading at Malvern Books in Austin, Texas. Watch the video here.
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