I am still setting up readings for Crushed & Crowned. If you would like me to come to your classroom, reading series, book club, or other event, please email me at JosephRoss20017@gmail.com.
January 17, 2024 – 7:00pm – The Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
Thanks to poet and friend, Doritt Carroll, I am reading for the first time at the Arts Cub of Washington. I am especially fired up about this reading because I’ll be joined by my friend, poet, Steven Leyva. Steven is a talented poet and a professor at the University of Baltimore. Read about Steven and his work HERE.
January 20, 2024 – 1:30pm ET – Poet’s Day In
I am delighted to join this wonderful group of California poets to read from Crushed & Crowned. The reading takes place at 1:30pm Eastern US Time and 10:30am Pacific US Time. Use the link HERE. I hope you can join us! I will read for 15 minutes and then there will be an open mic. I read for this group when Raising King came out and there are wonderful poets here.
January 20, 2024 – 7:00pm ET – The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD
I’ll be reading with two poets, whose work I admire a lot, Jubi Arriola-Headly and Kyle Dargan. The Writer’s Center in Bethesda is a wonderful literary organization in the DC-area with classes, readings, and more. I hope you can join us!
January 27, 2024 – 4:00pm – American Poetry Museum, 716 Monroe Street, NE, Unit 25, Washington, D.C.
The Washington, D.C. launch for Crushed & Crowned will be hosted by the wonderful folks at the American Poetry Museum. I am so happy to launch the book in this wonderful community space curated by Sami Miranda and friends. I am especially thrilled to read with my wonderful friend, gifted poet, Melanie Henderson. I hope you will join us!
February 13, 2024 – 7:00pm – Columbia Art Center – 6100 Foreland Garth, Columbia, MD 21045
I am happy to read again in the Wilde Reading Series, sponsored by the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society. I will be reading with poet, Michael Salcman, an esteemed Maryland poet.
April 1, 2024 – 6:00pm – Asbury Methodist Village – 201 Russell Ave, Gaithersburg, MD 20877I’m glad to be reading with poet and friend, Kathleen O’Toole at the Keese School, a continuing education program at Asbury Methodist Village. It will be an interview style reading. Kathleen and I will reflect on poetry as public memory, both reading poems that touch on that theme. I will largely be reading from Raising King.
April 4, 2024 – 7:00pm – Gaithersburg Book Festival 15th Anniversary Reading – DiVerse Poetry Series, Casey Community Center, 810 S. Frederick Avenue, Gaithersburg, Maryland
I am honored to be invited to participate in this reading marking the 15th anniversary of the Gaithersburg Book Festival. I will be reading with others and I’ll post those names here as soon as I know more details. Hope to see you!
April 20, 2024 – 3:00pm Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD
I have read at the Pratt Library several times and I am delighted to return for a reading in National Poetry Month. I’ll be reading with poet, Ed Gillespie and a TBD poet. I hope my Baltimore friends will come through!
April 21, 2024 – 11:00am – 4:00pm – Kensington Day of the Book Festival – Howard Avenue, Kensington, MD
I’m thrilled to read at this year’s Kensington Day of the Book Festival. It takes place, rain or shine, on three blocks of Howard Avenue in historic Kensington, Maryland, just a few minutes outside of Washington, D.C. Check out the other authors and events HERE.
April 23, 2024 – 7:00pm- Kramerbooks – 1517 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
I’m thrilled to read in the Spring Poetry Reading at this iconic independent bookstore in Washington, D.C. I’ll be reading with another poet. I’ll had that name when I have it.
May 18, 2024 – Time TBD – Bohrer Park, 506 S. Frederick Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD
I am honored that Crushed & Crowned was chosen to be featured in the 15th Annual Gaithersburg Book Festival. I will read on a panel with another poet. I’ll post more details here when they arrive.
June 11, 2024 – Time TBD – Bryant Park Reading Room – 11 West 42nd Street. New York, NY I am thrilled to read in the storied Bryant Park Reading Room this summer. Bryant Park is located between 40th and 42nd Streets and Fifth and Sixth Avenues behind the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman building. I’m grateful to Jason Schneiderman and Nathan McClain for all their work with this wonderful poetry series.
June 19, 2024 – 7:00pm – Moonstone Arts Center Poetry Reading – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom St, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Thanks to my friend, Sarah Browning, I’ll be reading in Philadelphia once again. Sean Hanrahan hosts the 3rd Wednesday reading for the Moonstone Arts Center at Fergie’s Pub. I hope my Philly friends will join us!
September 6, 2024 – 7:00pm – The Ragged Edge Coffeehouse – 110 Chambersburg Street, Gettysburg, PA
I am excited to return to The POETRY FIRST FRIDAYS Reading Series in Gettysburg, hosted by Marty Malone, Katy Giebenhain, and Alan Bogage. This wonderful series has built a terrific poetry community from all around Gettysburg, PA. I hope you can join us!
Recently Recorded Readings
Below is the link to Sojourn with Words, hosted by Joy Alford for Prince George’s County, Maryland, Arts Television. Thanks for Joy for a wonderful interview!
February, 2022 Gettysburg College, Martin Luther King Celebration
You can watch the 2022 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration sponsored by Gettysburg College, Harrisburg Area Community College and South Central Community Action Programs, SCCAP of Pennsylvania, HERE. Thanks to Nancy Whitman for inviting me to read from Raising King. The reading begins at the 25:50 mark. But there is great music all throughout. Don’t miss the Morgan State University Choir’s version of “Glory,” from the movie “Selma,” at the very end of the video.
May 15, 2021 The Gaithersburg Book Festival
I participated in an awesome discussion on poetry and social justice with Ethelbert Miller, Kim Roberts, and Tara Campbell. Watch the program here!
January 15, 2021 Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Watch the Martin Luther King Day “Not Just Another Day Off” Reading here.
November 18, 2020 Montgomery College, Takoma Park, Maryland
It was my honor to deliver the 2020 Robert l. Giron Global Humanities Lecture at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Maryland. You can read the address here.
September 14, 2020, “Why We Can’t Wait” 2020 Lucille Clifton Reading
2020 Lucille Clifton Reading from Raising King – Howard Country Poetry & Literature Society.
March 29, 2017 Enoch Pratt Free library, Baltimore, Maryland
Poetry & Conversation Reading with Brian Gilmore. This was a wonderful reading with poet and friend, Brian Gilmore. I read from ACHE in this recording and he reads from his awesome collection of poems, We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters.
Joseph Ross 