2024

FALL TOUR 2024

All events are in local time. Please view the links for information and registration.

November 19 — VIRTUAL

Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm

w/ DeMar DeRozan

7pm CST, Family Action Network (FAN) — VIEW

November 25 — NEW ORLEANS, LA

There’s Always This Year

6pm, Baldwin & Co. Bookshop - VIEW


—PAST EVENTS—

September 5 — MADISON, WI

There’s Always This Year

6pm, A Room of One’s Own Bookstore + Goodman Community Center — VIEW


September 9 — MINNEAPOLIS, MN

There’s Always This Year

6:30pm, Birchbark Books + Central Public Library — VIEW


September 12 — HAMILTON, NY

Living Writers Series — Colgate University

4:30pm, Persson Auditorium — VIEW


September 17 — VIRTUAL

Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm

w/ DeMar DeRozan

7pm, Family Action Network (FAN) — VIEW


September 17 - 20 — NEW HAVEN, CT

Windham Campbell Prizes Festival

Multiple Events, Yale University — VIEW


September 26 — TORONTO, ON

There’s Always This Year

7pm, Another Story Bookshop + Lula Lounge — VIEW (SOLD OUT)


September 27 — KITCHENER, ON

Black Talk w/ Antonio Michael Downing

7pm, TEXTILE at CIGI - VIEW (WAITLIST)


October 2 — MISSOULA, MT

There’s Always This Year

6:30pm, Fact & Fiction Books at the downtown Missoula Public Library - VIEW


October 3 — HAMILTON, MT

There’s Always This Year

7pm, Chapter One Bookstore w/ Chris La Tray - VIEW


October 4 — PORTLAND, OR

There’s Always This Year

7pm, Alano Club of Portland - VIEW (WALK-UP ONLY)


October 10 — VIRTUAL

There’s Always This Year

7pm, DC Writer’s Center — VIEW


October 15 — CHICAGO, IL

There’s Always This Year

7pm, Call & Response Books at the Logan Center - VIEW


October 17 — INDIANAPOLIS, IN

There’s Always This Year

7pm, Loudmouth Books - VIEW (WAITLIST)


October 23 —PORTLAND, ME

There’s Always This Year

SPACE Gallery - VIEW (SOLD OUT)


October 24 —AMHERST, MA

There’s Always This Year

6pm, University of Massachusetts - Amherst — VIEW


October 28 — TEMPE, AZ

There’s Always This Year

7pm, Changing Hands Bookstore - VIEW


October 30 — CHATTANOOGA, TN

There’s Always This Year

7pm, The Book & Cover - VIEW


November 1 — BLOOMINGTON, IN

Bloomington Book Festival w/ Ross Gay

7pm - VIEW

November 4 - 9 — BROOKLYN, NY

Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Next Wave Poetry Series & Residency - VIEW

November 12— DALLAS, TX

There’s Always This Year

7pm, Deep Vellum Books- VIEW

November 16 - 17 — AUSTIN, TX

Texas Book Festival w, Miwa Messer

2:45pm, State Theater - VIEW


SPRING 2024

February 19th — Springfield, OH

Wittenberg University Allen J. Koppenhaver Lecture

7pm, Bayley Auditorium, Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center


February 22nd— Memphis, TN

Rhodes College Jack D. Farris Visiting Writers Series

5:30pm, McCallum Ballroom, Bryan Campus Life Center


February 27th— St. Joseph, MN

College of Saint Benedict, Reading and Conversation

7pm, Gorecki Center, College of Saint Benedict 


March 21st— Chicago, IL

The Newberry Writers on Writing Series W/Eve Ewing

6pm, The Newberry Library — REGISTER


March 25th— Columbus, OH

There’s Always This Year Tour

7pm, King Arts Complex — REGISTER


March 26th— Brooklyn, NY

There’s Always This Year Tour

7:30pm, The Bell House — SOLD OUT

NEW SHOW: 9:30pm, The Bell House — REGISTER


March 27th— Philadelphia, PA

There’s Always This Year Tour, W/ Airea Dee Matthews

7:30pm, The Free Library Of Philadelphia — REGISTER


March 28th— Washington, DC

There’s Always This Year Tour, W/Jason Reynolds

7pm, Oxon Hill Branch Library — SOLD OUT


March 29th— Miami, FL

There’s Always This Year Tour, W/P. Scott Cunningham

7pm, Books & Books — REGISTER


April 1st— Cuyahoga, OH

There’s Always This Year Tour, W/Danny Caine

7pm, Cuyahoga County Public Library at The Sari Feldman Auditorium — REGISTER


April 2nd— Los Angeles, CA

There’s Always This Year Tour, W/Traci Thomas

7pm, Zipper Concert Hall — REGISTER


April 3rd— San Francisco, CA

There’s Always This Year Tour

City Arts & Lectures Series, W/Shereen Marisol Meraji

7:30pm, The Sydney Goldstein Theater — REGISTER


April 4th— Iowa City, IA

There’s Always This Year Tour, Mission Creek Festival


April 6th— Flint, MI

There’s Always This Year Tour

4pm, Comma Bookstore — SOLD OUT


April 8th— Detroit, MI

There’s Always This Year Tour

7pm, Source Booksellers — REGISTER


April 10th— Princeton, NJ

There’s Always This Year Tour

5pm, Princeton Public Lectures — REGISTER


April 11th— VIRTUAL

There’s Always This Year Tour

Conversation W/ Ross Gay

7pm, Family Action Network — REGISTER


April 13th— San Antonio, TX

There’s Always This Year Tour

San Antonio Book Festival, W/ Naomi Shihab Nye

3:15pm, Russell Hill Rogers Tent — VIEW


April 16th— Lawrence, KS

There’s Always This Year Tour

7pm, Liberty Hall — REGISTER


April 24th— Seattle, WA

There’s Always This Year Tour

7:30pm, Town Hall Seattle — REGISTER


April 25th— Portland, OR

There’s Always This Year Tour

Conversation W/ Kasey Anderson

7pm, Bodecker Foundation — SOLD OUT


April 26th— Corvalis, OR

There’s Always This Year Tour

PRAx + Livewire w/ Naomi Fitter & Jon the Robot, Brittany Davis, Y La Bamba

7pm, PRAx — REGISTER


April 29th— Athens, GA

There’s Always This Year Tour, W/ Xinyue Huang

7pm, 40 Watt Club — REGISTER


April 30th— Baltimore, MD

There’s Always This Year Tour

Greedy Reeds @ The Garage at R. House

Conversation w/ Teri Henderson

7pm, Greedy Reads — REGISTER


May 1st— Baltimore, MD

There’s Always This Year Tour

Hidden Palace Reading Series w/Madelaine Lucas, Joyelle McSweeney, Chin-Sun Lee

7pm, Faddensonnen — VIEW

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