Rhythm Running River on KZYX. Sunday, November 19 2023. Melissa Eleftherion (Ukiah)_Blue Sky as Wildfire (2023) 00:58
Petaluma Poetry Walk. Featured reading. September 2023.
Poetry on the River. Featured reading. August 2023.
West Trestle Review. Issue Launch. May 2023.
SoFloPoJo. Issue Launch. May 2023.
KRCB Radio (Sonoma County’s NPR). Featured reading & interview. April 2023.
Mendocino College. Featured reading. April 2023.
White Stag Reading for Launch of #Grounding Earth Anthology. October 2022.
Third Thursday Poet Feature with Blake More. July 2022.
Mendocino County Poet Laureate reading. Featured reading of County PLs with Point Area Point Laureate Blake More announcing Mendocino County’s new Youth Poet Laureate, Sidney Regelbrugge. March 2022.
MEDIUM art gallery. Ukiah, CA. Featured reading, hosted by Deep Valley Arts Collective. 2022.
Mendocino Book Company. Ukiah, CA. Featured reading & conversation with Teresa Miller, hosted by Toni Wheeler. 2022.
San Francisco Public Library. SF, CA. Group reading honoring Diane di Prima, curated by Kim Shuck. December 2021.
Halloween Poetry Reading. Group reading organized by Hilary Rogers King & Los Altos Literary Association. 2021.
Grace Hudson Museum. Ukiah, CA. Annual Gala event. September 2021.
WNP Reading Series. Featured reading, hosted by Kai Coggin. September 2021.
Mercy Street Reading Series. Featured reading curated by Ruben Quesada. August 2021
Bird & Beckett Featured Reading. Curated by Kim Shuck, outgoing SF Poet Laureate. June 2021.
Sound Garden Opening on Ukiah Rail Trail. May 2021.
Ukiah City Council Meeting. Ukiah Poet Laureate appointment. Acceptance of honor & reading of Hierophant Reversed / Sequoia Sempervirens. April 2021.
Dispatches from Quarantine reading at the San Francisco Public Library. Group reading curated by Alexandra Kostoulas. February 2021.
One Hour/Five Poets. Group reading curated by Karen Poppy. February 2021.
Tell Tell Reading Series. Featured reading curated by Kallie Falandays. February 2021.
Eves at the Beat. Featured reading at the Beat Museum, San Francisco CA, Feb. 2021. Curated by Georgina Marie Guardado, Lake County Poet Laureate 2020-2021
WNP Virtual Open Mic, Poetry Through the Pandemic, curated by Kai Coggin, January 2021: Hydra in her own Dust
Rhythm Running River, Mendocino Spring Poetry Reading 2020: Melissa Eleftherion _Whiteness 00:35
Tiny Spoon Issue Release Party, June 2020. My short film, patriarchy tonic, begins at 3:15.
periodicities : virtual reading series : April 2020.
KZYX radio. The Uplift. April 17th, 2020. https://jukebox.kzyx.org/
AWP, San Antonio TX – March 2020 – Operating System reading at SALA Diaz
AWP, Portland CA – March 2019 – Oracle: Poetry & The Occult at The Rose City Book Pub
AWP, Portland CA – March 2019 – Menacing Hedge reading at The Bad Habit Room
Get Lit, Petaluma CA – July 2018 – Featured reading, curated by Kara Vernor
Writers Read, Ukiah CA – April 2018 – Featured reading, curated by Michael Riedell, Poet Laureate of Ukiah: Writers-Read-Ukiah-2018_0426-Melissa-Eleftherion-Carr
New Orleans Poetry Fest, Coven Press Reading, New Orleans LA – April 2018
Fort Bragg Branch Library, Fort Bragg, CA – January 2018 – Featured reading, series curated by Daniel Hess
Mendocino Book Company, Ukiah CA – February 2018 – Featured reading, series curated by Toni Wheeler
Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA – November 16, 2017 – Featured reading, series curated by Sarah Elena Palmer
At the Inkwell, Alley Cat Books, San Francisco, CA – November 17, 2017 – Featured reading, series curated by Alexandra Kostoulas
Amy’s Kitchen Organics, San Francisco, CA – November 18, 2017 – Featured reading, series curated by Amy Berkowitz
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA – October 2017 – Featured reading & student discussion of field guide to autobiography & publishing
Backyards: Poets for Local Change, Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Alameda, CA – September 2017 – Featured reading curated by Sharon Coleman and Jeanne Lupton
Sanctuary Reading Series, Arcata, CA – July 2017 – Writing Workshop & Featured Reading, series curated by Katy Gurin.
Mendocino Coast Writer’s Conference, Mendocino, CA – August 2017 – Panel Presentation & Faculty Reading
Nomadic Press, The Uptown, Oakland, CA – May 2017 – Featured reading, series curated by MK Chavez
LOBA Poetry Series, Ukiah Library, Ukiah CA – June 2017 – Book Launch for field guide to autobiography
Postcard Poets. E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore, Oakland CA – March 2017 – Postcard Poets group reading.
Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, SF CA – April 2017 – Group reading celebrating the Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange
At the Inkwell, Alley Cat Books, San Francisco, CA – November 2015 – Featured reading, series curated by Alexandra Kostoulas.
LIMINAL: A Feminist Writing Space, Oakland, CA – June 2015 – Featured reading, series curated by Gina Goldblatt.
Poetry at Florey’s, Pacifica, CA – July 2014 – Featured reading with Caroline Goodwin (Poet Laureate of San Mateo County).
Poet as Radio, San Francisco, CA – June 2014 – Appearance on KUSF in Exile’s weekly radio program: Poet as Radio. Reading and discussion of my writing and projects.
Dusie Kollektiv Reading, Seattle, WA – February 2014 – Marathon-style tag-team reading and chapbook swap with Dusie Kollektiv authors.
AWP Ladies Night Reading, Seattle, WA – February 2014 – A night of women and writing at AWP. Participated as a dancing girl press author. Reading included Sundress, dancing girl, Hyacinth Girl, and Noctuary presses.
Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, CA – 2013 – Endless Summer: a twelve-hour marathon reading and fundraiser for SPT
Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, CA – 2012 – Endless Summer: a twelve-hour marathon reading and fundraiser for SPT
Lit Crawl, San Francisco CA – 2011 – Launch for Conversations at a Wartime Café anthology
DNA Lounge, San Francisco, CA – 2011 – Release party and marathon reading for Conversations at a Wartime Café
There reading series, Oakland, CA – 2010 – Group reading in support of There journal
Canessa Park Gallery, San Francisco, CA- 2009 – Canessa Park reading series curated by Erica Lewis
Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco, CA – 2006 – Group reading in support of Defenestration Magazine
Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, CA – 2005 – Launch for Defenestration Magazine
Bird and Beckett, San Francisco, CA – 2005 – Friends and Students of Diane di Prima Poetry Series
CCSF, Poetry for the People, San Francisco, CA – 2005 – Reading and performance for Leslie Simon’s class on domestic violence
All Poets Welcome, San Francisco, CA – 2004 – Featured reading, series curated by Robin Demers.
Poetry Mission @ Dalva, San Francisco, CA – 2003 – Featured reading, series curated by Elle.
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