Current & Upcoming
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October 2026 at 7:30 Ager et Lux (lyrics by and arranged by Rachel Morgan, score by Rebecca Burkhardt) at Gallagher Bluedorn in Cedar Falls, IA. Celebrating 150 years of artistic excellence at UNI, this Sesquicentennial Arts Showcase unites Gallagher Bluedorn, the School of Music, and Strayer-Wood Theatre for one unforgettable performance. Live Streamed here.
Rachel's work is included in The Telepoem Booth, which is an installation traveling through Iowa, and also a national project that re-enchants decommissioned telephone booths to give back to communities in multi-sensory ways: visual, haptic and aural |
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March 2026 "Building Voices and Community: How to Establish a Youth Poet Laureate Program" at AWP (Baltimore, MD)
November 2025 "State of the Arts: Iowa's Artist Fellows" exhibit at Mainframe Studios with an opening reading on Friday, November 7th 5pm-8pm at Mainframe Studio (Des Moines, IA)
November 20, 2025 8pm Final Thursday Reading Series with Adrianne Finlay and Semisweet Soaps ❤️ (Cedar Falls, IA)
August 29, 2025 Porchlight's Rooftop Music & Reading Series (Iowa City, IA)
August 19, 2025, Iowa Author Seedbed Series at Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo, IA)
May 2-31 at Mainframe Studios, 2025 Iowa Artists Fellows Exhibition & Showcase with Ali Hval, Jillian Moore, Vi Khi Nao, and Jill Wells (Des Moines, IA)
April 30, 2025 Grey Matters: An Anthology of Contemporary Medical Poems (virtual reading)
March 29, 2025 "A Tribute to Brenda Hillman: Meditations on a Radical Poet & Advocate" with Rachel Richardson, Brian Teare, Suzanna Tamminen, Major Jackson (Los Angeles, CA)
November 21, 2024 Final Thursday Reading Series with contributors to Cities of the Plains Iowa Poets and Artists Anthology at the Hearst Center in Cedar Falls, IA
April 20, 2024 Reading release and signing of Cities of the Plains: Iowa Poets and Artists Anthology at Poetry Palooza (Des Moines, IA)
December 5, 2023 a conversation with Frank Horvat, Meredith Hall Alison Hawthorne Deming and Susan Truxell Saute about Fractures: a Song Cycle
October 24, 2023 Featured Poet at Black Dog Poetry Virtual Open Mic
September 21, 2023 Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology contributors reading at Spoken and Heard (virtual)
July 2023 Language of the Land Fellowship at Rockvale Writers' Colony
April 14, 2023 world premiere of Frank Horvat's cycle, Fractures at Humbercrest United Church (Toronto, Canada)
April 12, 2023 Wild & Precious Life Series: "An evening celebrating Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology" (virtual)
March 22-24, 2023 visit and reading at Monmouth University (West Long Branch, NJ)
August 2022 Rachel was a writer-in-residence at the Writers' Colony in Dairy Hollow (Eureka Springs, AR)
April 30, 2022 Iowa Poetry Association's Spring Workshop (virtual)
April 9, 2022 Poetry reading at the Waterloo Public Library for National Poetry Month (Waterloo, IA)
November 9, 2021 guest speaker at AgArts (virtual)
March 3-6, 2021 AWP Conference & Bookfair, "New Nature: Rewriting Place in the Anthropocene" (virtual)
November 3, 2020 The Examined Life Conference, (Virtual) "Writing to Save Lives and Other Acts of Healing" (Iowa City, IA)
April 29, 2020 Rocked by Waters Motherhood Anthology Reading at Unity Unitarian Church (St. Paul, MN & virtual)
February 27, 2020 Final Thursday, poetry reading, Hearst Center for the Arts (Cedar Falls, IA)
February 25, 2020 North American Review Writing Workshops: Writing with Mindfulness--Attention to Poetry, Hearst Center for the Arts (Cedar Falls, IA)
October 26, 2019 Iowa Poetry Association Fall Workshop (Des Moines, IA)
April 26-27, 2019 Waters Deep: A Great Lakes Poetry Reading at UntitledTown Book & Author Festival (Green Bay, WI)
April 19-21, 2019 North American Review Conference: 50 Years at UNI "North, South, East, West: Regionalism in American Poetry" with Kimberly Burwick and Kevin Goodan (Cedar Falls, IA)
March 27-30, 2019 AWP “Editing Patriarchy: Women Editors Respond to Historic & Restorative Publishing” (Portland, OR)
October 1-3, 2018 Visiting Writers Series: Women in Publishing Washington State University (Pullman, WA)
April 13, 2018, “Where Sky, Where Pilgrim” performed by UNI’s Concert Chorale and Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra at Gallagher Bluedorn (Cedar Falls, IA)
February 27, 2018, Archway Reading & Lecture Series at the University of Dubuque (Dubuque, IA)