Current & upcoming
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Featured Poet at Black Dog Poetry Open Mic (virtual, link forthcoming) at 8:00pm (EST), October 24, 2023
Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology contributors reading at Spoken & Heard (virtual link) at 7:00pm (EST), September 21, 2023 Rachel is the recipient of the Language of the Land Fellowship at Rockvale Writers' Colony in College Grove, TN, summer 2023. Rachel's poetry will be part of the activist project Fractures, a song cycle by composer Frank Horvat, sponsored by the Ontario Arts Council, Conseil des arts de l'Ontario, and soprano Meredith Hall. 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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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)
October 26-28, 2017, Meacham Writers’ Conference at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Chattanooga, TN)
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)
October 26-28, 2017, Meacham Writers’ Conference at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Chattanooga, TN)