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Rachel is the recipient of the Language of the Land Fellowship at Rockvale Writers' Colony in College Grove, TN, summer 2023.
Wild & Precious Life Series: "An evening celebrating Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology." Virtual at this link April 12, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. EST. Wolverhampton University will host an international reading for the poetry anthology, Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Anthology at 2pm on April 5th (link forthcoming). Along with other contributors, Rachel will read her work. Rachel will visit Monmouth University to speak with graduate students about editing, writing, and publishing, March 22, 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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August 2022 Rachel was a writer-in-residence at the Writers' Colony in Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, AR.
April 30, 2022, Iowa Poetry Association's Spring Workshop
April 9, 2022 Poetry reading at the Waterloo Public Library for National Poetry Month
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)
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, 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 30, 2022, Iowa Poetry Association's Spring Workshop
April 9, 2022 Poetry reading at the Waterloo Public Library for National Poetry Month
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)
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, 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)