Photo Cred: Ashley Jones 

Contact for Events: knmaples@ua.edu

Reader & Panelist, “Poetry and History,” Magic City Poetry Festival, April 2023

Keynote & Panelist, Gender, Bodies & Technology Conference : Post-Dobbs Precarity, Virginia Tech, March 2023

Reader, Past is Present: A Conversation in Poetry University Libraries and the Alabama Center for the Book, University of Alabama, September 2022

Reader, Poetry in the Parks, Magic City Poetry Festival, April 2022

Reader, Stockton University: A Reading from the Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood April 2022

Moderator, Finding Your Way Back Writing Seminar with Javacia Harris Bowser, Little Professor Bookstore, April 2022

The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood, Celebration and Reading, Philadelphia, PA March 2022

Reader, Druid City Brewery Poetry Reading, Tuscaloosa, Alabama March 2022

Guest Poet and Lecturer, Alabama State University, “Research and Writing Mend,” March 2022

Reader, University of Alabama, New Faculty Reading, November 2021

Guest Instructor, University of South Alabama, “Historical Persona Poetry” October 2021

Guest Instructor, Colby College, “What Yields and Documentary Poetry” October 2021

Guest Poet, Mothers of Gynecology Art Statue Unveiling, Montgomery, AL September 2021

Guest Instructor, The Business of Writing, See Jane Write, July 2021

Reader, My Story in Hers, The Brooklyn Rail Reading Series, May 2021

Featured Poet & Lecturer, Alabama Poetry Society October 21 & 22, 2019

Featured Poet & Lecturer, Poetry Society of South Carolina, September 12-13th, 2019

Fiction Workshop Instructor and Featured Reader, Spark Writing Festival, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham, August 5-9, 2019

Reading: Cave Canem’s New Works Reading Series (New York University) April 25, 2019

Reading: Obisidian Literary Journal, (AWP Off-Site Reading) Portland, Oregon, March 8, 2019

Visiting Writer & Lecturer , XFA’ers Reading Series, University of Alabama, February 19-21

Kentucky Book Festival, Lexington KY, November 15-17, 2018
Reading: Treehouse Reading Series, Vestavia Hills Library in the Forest, Nov. 8, 2018
Panel Presentation: South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 3, 2018 Birmingham, AL
Book Release Party for Mend, Alabama School of Fine Arts November 2, 2018 6:30pm.
Writer in Residence Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL, October 24-27th
Director: Three Dimensional Poetry Exhibit, Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL May 11, 2018
Reading and Panel Presentation: New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA, April 21. 2018
Reading: Bicentennial Poets, Alabama Writers Festival, April 20th, 2018
Reading: Magic City Poetry Festival, Birmingham, AL, April 7th, 2018
Reading: 4X4 Four Readers From Four Literary Organizations, Tampa FL, March 9, 2018 
Reading: University of North Alabama, Florence AL, February 7, 2018
Visiting Writer, James Island County Arts, James Island, S.C. October 19-21, 2017
Magic City Story Tellers June 8, 2017
Three Dimensional Poetry Exhibition, “Chimera: Re-imagined Memory,” May 12, 2017
Birmingham Arts Journal Commemorative Reading, April 27, 2017
Reading: Sacred Grove, New Orleans Poetry Festival, April 21, 2017
Reading: Mystic Female: Black Woman Poets Read, New Orleans Poetry Festival, April 22, 2017
Reading and 3D Poetry Master Class: Centre College, March 29, 2017
Sister City Collective, Swan Day, Desert Island Supply Company March 25, 2017
Reading: Winter Solstice, Birmingham, AL, December 22, 2016
100,000 Poets for Change, Desert Island Supply Co., September 24th, 2016
Reading and Visual Poetry Master Class, Indian Springs School, September 2016
Instructor, ASFA Creative Writing Satellite Camp, Florence, Alabama July 2016
Three Dimensional Poetry Exhibition, “Light and Terror May 2016,” Space One Eleven