Public Readings
2020 "Tea with Don and Becky" discussion with Becky Cooper (We Keep the Dead Close)
2019 Clovis Public Library, Clovis NM
2019 Eastern New Mexico University, Portales NM
2018 Basically Books, Hilo, Hawai'i
2016 Basically Books, Hilo, Hawai'i
2015 Hilo Public Library
2014 Writers on Stage, Cloverdale Performing Arts Center, Cloverdale CA (audio)
2014 Pegasus Books, Berkeley CA (audio)
2014 Why There Are Words, Sausalito CA (audio and video)
2013 Talking Leaves Bookstore, Buffalo NY (book launch)
2013 Gray Hair Series (Hallwalls/Just Buffalo Literary Center/Earth’s Daughters, September)
Buffalo NY (audio)
2013 Villa Maria College, (September), Buffalo NY (audio)
2013 Portales Arts Council Public Readings (Opening and Closing, July-August) Portales, NM (audio)
2013 Center for Inquiry/Just Buffalo Literary Cafe Series (featured reader, June) Amherst NY (audio)
2012 Center for Inquiry/Just Buffalo Literary Cafe Series (featured reader, Nov) Amherst NY
2012 Visiting Writers Series, Eastern New Mexico University (featured reader, September)
Portales, NM (audio)
2011 Wordflight (featured reader, October) Buffalo NY
2011 Center for Inquiry/Just Buffalo Literary Cafe Series (featured reader, July) Amherst NY
2010 Gray Hair Reunion (Hallwalls/Just Buffalo Literary Center/Earth’s Daughters, June)
Buffalo NY
2010 Center for Inquiry/Just Buffalo Literary Cafe Series (featured reader, May) Amherst NY
2009 TNB Literary Experience (The Nervous Breakdown, December) New York, NY (video)
2008 Gray Hair Series (Hallwalls/Just Buffalo Literary Center/Earth’s Daughters, October)
Buffalo NY (video)
2008 Tru-Teas Poetry Readings (with Ruth Thompson), Buffalo NY
1997 Tufts University English Department/Anthropology Club, Medford MA
Papers or Readings Presented at National Meetings
2008 Reading of prize-winning fiction (AAA, San Francisco, CA) Society for Humanistic
Anthropology session ("Have You Seen Wanawo?" read by Ayala Emmett)
1998 Reading of prize-winning fiction (AAA, Philadelphia, PA) Society for Humanistic
Anthropology session ("John Brown's Body," read by G. Reck)
1994 "Three Pieces in War Time" (AAA, Atlanta, GA)
1993 Reading of prize-winning poetry (AAA, Washington, DC) Society for Humanistic
Anthropology session ("Sightlines," and "Shifting Agriculture")
1981 "Frozen Assets in Nagovisi" (ASAO, San Diego, CA)
1980 "Human Bipedal Speed and Endurance: Implications for Early Hominid Evolution" (AAPA,
Niagara Falls, NY)
1980 "Today We'll Eat Rice: Dependence and Independence in Nagovisi" (ASAO, Galveston, TX)
1979 "Nagovisi Women in Food and Cash Crop Production" (ASAO, Clearwater, FL)
1976 "Nagovisi Cacao Agriculture" (ASAO, Charleston, SC)
AAA = American Anthropological Association
ASAO = Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
AAPA = American Association of Physical Anthropologists