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Public Speaking

A transfemme black poet with a bandana, a shirt that says "Country Girl", and a pink bolo tie reading poems at a bookstore.
Marina Avery Robinson with a keffiyeh around her neck, a shirt depicting teletubbies destroying a cop car, holding an award

(Image Courtesy of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh)

(Commissioned Poem) “Owning Our Future: A Symposium on BIPOC Institutional Ownership”, Kelly Strayhorn Theater (Pittsburgh PA). 16 May 2025

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“Speakeasy: An Evening of Words (Celebrating Pittsburgh’s MFA Graduates)” White Whale Bookstore. 11 April 2025

 

“AWP 2025 Offsite Reading: Technology Vs. The Environment” Heavy Manners Library, 27 March 2025

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(Introduction) “Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series: Layli Long Soldier”, University of Pittsburgh, 25 February 2025

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Cate Peebles’ Book Launch for The Haunting (Tupelo Press), With Diana Khoi Nguyen and Avery Robinson, Bottom Feeder Books, Pittsburgh, PA, 8 February 2025

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“Trauma Informed Workshop on Form, Gaps, and Silences: Blackouts”, University of Pittsburgh / Sexual Assault Prevention Center at Pitt. 7 February 2025.

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“Trauma Informed Workshop on Form, Gaps, and Silences: Erasures”, University of Pittsburgh / Sexual Assault Prevention Center at Pitt. 15 November 2024.

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“Metamorphosis: a monthly Trans and Queer Reading Series (Guest Curated by Avery Robinson),

White Whale Bookstore, Pittsburgh, PA. 25 October 2024

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(Panel) “Confronting the Dead: Black Trans Poets and the Art of Accessing and Immortalizing Past Selves,” Furious Flower Poetry Conference, 22 September 2024.

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Unearthing the ‘I”: A Metamorphosis Poetry Class,” Commonplace Coffee, Pittsburgh, PA. 6 June 2024. “Speakeasy: An Evening of Words (Curated by University of Pittsburgh’s MFA),” University of

Pittsburgh / White Whale, 5 April 2024

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“Palestine Benefit Reading,” White Whale Bookstore. 24 February 2024

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“AWP Poetry with Plants Offsite Reading,” Urban Earth Nursery, Seattle, WA. 9 March 2023

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