September 26, 2007 Olympia, WA
South Sound Voices: Healing the Wounds of War
The South Sound Voices education project, in collaboration with Voices in Wartime and the Northwest Spokenword LAB (SpLAB) presents poets Dunya Mikhail, Sarah Zale, Bill Ransom, and Roy Seitz. South Puget Sound Community College, Minnaert Center for the Performing Arts.
November 14-17, 2007 Vancouver, British Columbia
Poetry As Metaphor: A Tool To Shape Social Change
Paper presented for Educating for a Civilization of Peace: Proceedings of the 2007 International Education for Peace (EFP) Conference.
December 16, 2007 Seattle, WA
Approaching 60 years of Human Rights: A Reading & Celebration
Sponsored by Seattle Youth for Human Rights. Host: Poet Laureate for Youth For Human Rights International, Larry Jaffe.
January 12, 2008 Port Angeles, WA
Israel and Palestine: A Segue To Where American Educators Go Wrong
American Association of University Women (AAUW). Multi-media presentation about November 2006 travels to Israel and Palestine with Compassionate Listening Project (www.compassionatelistening.org). An introduction to the pedagogy of Education For Peace (www.efpinternational.org) to encourage discussion about the role of education in addressing world problems.
January 25, 2009 at 4p.m. Seattle, WA
Come Together: Imagine Peace Group Reading
Just a few days after Inauguration Day, five local poets are to be on hand here to read from their contributions to a new anthology of peace poetry. Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press), edited by Philip Metres, Ann Smith, and Larry Smith, features the work of dozens of contemporary poets, and some by "precedents" such as Darwish, Levertov, and Rukeyser. Expected to read Jan. 25 are Holly Hughes, Susan Rich, Derek Sheffield, Martha Silano, and Sarah Zale. Come Together is "a book for all times: Poems of Witness and Elegy, Exhortation and action, Reconciliation, Shared Humanity, Wildness and Home, Ritual and Vigil, Meditation and Prayer."
March 11, 2009 Lynnwood, WA
“Peace and Reconciliation Symposium.” Four English research classes (topic: War and Genocide) present projects to campus and community. Edmonds Community College.
May 8, 2009 Lynnwood, WA
“Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium.”Mission: to educate the campus about bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on this planet. Includes development of English course with service learning; students participate as break-out session leaders at symposium. Edmonds Community College.
April 8, 2010 Denver, CO
West Side Books, 3434 W. 32nd Ave.
April 10, 2010 Denver, CO
AWP Conference—Book signing—Colorado Convention Center
April 21, 2010 Woodinville, WA
BARNES & NOBLE, 18025 Garden Way NE, 7 pm
April 29, 2010 Port Townsend, WA
Northwind Art Gallery, northwindarts.org,
2409 Jefferson Street with Martha Silano
