Events

Lee Herrick, Poet Laureate of California and Lory Bedikian read on Sunday July 27, 2025


The Booksmith Bookstore
1727 Haight St
San Francisco, CA


June 28, 2025 Miriam’s Garden Poetry Series | Hyde Park Miriam Matthews Branch Library

Miriam’s Garden Poetry Series reading


May 29, 2025 Philosophical Research Society poetry reading with Chad Sweeney, Michelle Bitting and William Archila



April 27, 2025, 4 pm Reading for the Poetry Stage at LA Times Festival of Books | Featured poet

Poetry Stage | LA Times Festival of Books

April 27, 2025


April 21, 2025 First Press Reading Series | Woodbury University


April 3, 2025 Red Hen Press reading with Nancy Krikorian and Arthur Kayzakian


March 29, 6-9 PM, AWP Off Site Reading | Presented by Gulf Coast Lit Mag, Gold Line Press and Ricochet Editions | TRIPLE BIND: an AWP Off-Site | A Good Used Book | Los Angeles, CA

AWP offsite reading, also on 3.29.25:

March 26-29 AWP CONFERENCE | LOS ANGELES!

Signing at the following booths/tables:

•Poets House / Prairie Schooner / Adroit / Letras Latinas / International Armenian Literary Alliance


Feb. 28, 2025 Judging By the Cover Bookstore | Fresno, CA


Feb. 12, 2025 Village Well/Culter City poetry reading with Kim Dower


Reading for Poets House/New York | New Works series:

Nov 12, 2024 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Poets House | New York

New Works: Lory Bedikian, Saba Keramati, Megan Pinto, and Eduardo Martínez-Leyva
Remote  |  Tuesday  |  Nov 12  |  6:30-7:30pm ET


Oct. 27, 2024 Village Poets/Bolton Hall Museum



Oct. 19, 2024 Walt Whitman/Poets Building Bridges reading


Oct. 8, 2024 Cobalt Poets Reading Series | Featured reader:


Private Book Launch at the La Crescenta Womens Club | Sept. 22, 2024:


The final installment of IALA’s Literary Lights 2024, was a reading and conversation with Brian Turner, co-sponsored by University of Nebraska Press and Prairie Schooner, & took place virtually on September 21, 2024.



Vroman’s Bookstore, Sept. 7, 2024



July 10, 2024, at 7:00 PM ET
2024 Poets & Writers Get the Word Out 2024

Poetry Reading
Virtual Event – Free –
RSVP Here 


April 30, 2024
Harry's Poetry Hour: Lory Bedikian & William Archila