Readings

Upcoming Events

Graphic advertising Jessica Cuello's Summer and Fall 2023 Tour. Includes cover of Yours, Creature (Munch's Madonna) and a photo of Jessica. Text duplicates that of this page.
Graphic advertising Cuello’s 2023 Yours, Creature tour

May 11, 2023, 7 pm EDT: Reimagining Frankenstein: a NAWP Panel & Reading with Addie Tsai, online.

May 16, 7pm EDT: JackLeg Press Launch for Yours, Creature with Dorianne Laux, Rita Mookeriee & Brittney Corrigan, online.

June 4, 2023, 4pm EDT: Reading at Hudson Valley Writers Center with Jennifer Martelli and Matt Donnovan. Sleepy Hollow, NY.

June 12, 7pm EDT: Bad Mouth Reading Series, online.

June 26, 2023, 7pm EDT: Garden of Verse Summer Reading Series with Matthew Lippman. Ridgefield, CT.

July 5th, 2023, 7pm EDT: White Whale Books with Sharon Suzuki-Martinez and Shanta Lee, online.

July 6, 2023, 7pm EDT: Bright Hills Press Reading Series, online.

August 9, 2023, 7pm EDT: Wednesday Night Poetry Series, hosted by Kai Coggin, online.

August 16, 2023, 7pm EDT: Grolier Bookshop Reading, Cambridge, MA.

September 1, 2023, 7pm EDT: DMQ Salon, online.

October 11, 7:30 pm EDT: What the Universe Is Series, online.

October 19-21: Lit Youngstown Fall Literary Festival, Youngstown, OH.

November 18, 2023, 2:00 pm EST: Voice of Poetry at Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, MA. In-person with Charles Coe, Richard Hoffman, and Steve Kuusisto.

upcoming events in 2024

  • Finger Lakes Art Center • Dansville, NY
  • KGB Bar with Elisabet Velasquez • New York, NY

Past Events

Jessica Cuello at Hamilton College operating the letterpress. She is wearing a blue smock and black face mask and operating the letterpress, which is printing a broadside of her poem, "Limbo"
Jessica Cuello printing a broadside at Hamilton College, 2023.
  • FUMFA Poets & Writers Live: May 7, 2023
  • Syracuse Downtown Writers Center Fundraiser Brunch, hosted by Judy Carr: May 7, 2023.
  • Utica University, Reading for The Eugene Paul Nassar Prize: April 20, 2023.
  • SUNY Oswego class visit: April 5, 2023.
  • TRIO Reading, hosted by Lenny Dellarocca with Jennifer Martelli and Rick Mulkey: March 25, 2023.
  • AWP Book signing, Barrow Street Booth: March 10, 2023.
  • OffSite Reading at Seattle Beer Company with Four Way Books and Autumn House Press: March 9, 2023, 7:00-9:00pm, AWP 2023.
  • Hamilton College: A CNY Humanities Corridor Event with poet Armen Davoudian, February 10, 2023.
  • Publishing Panel with Meghan Sterling, Jessica Jacobs, Michael Kleber-Diggs, Joan Kwon Glass, and Sally Rosen Kindred. Online: January 14, 2023.
  • Norwalk Public Library Indie Author Event: November 5, 2022.
  • Wells College Visiting Writers Series: Masterclass followed by reading: November 1, 2022.
  • JackLeg Press Publishing Event and Reading at American University: October 22, 2022.
  • Black Spring Books, Brooklyn. In-person reading with Arden Levine and Sally Rosen Kindred: September 17, 2022.
  • Persistence of Cormorants, Brooklyn. In-person reading with Arden Levine and Sally Rosen Kindred: September 18, 2022.
  • Emily Dickinson Museum Phosphorescence Series with Joan Kwon Glass and Eugenia Leigh: September 22, 2022.
  • The Notebooks Collective. In Conversation: Jessica Cuello & Jan Beatty: July 21, 2022.
  • Generative poetry workshop at the Hudson Valley Writers Center: July 16, 2022.
  • The Bookcellar, with Chloe Martinez, Alina Stefanescu, and Shannon K. Winston: June 16, 2022.
  • Woodstock Poetry Society Featured Reader: June 11, 2022.
  • A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series, hosted by Donna Vorreyer. Reading with Leanne Dunic and Joan Kwon Glass: April 21, 2022.
  • Poets Gather: Reading with Leanne Dunic, Derek Pollard, and Carolyne Wright: April 7, 2022.
  • Diode Release party for Joan Kwon Glass: April 2, 2022.
  • AWP Conference at UCAL Philadelphia, with Albert Abonado, Leanne Dunic, Richard Hamilton, Amorak Huey, and Han Vanderhart: March 24, 2022.
  • Readings on the Pike, virtual reading hosted by Hannah Grieco with Jan Beatty, DeMisty Bellinger, Cameron MacKenzie, Jude Marr, Joel Peckham, Bradley Sides, Dan Brady, James Tate Hill: March 10, 2022.
  • Magers & Quinn Booksellers. Reading with Chloe Martinez, Alina Stefanescu, and Shannon K. Winston: March 2, 2022.
  • TGI Cast Virtual Reading hosted by Treena Thibodeau: February 4, 2022.
  • Taking Care Conference, sponsored by Writers and Books: January 22, 2022.
  • Dire Literary Series, hosted by Tim Gager: January 21, 2022.
  • Mercy Street Reading Series, hosted by Ruben Quesada: January 2, 2022.
  • Unbuttoned Poetry Series at Luthier’s Co-op: December 9, 2021.
  • Syracuse Downtown Writers Center: November 19, 2021.
  • The David Has Zoom Pro For a Few Months Reading Series: November 12, 2021. With Jon Lemay, Chloe Martinez, Tom Snarsky, and Ryan Vine.
  • Event hosted by Lucy Bucknell of the Johns Hopkins Film and Media Studies Center: November 11, 2021. With Zoraida Diaz, Somer Greer, Jean McGarry, and Lily Scialom-Herman.
  • Caffe Lena: November 3, 2021.
  • The Word Works’ Café Muse: November 1, 2021. With Katherine Young
  • Wild and Precious Life Series: October 20, 2021. Event with Taylor Byas, Allison Blevins, and Arden Levine.
  • Hudson Valley Writers Center: September 22, 2021. Reading with Peter Filkins and Major Jackson.
  • Wednesday Night Poetry Series: September 8, 2021. Hosted by Kai Coggins.
  • SoFloPoJo: June 18, 2021. A reading by poets from the GRABBED anthology.
  • “TEACH: A Reading featuring Poets Who Teach,” with Faisal Mohyuddin and Leah Umansky (virtual event): May 20, 2021.
  • RHINO 2021 (virtual event): April 30, 2021.
  • ellipsis… volume 57 (virtual event): April 23, 2021.
  • Writers and Books, Rochester, NY: February 6, 20; March 6, 20, 2021. Cuello held a four-session poetry writing workshop, “Creation & Revision.”
  • Writers & Books, Rochester, NY: November 14, 2020. Taught virtual workshop, “Writing Poetry from the Outside In.”
  • Writers & Books, Rochester, NY: November 10, 2020. Video of the event.
  • Writers & Books, Rochester, NY: March 24, 2020. Video of the event.
  • The Flytrap Series at Small World Books, Rochester, NY: August 10, 2019
  • Somerset Poetry Series, Bridgewater, NJ: July 3, 2018
  • Millbrook Literary Festival, Millbrook, NY: May 19, 2018
  • Suffolk County Community College Writing Festival, Long Island, NY: April 26, 2018
  • Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, NY: April 4, 2018
  • Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY: March 4, 2018
  • Downtown Writers’ Center Literary Fundraiser, Syracuse, NY: February 10, 2018
  • Joaquin Miller Reading Series, Washington DC: July 16, 2017
  • Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca, NY: May 6, 2017
  • Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse, NY: April 27, 2017
  • SUNY Adirondack, Queensbury, NY: April 5, 2017
  • ArtRage, Syracuse, NY: March 2, 2017
  • Berl’s Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, NY: February 18, 2017
  • Johnny Pistola’s, Menacing Hedge AWP, Washington DC: February 9, 2017
  • Wall of Books, AWP, Washington DC: February 8, 2017
  • WAYO 104.3 FM Radio Broadcast, Rochester, NY: December 8, 2016
  • Wells College Visiting Writer Series, Aurora, NY: November 10, 2016
  • Nox Bar, Rochester, NY: November 17, 2016
  • Downtown Writers Center, Syracuse, NY: November 18, 2016
  • River’s End Bookstore, Oswego, NY: November 26, 2016
  • Cruel April Stone Canoe authors & readers, Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse, NY: April 28, 2016
  • Point of Contact Gallery with Saltonstall Fellows, Syracuse, NY: October 29, 2015
  • Saltonstall Foundation for The Arts, Ithaca, NY: September 6, 2015
  • Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse, NY: April 23, 2015
  • AWP, Cafe Segue, Minneapolis, MN: April 10, 2015
  • Downtown Writers Center, Syracuse, NY: March 6, 2015
  • Cazenovia Counterpoint, Cazenovia, NY: July 2014
  • 601 Tully, Syracuse, NY: April 2014
  • Shaler Library, Pittsburgh, PA: November 2013
  • Redhouse Cafe, Syracuse, NY: 2013
  • ArtRage, Syracuse, NY: May 2012
  • River’s End Bookstore, Oswego, NY: April 2012
  • Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival, Bronxville, NY: April 2012
  • Nuyorican Cafe, New York, NY: October 2011
  • Schweinfurth Museum, Auburn, NY: September 2011
  • Creekside Bookstore, Skaneateles, NY: July 2011
  • Cazenovia Counterpoint, Cazenonia NY: July 2011

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