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Reader - Renegade: An Exquisite Corpse Poem by Queens Poets - QUEENSBOUND Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends Event
with Allia Abdullah-Matta, Isabel Díaz Alanis, Jennifer Cendaña Armas, Sherese Francis, Abeer Y. Hoque, Dena Igusti, Nadia Misir, JoliAmour DuBose-Morris, and Luvon Roberson
World’s Borough Bookshop; Jackson Heights, NY - September 17, 2025
Reader - Revolution: An Exquisite Corpse Poem by Queens Poets - QUEENSBOUND Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends Event
with Allia Abdullah-Matta, Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Jennifer Cendaña Armas, Abeer Y. Hoque, Roberson, and KC Trommer
Facebook Live - September 24, 2024
Panelist - Getting Started with Writing & Publishing at Muktadhara Foundation’s NY Bangla Book Fair
with Suswana Chowdhury, Nahiyan Elias, and Fabliha Yeaqub
Jamaica Performing Arts Center; Queens, NY - July 17, 2023
Writer - Woodside Open Studios at Mondo & Heptagon Studios
with Claudia Schellenberg, Costanza Musumeci, Dan Selzer, Deanne D'Aloia, Deborah Wasserman, DJ Rekha, Helen Quinn, Humphrey Bilger, Jess Levey, Jessie Bruah, Jilian Fisher, John Bjerklie, Marcy Chevali, Nathaniel Joslin, Poogy Bjerklie, Roy Beeson, and Stacy Mehrfar
Queens, NY - June 10 & 24, 2023
Panelist - In Search of Bengali Harlem: Film Screening and Discussion
with Vivek Bald, Alaudin Ullah, Nahar Alam, Shahana Hanif, DRUM, and S. Nadia Hussain
BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center; New York, NY - April 27, 2023
Reader - Roses: In the Mouth of a Lion Queens Book Celebration
with Bushra Rehman, Jai Dulani, Joseph O. Legaspi, Soniya Munshi, Patricia Park, Christine Kandic Torres, and DJ Rekha
Viva La Heights; Jackson Heights, NY - March 16, 2023
Reader - Recollection: An Exquisite Corpse Poem by Queens Poets - QUEENSBOUND Brooklyn Book Festival Event
with Moncho Alvarado, Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Sherese Francis, Abeer Y. Hoque, Dena Igusti, Hiromi Kiba, Allia Abdullah-Matta, Tori Ashley Matos, and Robert Ostrom
Facebook Live - October 3, 2022
Reader - Laal Grishmo
Andrew Freedman Home; Bronx, NY - June 9, 2022
Writer - Woodside Open Studios at Mondo & Heptagon Studios
with Claudia Schellenberg, Costanza Musumeci, Dan Selzer, Deanne D'Aloia, Deborah Wasserman, DJ Rekha, Helen Quinn, Humphrey Bilger, Jess Levey, Jessie Bruah, Jilian Fisher, John Bjerklie, Marcy Chevali, Nathaniel Joslin, Poogy Bjerklie, Roy Beeson, and Stacy Mehrfar
Queens, NY - June 12, 2022
Reader - Ritual: An Exquisite Corpse Poem by Queens Poets - QUEENSBOUND Brooklyn Book Festival Event
with Pichchenda Bao, Sherese Francis, Abeer Y. Hoque, Joseph O. Legaspi, Robert Ostrom, Sahar Romani, and KC Trommer
Facebook Live - October 1, 2021
Reader - A Late Summer Reading #2
with Danielle Batalion Ola, Julie Ae Kim, Naomi Shuyama-Gómez, and Yasmin Adele Majeed
Brooklyn, NY - July 25, 2021
Reader - Queens Public Library Open Mic
Virtual event - May 20, 2021
Speaker - The Truth to Power Show hosted by Vijay R. Nathan
Radio Free Brooklyn - May 9, 2021
Reader / Cast - Table reading of “The Straight Path” TV pilot script by Abeer Y. Hoque
with Nashwa Zaman, Mita Rahman, Arpan Chowdhury, Usama Siddiquee, Zachary Ullah, Dima Nefartity, Shafin Azim, Maher Hoque, David Lombroso, and Zubaira Ahmed
Virtual event - March 13, 2021
Reader - Utah State University Ekushe February 2021
with Larry Cesspooch, Petrona Xemi Tapepechul, and Jenny Anonto Bernadette
Utah Humanities and USU International Student Council virtual event - February 23, 2021
Panelist - Dispatch: Poetry for the People, in Public Spaces
with KC Trommer and Jared Harél
Urban Omnibus podcast - December 3, 2020
Reader - A Reckoning: QUEENSBOUND Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event
with KC Trommer, Jared Harél, Abeer Y. Hoque, Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Pichchenda Bao, Robert Ostrom, and Joseph O. Legaspi
Facebook Live - October 2, 2020
Reader - Our Home and the World: Poetry for Laal NYC
with Tarfia Faizullah and Samira Sadeque
AAWW Facebook Live - May 28, 2020
Reader - Bronx Rising! East Meets West: International Mother Tongue Day
with Samira Sadeque, Royal Bengal Tea House, and various other performing artists
Bronx Music Heritage Center; Bronx, NY - February 22, 2020
Reader - Shahitto Academy Monthly Poetry Reading
with various NYC-based Bengali poets
Jackson Heights, NY - August 30, 2019
Reader - QUEENSBOUND at Kaufman Arts District Backlot Festival
with KC Trommer, Jared Harél, Joseph O. Legaspi, Abeer Y. Hoque, Pichchenda Bao, Ryan Black, and Sahar Romani
Mar’s; Astoria, NY - September 21, 2019
Reader - Celebrating the Bangladeshi American Experience: Kundiman Immigrant Heritage Month Event
with Abeer Y. Hoque
NYPL Parkchester Branch; Bronx, NY - June 25, 2019
Reader - Eileen’s Fortune Cookie Reading
with Abet Speaks, Ahnnie, Christian Angeles, Jen Hyde, Dena Igusti, Angela Y. Law, Eileen Ramos, Summer Dawn Reyes, Maria Rubio, Rebecca H. Wang, and Yuri
Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop; Brooklyn, NY - September 9, 2017
Reader - Newtown Literary’s Writing from Art: An Ekphrastic Tour of Socrates Sculpture Park
with Joseph O. Legaspi and Christopher X. Shade
Socrates Sculpture Park; Queens, NY - July 16, 2017
Reader - Drunken! Careening! Writers!
with Lydia Cortes, Carol Rosenfeld, and KC Trommer
KBG Bar & Lit Mag; New York, NY - April 20, 2017
Moderator - Book Launch: Abeer Hoque on Olive Witch
with Abeer Y. Hoque
Astoria Bookshop; Astoria, NY - February 24, 2017
Reader - Writers Resist: Queens
with Bani Amor, Reese Francis, KC Trommer, Christen Clifford, Maria Lisella, and Vikas Menon
Terraza 7; Jackson Heights, NY - February 1, 2017
Reader - Original poetry response to artworks in Sheherzade’s Gift: Subversive Narratives curated by Jaishri Abichandani
Center for Book Arts; New York, NY - August 10, 2016
Moderator - Daughters of Brooklyn
with Tanaïs and Naomi Jackson
AAWW; New York, NY - August 13, 2015
Reader - Queens Represent!
with Bushra Rehman, Jennifer Chowdhury, Dulani, and Soniya Munshi
Astoria Bookshop; Astoria, NY - January 14, 2014
Reader - Corona: An Ode to Bushra Rehman’s Queens
with Bushra Rehman, Jaishri Abichandani, Jennifer Chowdhury, Dulani, Soniya Munshi, and Sa’dia Rehman
AAWW and SAWCC; New York, NY - September 13, 2013