Upcoming Events

April 24, 2024 - Poetry reading, riffraff bookstore and bar, 60 Valley Street #107A, Providence, RI, 7 pm - 8 pm, with Sussy Santana, Joanna Brown, Wendy Grossman

April 13, 2024 - Poetry reading, Books on the Square, 417 Angell Street, Providence, RI, 6 - 8 pm, Poetry Night with Joanna Doris Brown, Ceridwen McKenna, Wendy Grossman, & surprise guests

March 16, 2024, Women Telling Their Stories Author/Book Fair Event, Millrace Kitchen, 40 South Main Street, Woonsocket, RI, 1:30 - 5:30, with Annie Echevarria De Saquic, Margie Stuppard, Michelle Davidson, Precious Clouthier, Robyn Frye, Diana Garlington, Thea Fielding-Lowe, Wendy Grossman. Free event, author interviews, live podcast with Diana Garlington’s Cristal Conversations, free books for K- 12 graders provided by Books are Wings, live streamed on The Inside Out Show.

October 6, 2023, 7 – 9 pm - COUPLET, 12th Anniversary reading, Red Room at KGB Bar, NYC, a quarterly reading series, produced, curated and hosted by poet Leah Umansky since 2011, featuring both emerging and established poets. Readers include Wendy Grossman, KC Trommer, Elisa Gonzalez, JP Howard, Michael Dumanis

July 12, 2023 - Stranger Stories PVD, Askew, Providence, RI, A live lit night of true stories by local writers, produced by Fallon Masterson, Family Feud,

May 10, 2023 - Stranger Stories PVD, Askew, Providence, RI, The Greatest Love of All

August 24, 2022 - Stranger Stories, Askew, Providence, RI, Neighbors

January 30, 2020 - Stranger Stories, Acoustic Java, Providence, RI, First Date

2023, LitArts RI, Arts and Health Consultant for writing workshop facilitators for this non-profit literary organization’s, Cultivating Care Through Restorative Narratives Series

2023, RI State Council on the Arts, Self-Care Day for Teaching Artists, Reposo Hour session, co-facilitator with Sussy Santana

2023, Office of Healthy Communities, Arts, Health and Healing Table Event for Asian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Providence, RI

2023, RI Public Health Association Public Health Summit, co-presenter with Melody Gamba, Rachel Balaban, Nicole O’Malley, Anisa Raoof, Steven Boudreau. RI Arts and Health Network, Providence, RI

2023, In Conversation: Arts and Health, co-presenter with Rachel Balaban, for Arts and Health Network event, Providence, RI

2020, Artists At The Table: Research in Arts and Health Learning Community, participated with cohort of artists, and researcher, Dr. Stacey Springs, in this RI Arts and Health Network pilot program, where we learned how to approach developing an arts and health research project, demystifying the process in an accessible way.

2019, CityMatCH Maternal and Child Health Leadership Conference, co-presenter with Valerie Tutson, Rachel Balaban, Nicole O’Malley, Jeannine Chartier, RI Arts and Health Network, Arts as Advocacy, Providence, RI

2018 Jerusalem Peacebuilders,Youth Leadership Institute, Social Media Poetry Workshop for 17 Israeli, Palestinian, American youth coming together to develop skills to become leaders and peace builders in their homelands, Brattleboro, VT

2017 American Psychiatric Nursing Association Conference, Presenters: Wendy Grossman, Laura White Carpenter, How the Arts Build Bridges and Transform Culture in Healthcare, New Hampshire

2017 Chariho High School Pathways to Careers in Health, Presenters: Wendy Grossman, Laura White Carpenter, Chariho, RI