CURRENTLY ACCEPTING INVITATIONS
To invite Samyak for poetry readings, craft talks, workshops, classroom visits, panels, and more,
please write at shertok.samyak(at)gmail.com.
EVENTS
Fall 2026
Parkland Poets Reading Series, Virtual, Dec 11
Kenyon College, Dec 1-3
UNT American Literary Review Reading Series, TX, Nov 22
Wild Detectives, Dallas, TX, Nov 21
The Well, Cincinnati, OH, Nov 15
University of Missouri, Nov 12-14
HOT L Poets Series, Baltimore, MD, Nov 9 (with Rick Hilles)
FAWC Friday, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, Nov 6-9 (with Kristy Hughes)
Hot Springs Poetry Festival, AR, Nov 1
Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Mississippi University for Women, Oct 23-25
Mississippi State University, Oct 20
Lemuria Bookstore, Jackson, MS, Oct 16 (with Nadia Alexis)
Utah Valley University, Orem, UT, Oct 13
Utah Humanities Book Festival, Salt Lake Public Library, Oct 11 (with Paisley Rekdal & Kieron Walquist)
University of Mississippi, Oct 8
Book Release Party, Kundiman Mountain West, Virtual, Oct 7 (featuring Guest Readers)
Spring 2025
Visiting Author Series, Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, AR, April 16
Celebrating 75 Years of Shenandoah + 20 Years of Ecotone Offsite Reading, AWP, Los Angeles, CA, March 27
Dinner & Poetry at Mercado La Paloma, Offsite Reading, AWP, Los Angeles, CA, March 26
Visiting Teaching Artists of Forms & Features Reading, Poetry Foundation, Virtual, Feb 25
Fall 2024
Zeitgeist Reading Series, Hibernia Tavern, Little Rock, AR, Nov 13 (with Frederick McKindra)
Forms & Features: A Generative Ghazal Workshop, Poetry Foundation, Virtual, Nov 12
Phosphorescence Contemporary Poetry Series, The Emily Dickinson Museum, Virtual, Oct 17 (with Stephanie Choi & Saba Keramati)
Poetry@thePublic, Faulkner County Library, Conway, AR, Sep 22 (with Hope Coulter)
Once Upon a Time
“Poetry Reading, Craft Talks, & Conversation,” Trinity Valley School, Fort Worth, TX, Mar 8
“Nepali Anglophone Writing: Five Writers from the Nepali Diaspora,” AWP Conference, Kansas City, MO, Feb 8, 2024
“Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Reading & Conversation with Joy Harjo,” Auburn University, Auburn, AL, Oct 2023
“Hughes Fellows Poetry Reading,” Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, Oct 2022
“Writing Fellows Poetry Reading,” Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, Apr 2022
“Write America,” Virtual, Feb 2022 (with Grace Schulman)
“Kundiman Poets at Queens College,” Poetry Reading & Conversation, Virtual, Oct 6, 2021 (with Rohan Chhetri & Jane Wong)
“Poetry Performance,” Utah Arts Festival, Salt Lake City, UT, Aug 27-29, 2021
“Poetry Reading & Author Talk,” “Mine to Tell,” Class Visit, Virtual, Mar 2021
“Aspen Words Writer in Residence Poetry Reading & Author Talk,” Aspen, CO, Aug 2019
“TEDxUniversityOfMississippi Poetry Performance,” University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 2018
“100 Thousand Poets for Change Poetry Reading,” Oxford, MS, Nov 2015 (with Ann Fisher-Wirth, Derrick Harriell, Aziza Barnes, & Molly Brown)