SPEAKING
Rebecca Gayle Howell speaks widely on topics like poetry of place, ecopoetics, sacred literature, and literary foodways, presenting for communities like the Edinburgh Book Festival, the American Academy of Poets, No Kid Hungry, and the Galápagos International Poetry Festival, as well as wherever her work is taught.
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2027
Jan 05
Reading with Acie Clark & Conyer Clayton
Carmichael’s Books
Louisville, KY
March 17 - 20
AWP
Chicago, IL
April 01
Clinton & Mary Opal Moore Appalachian
Writer’s Residency
Murray State University
Murray, KY
April 03
Workshop, Reading, & Public Conversation with Ciona Rouse
The Porch
Nashville, TN
April 10
A performance of the aria from Say Your Name, with Reena Esmail
David Alan Miller, Conductor; Saali Oak, Soprano; Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Soprano
Albany Symphony Orchestra
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
Albany, NY
2026
May 16
Public conversation with Katerina Stoykova (Virtual)
May 26
Public conversation with Martha Park (Virtual)
June 17
Signing of Erase Genesis
Sewanee School of Letters
University of the South
Sewanee, TN
September 07, 8pm
Public conversation with Rattle’s Editor,
Timothy Green (Virtual)
October 26, 3pm
Class visit (Virtual)
North Carolina State University MFA
Raleigh, NC
November 03
Class visit (Virtual)
Francis Parker School of Louisville
Louisville, KY
November 14, 11am - 2:30pm
Reading from Erase Genesis
Kentucky Arts & Letters Day
The Berry Center
New Castle, KY
Wir
A new song cycle
Composed by Reena Esmail
Written by Rebecca Gayle Howell
Premiered and performed by Hillary Hahn, violin; Matthias Goerne, baritone; & Yekwon Sunwoo, piano
October 24
World Premiere
Spivey Hall
Morrow, GA
October 25
Hodgson Concert Hall
Athens, GA
November 30
Davies Symphony Hall
San Francisco, CA
December 02
Granada Theater
Santa Barbara, CA
December 03
Disney Hall
Los Angeles, CA
December 05
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
San Diego, CA
Select Recent Events
October 21 & 22, 2025
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
University of the South
Sewanee, TN
June 11
Reading with Jaime Quatro
June 8-July 18
Teaching
Sewanee School of Letters
University of the South
Sewanee, TN
February 02, 2025
Reading with Claudia Prado
[Virtual]
Word Up Community Bookstore
New York, NY
May 17 - 19, 2024
Presenting with Pam Houston & Jason Mott
Looking Glass Rock Writers Conference
Presenting with Pam Houston & Jason Mott
Brevard College
Brevard, NC
April 03 - 05, 2024
Presenting with Major Jackson, Ruben Quesada,
Allison Benis White, & Tracy K. Smith
Beall Poetry Festival
Baylor University
Waco, TX
December 6, 2023
Public conversation with Ashley M. Jones
[Virtual]
Prince George’s County Office of Human Rights
Prince George's County, MD
November 3 - 4
Keynote Address
”CD Wright as Photographer”
CD Wright Women Writers Conference
University of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR
October 12 2023
Public conversation with Claudia Prado
[Virtual]
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX
November 5 [sold out], 2022
World Premiere | Say Your Name: A suffrage-rights cantata
Written by Rebecca Gayle Howell & Reena Esmail
Amherst College
Amherst, MA
October 21. 2022
Reading with Crystal Wilkinson
[Virtual]
United States Artists
Chicago, IL
June 11, 2022
Keynote
“Roots Music: On Poetry, Pulse, and Place”
Mountain Heritage Literary Festival
Lincoln Memorial University
Harrogate, TN
March 24 at 6:30pm EST [Virtual], 2022
Poetry Reading
Broadsided Press and the Fine Arts Work Center
AWP Conference (Offsite/Online)
Philadelphia, PA
Jan 25 at 6pm EST [Virtual], 2022
Reading & public conversation
bell hooks Memorial
Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning
Lexington, KY
July 17 at Noon EST. [Virtual], 2021
Panelist
“Of Family, History, and Appetites”
1455 Literary Arts SummerFest 2021.
Winchester, VA
