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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2026
November 14
Premiere, with Reena Esmail
Providence Singers
Providence, RI
2025
June 11
Reading with Jamie Quatro
Sewanee School of Letters
University of the South
Sewanee, TN
June 8-July 18
Teaching
Sewanee School of Letters
University of the South
Sewanee, TN
March 15
Reading with Ashley M. Jones
The Lexington Gathering
Singletary Center for the Arts
Lexington, KY
February 02
Reading with Claudia Prado
Word Up Community Bookstore
New York, NY
Selected Past Events
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 [Virtual], 2023
Public conversation with Ashley M. Jones
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 [Virtual], 2023
Public conversation with Claudia Prado
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX
November 5 [sold out], 2022
World Premiere | Say Your Name: A suffrage-rights cantata
A collaboration with Reena Esmail
Amherst College
Amherst, MA
October 21 [Virtual], 2022
Reading with Crystal Wilkinson
United States Artists
Chicago, IL
June 11 [Virtual], 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
May 2 at 7pm EST. [Virtual], 2021
Poetry Reading
Chiasmus Reading Series.
Knoxville, TN
