RACHEL DILLON
UPCOMING READINGS
March 16, 2026 at 8:00pm EST: A virtual reading for the Blue Convergence Fund with contributors from The Nature of Our Times. Register in advance.
April 13, 2026 at 8:00pm EST: New Voices: Emerging Writers reading at the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA, with Talin Tahajian and Christian Wessels.
PAST READINGS
October 25, 2025: Boston Book Festival: Poetry Makes Us Brave, a reading and panel discussion with Deborah Leipziger, Krysten Hill, Linda Carney-Goodrich, and Tzynya Pinchback at the Goethe-Institut in Boston, MA. Listen to the recording (10:15-19:06).
May 25, 2025: Mass Poetry Festival's "Bridging the Gap" series: Poetry Makes Us Brave, a virtual reading with Deborah Leipziger, Krysten Hill, Linda Carney-Goodrich, Neil Silberblatt, and Tzynya Pinchback.
March 13, 2025: Volume Poetry Reading with Serena Alagappan, Henry Koskoff, Inkyoo Lee, and Dan Poppick at Dear Friend Books, Brooklyn, NY.
February 18, 2025: Boston University Black Box series with Helena Duncan, Annaka Saari, and Eric Grunwald at Boston University, Boston, MA.
July 27, 2024: Launch Party for The Illegalist, Issue 1, with Dogtown Books. at the Manship Artists' Residency, Gloucester, MA.
April 25, 2024: Boston Voices: An Evening of Poetry and Connection with Christine Casson and The Napkin Poetry Review at LaiSun Keane Gallery, Boston, MA.
March 8, 2024: International Women's Day Reading with the Gloucester Writers' Center at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church in Gloucester, MA.
July 12, 2023: Celebrating the Boston University MFA Class of 2023 at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, MA.
March 16, 2026 at 8:00pm EST: A virtual reading for the Blue Convergence Fund with contributors from The Nature of Our Times. Register in advance.
April 13, 2026 at 8:00pm EST: New Voices: Emerging Writers reading at the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA, with Talin Tahajian and Christian Wessels.
PAST READINGS
October 25, 2025: Boston Book Festival: Poetry Makes Us Brave, a reading and panel discussion with Deborah Leipziger, Krysten Hill, Linda Carney-Goodrich, and Tzynya Pinchback at the Goethe-Institut in Boston, MA. Listen to the recording (10:15-19:06).
May 25, 2025: Mass Poetry Festival's "Bridging the Gap" series: Poetry Makes Us Brave, a virtual reading with Deborah Leipziger, Krysten Hill, Linda Carney-Goodrich, Neil Silberblatt, and Tzynya Pinchback.
March 13, 2025: Volume Poetry Reading with Serena Alagappan, Henry Koskoff, Inkyoo Lee, and Dan Poppick at Dear Friend Books, Brooklyn, NY.
February 18, 2025: Boston University Black Box series with Helena Duncan, Annaka Saari, and Eric Grunwald at Boston University, Boston, MA.
July 27, 2024: Launch Party for The Illegalist, Issue 1, with Dogtown Books. at the Manship Artists' Residency, Gloucester, MA.
April 25, 2024: Boston Voices: An Evening of Poetry and Connection with Christine Casson and The Napkin Poetry Review at LaiSun Keane Gallery, Boston, MA.
March 8, 2024: International Women's Day Reading with the Gloucester Writers' Center at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church in Gloucester, MA.
July 12, 2023: Celebrating the Boston University MFA Class of 2023 at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, MA.
CONVERSATIONS
November 18, 2025: A conversation with Robert Pinsky, Ha Jin, Sigrid Nunez, and Stephen Greenblatt in celebration of Driven to Write, with the Harvard Bookstore at the Cambridge Public Library.
April 15, 2025: A conversation with Seán Hewitt in celebration of his debut novel Open, Heaven at Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, MA.
WORKSHOPS
November 18, 2025: A conversation with Robert Pinsky, Ha Jin, Sigrid Nunez, and Stephen Greenblatt in celebration of Driven to Write, with the Harvard Bookstore at the Cambridge Public Library.
April 15, 2025: A conversation with Seán Hewitt in celebration of his debut novel Open, Heaven at Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, MA.
WORKSHOPS
Rocks, Trees, and Me: Exploring the Self Through Ecopoetry at the Sawyer Free Library, March 1. Learn more.
Photo by Madi Goldman, 2024.