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Readings & Other Events
September 11, 2024
The Personal is Political: Gay Male Poets Reckon with Identity on 9/11.
This event is part of the 2024 HOT Festival at Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St. New York, NY
How does individual identity intersect with that of a larger community, and of a nation? Poet & critic Jerome Ellison Murphy introduces a one-hour reading featuring four gay male poets, Sebastian Doherty, Joseph Legaspi, David Groff, and Brad Vogel, to reckon with the multivalence of gay male identity in our fraught national moment.
May 2, 2024
Office Hours Poetry & BK Exquisites collaborative reading at Polly's Cafe in Brooklyn
February 21, 2024
OUTspoken reading series, presented by The Publishing Triangle
@ the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division
Felice Picano, Carol Rosenfeld, Jerome Ellison Murphy, Kate Rounds, Kathi Wolfe, Lisa Gitlin, and Daniel Meltz
June 24, 2023
Public Pride Month reading at The Jefferson Market Library, 425 Avenue of the Americas
Don Yorty * James Pergola * Jerome Ellison Murphy * David Groff *. Octavio R. Gonzalez * Dave King * Ron Drummond * Guillermo Filice Castro * Corey Boykins * Antonio Addessi * Scott Hightower
June 22, 2023
Five Poets: Julia Guez, Jerome Murphy, Yuxi Lin, John James, Ryan Cook
6:30PM @ Powerhouse Arena Books, 28 Adams St
June 21, 2023
OUTspoken Pride Reading Series, featuring Jameson Currier, Nina Kennedy, Jerome Ellison Murphy, Eric Orner, Carol Rosenfeld, William Christy Smith, and Anne Shade
7:00 PM @ The Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street
June 19, 2022
Juneteeth at Gavagai. This installment of the performance series curated by poet Danielle Blau features poets Jerome Ellison Murphy and Zora Satchell, and standup comedians Shalewa Sharpe, Kristin Manna, and Pranav Behari. With guest co-host comedian Maria Wojciechoswki & guest house band Flunt! 7:30PM @ Footlight Underground
March 30, 2023
Songs of Earth: Poetry and Music with Yusef Komunyakaa and Paul Muldoon
Presented by NYU Creative Writing and curated by Jerome Ellison Murphy
Award-winning poets Yusef Komunyakaa and Paul Muldoon will read their work with musical accompaniment by pianist Noriko Kamo, jazz singer Pamela Knowles, and guitarist David Mansfield. Jerome Murphy will moderate a conversation and Q&A following the performances.
Rosenthal Pavilion at NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South
May 25, 2022
Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath launch and panel discussion, with presentations by Marsha Bryant, Bethany Hicok, Jerome Ellison Murphy, Karen V. Kukil and Carrie Smith
March 9, 2022
6– 8PM Jerome Ellison Murphy, Lonely Christopher, & Dazié Grego-Sykes @ the Bureau by Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. Poetry reading.
November 24, 2020
Cave Canem Presents Writers Worktable: Criticism in Focus with Jerome Ellison Murphy and Anthony Reed. Two critics discuss the role of criticism, contextualizing poetry, and the state and future of Black poetry
June 25, 2020
Cobra Milk Reading Series
curated by Erin Mizrahi and Johnny Rezvani
Benefiting Black Trans Protestors Emergency Fund
Feb 27 2020
The Yale Review Presents: Shane Mccrae, Jerome Ellison Murphy, And Monica Youn. Panel Event discussing work included in Spring 2020 Yale Review, including “Conspicuous Erudition: The New Black Poetry.”
November 2019
Sunday, November 10, 2019 at 4 PM – 5:30 PM Four Way Books & Friends Poetry Reading
Join us for a fabulous fall afternoon/evening of poetry featuring readings by Four Way Books authors Julia Guez (In an Invisible Glass Case Which Is Also a Frame), Sam Ross (Company) and friends Jerome Murphy, Eva Saavedra, and Jimin Seo.
Weds, Nov 6, 2019 @ 7 PM – 8:30 PM JEM reading at KGB Bar & Lit Mag 85 E 4th St, New York, New York 10003
This is Gender Reveal Party's first reading featuring trans and queer poets: Catherine Chen, Benny Sisson, Jerome Ellison Murphy, Jen Levitt, Sarah Sala, and Lauren Clark
October 2019
Sat, Oct 12, 3pm: JEM on a panel with Trebor Healey, Felice Picano and Perry Brass at the Rainbow Book Fair, Room 302 in LGBT Center, 208 W 13th St
September 2019
Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 7 PM – 8:30 PM Red Hen Press at BGSQD with special guests
Join fabulous Red Hen authors David Brendan Hopes, Jason Schneiderman, and Chloe Schwenke, alongside special guests Minnie-Bruce Pratt and Jerome Murphy, as they read their most recent work and celebrate queer literature!
May 2019
Thursday May 2, 2019 7-9pm NYU Creative Writing Program: CRASHING CATHEDRALS: EDMUND WHITE BY THE BOOK, featuring Michael Carroll, Sheila Kohler, Jerome Ellison Murphy, Angelo Nikolopoulos, Colm Tóibín, and Edmund White Introduced by anthology editor Tom Cardamone
July 2018
- Friday, July 13, 2018 at 7:00PM: Poetry/Cabaret: "LUCKY"
The Green Room, 42 570 Tenth Ave : featuring Featuring: Cinderella Mayo, David Perez, Hector Lionel, Jerome Ellison Murphy, Jill Pangallo, Julia Guez, Kyle Dacuyan, Max Steele
June 2018
- Saturday June 2nd, 7pm at Mom's Gallery on Morton St, West Village
- Wednesday, June 6th, 7pm at McNally Jackson in Williamsburg
- Friday June 8th at Bessie's Brooklyn
- Friday June 29th: Books are Magic on Smith St. in Boerum Hill / Gowanus
PAST EVENTS
9/25/16 Pigeon Pages at PowerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, NYC
4/30/16 Birthday Suit Reading at the Bureau of General Services Queer Division (BGSQD)
3/10/16, Franklin Electric Reading Series at Work Heights 650 Franklin Ave
1/31/16 The Eagle and the Wren Reading Series at BookCourt
4/19/13 Readings In Queer And Trans History at Bureau of General Services Queer Division (BGSQD)
6/6/12 Divining Divas at The White Swallow reading series, Cornelia Street Café