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2010
"Circle of Unity Performance" Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. March 13.
“Because When God is too Busy: Haiti, me and THE WORLD”
John Henrik Clarke Lecture Dedicated to Haiti. Hunter College. NYC. February 25.
Fundraiser for Haiti Soleil & INURED February 21.
Fundraiser for Be Present & INURED. February 18.
Fundraiser. Wesleyan Chapel. Middletown, CT. February 4.
"Breath for Breath, Line for Line, Poets for Poets" Haitian Poets Unite for Centre D'Art benefit. Brecht Forum. NYC. January 29.
2009
“Gina Rants: On Writing or Performing Rage” Performance of “A Poem About Why I Can’t Wait” printed by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. Center for African American Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT. April 23.
“Out of the Abyss.” Diasporic Haitian Poets Muse on Hunger, Nation. Organizer and Performer with six other poets. LaMaMa. NYC. October 2.
“Because When God is too Busy: Haiti, me and THE WORLD”
Yale University, African-American Studies Department. New Haven, CT. November.
Herman C Hudson Symposium Graduate Student Conference. Neal Marshall Black Culture Center. University of Indiana, Bloomington IN. April 3.
Merging Art and Culture; A Symposium in honor of Katherine Dunham. Trinity College, Hartford, CT. March 28
Visiting Artist Performance at Wesley Center. University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. March 9.
LaMaMa, NYC, January 14. (review)
2008
“Because When God is too Busy: Haiti, me and THE WORLD”
Students Of Caribbean Ancestry (SOCA) & In Their Own Words event, Oberlin College, Ohio, Dec 5.
Brecht Forum, NYC, November 16.
“Loving Haiti, Loving Vodou"
Latin American Studies C, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 27.
Bluestockings Bookstore, NYC, October 30.
“Skin Castles”
Spoken word performance with Dancer Nicole Stanton. Wesleyan University, April 25, 26.
2007
"Loving Haiti, Loving Vodou: A Self in Progress"
Green Street Art Center, Middletown CT, February 1.
"Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti, Me and the World."
Center Stage Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA, August 11. (review)
Lyric Stage Theatre, Boston, MA, April 1.
2006
"Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti, Me and the World."
Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY, August 12.
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, April 26.
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, April 9.
Connecticut State University, New London, CT. April 6.
2005
"Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti, Me and the World."
National Council for Research on Women Annual Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, June 6.
"Rage, Maneuvers and Positions: Black Feminist Echoes"
Sara Doyle Women's Center and Mellon Foundation Program, Brown University, Providence, RI, March 15.
2004
"Diasporic Poetries."
Invited performance to close The Black Atlantic project at the House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany, November 15.
"Concepts of Home"
Reading at Centre for Caribbean Thought Conference in honor of Stuart Hall. University of the West Indies, Kingston, Mona, Jamaica, June 19.
"I Came of Age Colonized & Now I'm Feeling all this Rage"
Department of Anthropology and African American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL April 4.
2002
"Going Home Again and Again."
African Studies Program Conference, Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT November.
"I Came of Age (Excerpts)"
Festival of Caribbean Literature, Hartford Public Library, Hartford, Connecticut, September 21.
"Concepts of Home"
Multicultural Center, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, May 17.
2000
"I Came of Age (Excerpts)."
PRISM Conference, Emerson College, Boston, MA February 26.