Recent Readings & Events
CALYX Live Reading
Featuring poets & prose writers from issue 35:1. I read my poem, “New Year’s Eve Fog. 6 am.”
Here’s a link to the event’s recording.
My Dead Aunt’s Books Reading Series
On Sunday, March 9th, 2025, I read with poet Jared Smith and novelist Phil Kurata.
ESWA Bay to Ocean Reading
Saturday, March 8, 2025, Catherine Carter, Jennifer Keith, and I read our prize-winning poems at the annual ESWA Bay to Ocean conference.
Arlington County Library Local Author Fair
On Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023, Arlington Public Library hosted its first Local Author Fair, & I was one of the 80 featured authors!
Poets included Arlington County’s current Poet Laureate, Courtney LeBlanc, & two previous Poets Laureate, Holly Karapetkova & Katherine E. Young. Joining them were Dan Brady, Katherine Gekker, Liz Milner, & Gary Shulman, MS. ED.
Glass Lyre Reading
Readers: Karen Neuberg, Katherine Gekker, Bill Yarrow, Christina Seymour, Michael Meyerhofer
October 9, 2021
Café Muse Reading, featuring Andrea Carter Brown and Katherine Gekker
September 13, 2021
Reading available on You Tube
Ekphrastic Poetry Contest Reading
Featuring Aimee Nezhukumatathil, with contest winner Maria Masington, and finalists Erica Abbott, Tara A. Elliott, and Katherine Gekker
February 11, 2021
Words Out Loud
A reading featuring Dale Brown and Katherine Gekker
October 2, 2020
The Inner Loop
Poetry reading with Tara Campbell, James Steck, and Katherine Gekker
September 15, 2020
Downtown Dover Words and Music
An Evening of Poetic Fusion
Katherine Gekker wrote poems while bluegrass fiddler Nate Grower played
September 4, 2020
Reston Used Books
Featuring poets Katherine Gekker, Miles David Moore, Rosalia Scalia, Sarah Snyder, and Sarah Ann Winn
August 30, 2020
Hosted by Katherine Young, with poets Aaron R., Katherine Gekker, Holly Karapetkova, Marty Sanchez-Lowery, Michael A. Schaffner
July 17, 2020
Eastern Shore Writers Association
Featuring poets Joan Cooper, Sharon Sheppard, and Katherine Gekker
May 28, 2020
An evening with local poets Courtney LeBlanc, Katherine Gekker, and Katherine Young
April 29, 2020
Evil Grin
Poets Katherine Gekker and Adam Lauver at At Ahh Coffee in Annapolis
January 5, 2020
DiVerse Gaithersburg
Poets Tanya Olson, Miles David Moore, Lydia Wei, and Katherine Gekker
November 10, 2019
Browseabout Books
Three Poets Read from Their New Collections:
Linda Blaskey, Katherine Gekker, and Ethan Joella
Rehoboth Beach, DE
November 6, 2019