Reading and Workshop
Saturday, March 29, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Glendale Central Library - Auditorium
222 E. Harvard Street
Glendale, CA 91205
Open to the public, with Glendale Poet Laureate Raffi Joe Wartanian
Registration encouraged but not required. Register here.

Lee will read with Rachel Robbins for the Traveling Mollys Virtual Reading Series. An open mic will follow the feature.
5:00 - 7:00 pm PT, 7:00 - 9:00 pm CT.

You can watch the livestream on YouTube here.

Lee will read with Blas Falconer and Maw Shein Win to celebrate the launch of Win’s new book, Percussing the Thinking Jar.

Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore, San Francisco.

Lee will read with Kim McMillon in Merced. Details forthcoming.

Lee will read and give a workshop for the Nipomo Coastal Dunes Writing Club. Details forthcoming.

Lee will read for the Briar Haus Writes online poetry reading series. Link forthcoming.

Lee will read with State Youth Poet Laureate Chloe Chou at the City Council Chambers, Library
Parks and Rec Center, 901 Civic Campus Way, South SF

Lee will visit the Association of Korean Adoptees, San Francisco, for a Member Spotlight, private event.

Lee will read for the Traveling Mollys (online) poetry reading series. Link forthcoming.

Lee will give a reading and poetry workshop in Glendale, CA, hosted by Glendale Poet Laureate Raffi Joe Wartanian. Details forthcoming.

Lee will speak to Leadership Fresno about poetry, the arts, and the California Poet Laureateship. This is a private event.

Lee will read with David St. John, Allison Hedge Coke, and Sara Borjas in Venice, CA at Beyond Baroque, Wanda Coleman Theater, at the Southern California Poetry Festival. For details and more information: visit Beyond Baroque.

Lee will read from and sign copies of In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems and speak about his adoption from Korea as part of Bakersfield’s One Book Celebration of Nicole Chung’s All You Can Ever Know.

Beale Library, 701 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA. Free and open to the public.

Lee will give a talk at the STEAM Regional Youth Summit in Tulare County, on the theme Building Tomorrow Today. Details TBA.

Lee will read for the Solano County Authors Luncheon and Library Fundraiser along with stellar writers. Silent auction, mimosas, lunch. 11:00 am - 3:00 pm, The Clubhouse @ Rancho Solano. 3250 Rancho Solano Parkway, Fairfield, CA. More details here.

Lee will read and sign copies of his new book, In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems, in conversation with Kathleen Patterson of the Poetry Book Club. More details here.

Napa Bookmine
1625 2nd St.
Napa, CA

Lee will be reading from his new book, In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems, as part of Sacramento Poetry Week. Details TBA. Visit more details about the entire week’s events here.

Lee will read his original poem and speak at the 50th Anniversary of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center in Berkeley, CA.

Lee will deliver a talk at the Unitarian Universalist Church in San Luis Obispo. Details forthcoming.

Come help celebrate the publication of Lee’s fourth book of poems, In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems, available now from Gunpowder Press. Wine, tea, special guest readers to be announced, and books for sale. Tower Yoga - Lotus Room, 626 E. Olive Ave., Fresno. Free and open to the public.

Lee will read, have a Q and A, and sign copies of his new book at Reedley College in Reedley, California.
Location: RC Forum Hall

Lee will be the opening speaker for the celebration of California Writers Week at the Santa Maria Library, CA.

Join us for LitHop in Fresno, an all-day literary festival with free readings throughout the Tower District.

Lee will read at 3:00 pm with Juleen Eun Sun Johnson, Megan Espinor, and Susan Ito. Fresno Music Academy & Arts: Vista Theatre (1296 N. Wishon Ave). Four BIPOC artists and writers will read about loss from different prospectives. Some have been adopted, others have experienced a loss of a parent. We hope by sharing our stories that we help the next generation of Adopted-Americans and children who lose a parent to overcome their losses, not by setting them aside, but by examining the pieces that are left. We hope the reading helping others tell their own stories, share their memories, help cultivate community, and conversations around adoption and loss.

For more details and the full schedule of events at LitHop 2024, visit LitHop.

Lee will read at the 29th Annual Watershed Poetry Festival. The event runs from noon to 4:30 pm (Lee is scheduled to read at 3:35 pm). Martin Luther King, Jr. Civic Center Park, Berkeley. Readers include Jane Hirshfield, Genny Lim, Cintia Santana, James Cagney, Marsha de la O, Ellery Akers, and more.

Lee will speak on Asian American adoptee belonging and justice with adoption studies scholar Kim Park Nelson. Hosted by adoption studies scholar Kit Myers. 12:00 - 1:15 pm, Kolligian Library 209. UC Merced.

Lee will read with Lisa Lee Herrick, Maceo Montoya, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, soledad con carne, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Josiah Luis Alderete, Antonio Lopez, and more. Medicine for Nightmares, San Francisco.

Lee will read and be in conversation with Mojave Desert Poet Laureate Ruth Nolan, then sign books at Copper Mountain College in Joshua Tree, CA at 6:00 pm.