Launch of Poet Amanda Shaw’s debut poetry collection, It Will Have Been So Beautiful at The Writer’s Center – April 26, 2024 from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM at 4508 Walsh St, Bethesda, MD 20815
Shaw’s work will be featured, and three fellow poets — Susan, Sunu Chandy, and Rekha Mehra, will also read. All four poets participated in an intensive Writer’s Center workshop in 2023, designed and taught by poet Sandra Beasley, on how to prepare and submit a full-length poetry manuscript. Beasley, a faculty member at American University, will attend, and this event will also honor her superb teaching. Refreshments will be provided. 

To attend, please go to this link and register in advance: https://writer.org/event/amanda-shaw/

 Seating will be limited.

Hear Susan read her poems on Grace Cavalieri’s podcast!
https://www.gracecavalieri.com/images/Susan%20Okie%20podcast.mp3

Reading at Words Out Loud Poetry Series – March 1, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Susan will be reading with fellow Maryland poet Don Illich in the Words Out Loud poetry series, starting at 7:30 pm.

Reading at Scuppernong Books with Katie Bowler Young – February 9, 2024 at 6:00 PM
304 S Elm St, Greensboro, NC 27401
Susan and fellow poet Katie Bowler Young will read from their work and take questions from the audience. Katie is the author of two books of poetry, Through Water With Ease and State Street, as well as a biography of sculptor Enrique Elférez.

16th Annual Delmarva Review reading at The Writer’s Center – January 13, 2024 from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
4508 Walsh St, Bethesda, MD 20815
Susan Okie is one of multiple poets and writers reading work of theirs that appears in the newest issue of the Delmarva Review, Volume 16, 2023. 

Reading of “Woman at the Crossing” with poet Grace Cavalieri at the Cafe Muse Poetry Series – January 8, 2024 at 7:00 PM
The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD OR Virtual
Check out the link below for more details. You’re encouraged to register early to receive the Zoom link, if you plan to attend the reading online!
https://sites.google.com/view/cafe-muse-events/home
This event is supported in part by Poets & Writers.

Reading at UC Health at University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Center – November 13th at 12:00PM
University of Colorado-Center for Bioethics & Humanities, Fulginiti Pavilion for Bioethics and Humanities – Mailstop B137
13080 E. 19th Avenue
Aurora, CO  80045

View a recording of the reading here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxQTU95Dx8Q

Reading at Unnameable Books – October 21 at 5:00PM
615 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238

An outdoor neighborhood poetry reading in Oakland, California!  Susan will read from Woman at the Crossing, and will be joined by West coast poets Robert Thomas, Cathy Nelson, Regan Huff, and Catharine Clark Sayles. Robert, Cathy and Catharine have new or recent collections out – October 7 at 2:00PM
Oakland, Ca., 2874 Morgan Avenue