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Performance
If I am given at least one month’s notice, I am available for featured performances lasting at minimum 20 minutes. If the event location requires me to leave Solano County, pay a toll or pay for parking, then a speaking honorarium is required. For economic reasons, I no longer participate in events where I drive for 50 miles only to be limited to reading one poem or features under 15 minutes. You can contact me at to see if I am available.
I am unwilling and unable to move furniture, assist in planning events, or bring food.
While I often donate my labor for political causes and charity benefits as a poet, I am unwilling to pay to perform.
Ideally, poets should be paid rather than profited from.
If my giving money to you is a mandatory requirement to participate in your event, then please look elsewhere, or don’t be offended when I say no.
I am not available for free consulting, free advice, or free editing work.
All the advice I could give you is already on the Vallejo Poetry Society website.
For every moment of my time and favor you ask of me, realize there are at least ten other people asking something else from me.
I prefer events that occur after 1 PM. My mornings are for self-care and writing.
Please check the readings page to make sure I don’t already have an event listed on my schedule that may conflict. If I already have an event that day, I am not available.