This is a poetry timeline of featured performances and key milestones. For a full list visit the gig archive. I also hosted 19 instances of Poetry in Notion from June 2017 through September 2019, and have judged the Solano Teen Writing Contest’s poetry category since 2018. Awards, press, and publications are listed on other pages of this website. I’m slowly adding video links if they exist.
Pre-Laureateship
- December 6th, 2014 debut performance at Rodef Sholom Beit Cafe
- July 28th, 2015 featured at Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show at Fairfax, CA Library
- September 25, 2015 guest host at Poetry by the Bay
- November 12th, 2015 read “Prayer for the Shomrim” to Rodef Sholom Board of Directors
- December 5th, 2015 performed at Rodef Sholom Beit Cafe
- January 5, 2016 composed an occasional poem and performed it for Fresh Air Vallejo protest at Vallejo City Hall
- March 12, 2016 composed an occasional poem and performed it for Vallejo Man March at Marina Vista Memorial Park
- August 25th, 2016 featured at Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show at Falkirk Cultural Center in San Rafael, CA
- September 29th, 2016 performed at Marin Poetry Center Member New Book Event at Falkirk Cultural Center in San Rafael, CA
- November 1, 2016 featured at Benicia First Tuesday Poets
- January 15th, 2017 performed for Poets Protest Against Trump at Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, CA
- February 11, 2017 judged Poetry Out Loud competition in Fairfield, CA
- May 3, 2017: Interviewed on Radio for the World Duck Soup Podcast while at Subtext.
Laureateship
- July 28, 2017 officially announced as Vallejo’s second poet laureate and performed at Genea Brice End of Term Celebration in McCune Room
- August 13, 2017 composed an occasional poem and performed for Vallejo Solidarity with Charlottesville in MLK Unity Plaza [Video]
- September 10, 2017 composed an occasional poem and performed for Unity Day at Vallejo City Park [Video]
- September 21, 2017 performed for Vallejo Peace Project International Peace Day at Peace Pole by Panama Red on Vallejo Waterfront [Video]
- October 10, 2017 officially proclaimed Vallejo Poet Laureate at City Hall [Video]
- October 2, 2017 composed an occasional poem and performed for Resilient by Design at Artiszen
- November 1, 2017 composed an occasional poem and performed for Queer Words Vallejo
- December 15, 2017: Read “Watch this Space” for Poetry Superhighway’s A Poet’s Siddur book launch on BlogTalkRadio.
2018
- February 5, 2018 judged Solano County Poetry Out Loud at JFK Library
- March 24, 2018 Gave a presentation for AAUW’s Voices of Change: Women Poets who have made a Difference, Benicia Library
- April 29, 2018 Benicia Light & Shadow Anthology Launch at Benicia Library
- April 14th, 2018 featured, hosted, and organized National Poetry Month at JFK Library, Vallejo
- April 25th, 2018, featured at Why Poetry Matters: Solano County Library Foundation Literacy Programs: Solano County Events Center, Fairfield, CA
- May 3, 2018 composed an occasional poem and performed for Participatory Budgeting Results Party at the Joseph Room, JFK Library
- May 19, 2018 performed at Vallejo Peace Rally for Justice, Vallejo City Hall Steps
- June 30, 2018 composed an occasional poem and performed for Families Belong Together Rally at Unity Plaza
- July 15th, 2018 organized, hosted, and featured at Poetry in Notion at the McCune.
- August 9, 2018 featured at Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show at Novato Library in Novato, CA
- August 2, 2018 Interviewed and featured with Tom Stanton on Art Beat on OZCAT KZCT 89.5 FM
- September 9, 2018 organized and performed an occasional poem Vallejo Poetry Showcase at Unity Day
- September 20, 2018 Marin Poetry Center anthology reading at Falkirk, San Rafael
- October 6, 2018 attended and performed at Gathering of California’s Poets Laureate, Tujunga, CA [Video]
- October 10, 2018 KPFA interview with Nina Serrano aired [Video]
- December 16, 2018 featured at Voices of the Season: Holiday Prose & Poetry at the McCune
2019
- January 19, 2019 Gave a poetic call and response invocation at Women’s March Vallejo, Women Building Vallejo Summit at Decades
- February 10, 2019 featured at Gears Turning: Adobe Books in San Francisco, CA
- February 13, 2019 judged Solano County Poetry Out Loud at Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum
- February 24, 2019 featured at Fish Bowl Poetry at Old Capital Books in Monterey, CA
- March 6, 2019 featured at Congregation Beth Shalom in Napa, CA
- March 13, 2019 Verses Voices & Visions of Vallejo at JFK Library
- April 6, 2019 featured, hosted, and organized National Poetry Month at JFK Library, Vallejo
- April 20, 2019, performed live on KPFA for Poetry Month on BAJABA Jazzline
- April 25, 2019 performed at Vallejo Peace Project’s Speak Up for Peace
- April 27, 2019 appeared at Bookshop Benicia’s Independent Bookstore Day event
- May 15, 2019 featured reading for children at Grattan Elementary in San Francisco, CA
- July 1, 2019 featured at Poetry Express: Berkeley, CA,
- June 9, 2019 Gave a presentation about the work and future of poetry at Poets Speak Forum at San Mateo County Fair
- June 24, 2019 featured at Bay Area Generations: Show #70, Oakland, Joyce Gordon Gallery
- June 29, 2019 featured act at Solano County Fair
- June 29, 2019 judged talent competition at Solano County Fair
- July 25, 2019 featured at Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show at Civic Center Library in San Rafael, CA
- July 7, 2019 performed at Alameda Art Fair
- August 25, 2019 featured at Live Poets Society: Orinda Books, Orinda, CA [Video]
- August 25, 2019 featured for Poets Laureate on Social Justice Tour at Revolution Books in Berkeley [Video]
- September 18, 2019 featured for Poets Laureate on Social Justice Tour at Benicia Public Library
- September 21, 2019 attended and performed at Gathering of Bay Area Poets Laureate in Millbrae [Video]
- September 27, 2018 composed an occasional poem and performed for Vallejo SOUP at Vallejo People’s Garden
- October 3, 2019 featured for Poets Laureate on Social Justice Tour at Pegasus Books in Berkeley
- October 26, 2019 judged Vallejo Poetry Slam
- November 5, 2019 featured at Benicia First Tuesday Poets
- November 7, 2019 Interviewed on Art Beat on OZCAT KZCT 89.5 FM
- November 8, 2019 featured for Poets Laureate on Social Justice Tour at Napa Bookmine
- November 10, 2019 featured for Poets Laureate on Social Justice Tour at Bird & Beckett Books in San Francisco
- November 17, 2019 featured for Poets Laureate on Social Justice Tour at Book Passage in Corte Madera [Video]
- December 9, 2019 featured for Poets Laureate on Social Justice Tour at JFK Library [Video]
- December 25, 2019 read Hanukkah poetry at Oy to the World [Video]
- January 12, 2020 featured at Outgoing Poet Laureate celebration at JFK Library
- January 28, 2020 received outgoing poet laureate proclamation [Video]
Post-Laureateship
- April 5, 2020, performed at Rodef Sholom’s Virtual Beit Cafe
- May 17, 2020, performed at Rodef Sholom’s Virtual Beit Cafe
- June 7, 2020, performed at Rodef Sholom’s Virtual Beit Cafe
- June 19, 2020 featured act at Solano Virtual Fair [Video]
- August 2, 2020, performed at Rodef Sholom’s Beit Cafe [Video]
- October 25, 2020 Colossus: Home anthology reading via Zoom
- November 21, 2020 – Colossus: Home anthology reading via Zoom
- November 5, 2020 Interviewed on Art Beat on OZCAT KZCT 89.5 FM
- December 3, 2020 Interviewed on Art Beat on OZCAT KZCT 89.5 FM
2021
- January 5, 2021 KPFA Cover to Cover with Nina and Jack
- February 28, 2021 performed at Rodef Sholom’s Virtual Beit Cafe
- Poetry aired on February 19 & 20, 2021 on UrbanEx Radio online
- March 6, 2021 – Insurrection Gnashing Teeth Publishing anthology reading via Zoom
- April 6, 2021 KPFA Cover to Cover with Nina and Jack
- April 11, 2021 – Poetry Flash: Colossus: Home anthology reading via Zoom
- May 20, 2021 featured performer at Pt Arena Third Thursday Poetry (via Zoom)
- June 18, 2021 featured act at Solano Virtual Fair [Video]
- August 28, 2021 read a poem at Rodef Sholom Selichot services (via zoom)
- September 5, 2021 featured at Alibi Bookshop [Video]
- April 8, 2021, composed an occasional poem and performed for Yom Hashoah: Fairfield, CA
- December 31, 2021, composed an occasional poem and performed for Shabanza! Shabbat, Kwanzaa, & New Years: Vallejo Hub [Video]
2022
- January 13, 2022 – Poets’ Tribute to Jack Hirschman aired on KZCT including the poem “Red Poet”
- February 26, 2022 – Reimagine America anthology reading at Culver City Book Festival at Wende Museum of the Cold War [Video]
- March 31, 2022, taught teens about writing for causes and growth via Zoom for Art is Power: Solano County Office of Education
- Poets’ Tribute to Jack Hirschman aired April 5, 2022 on KPFA
- Literary Dialogues with Nina Serrano: Interview aired on April 14 & June 9, 2022 on KZCT
- April 14, 2022 featured for Poem Jam with Kim Shuck: Banned Books (via Zoom.)
- April 16, 2022 featured for Poetry Month at JFK Library in Joseph Room:
- May 1, 2022 – International Workers Day 2022, Moonstone Press, anthology reading Philadelphia, PA via Zoom.
- May 8, 2022: Bay Area Book Festival, Berkeley BART Plaza. [Video]
- May 14, 2022 composed an occasional poem and performed for RiseUp4AbortionRights at 24th & Mission in San Francisco [Video]
- May 28, 2022 Revolution Books Fundraiser at Willard Park in Berkeley
- Beat Cafe at Beat Poetry Festival: June 2, 2022, Empress Lounge
- Literary Dialogues with Nina Serrano: Interview aired on June 7 & 14, 2022 on KPFA
- June 17, 2022 featured act at Solano County Fair
- The Bloom podcast with Georgina Marie – released June 30, 2022.
- July 14, 2022 – Storm Warning, Revolutionary Poets Brigade anthology reading at San Francisco Public Library
- July 16, 2022 – Labor Fest – Revolutionary Poets Brigade via Zoom
- LaborFest Poetry with the Revolutionary Poets Brigade aired on Work Week Radio with Steve Zeltzer on KPOO 89.5FM on July 28, 2022
- August 7, 2022 – Hiroshima Day, Moonstone Press, Philadelphia, PA via Zoom.
- KALW’s Bay Poets aired “Columbia River Gorgeous” on August 24, 2022
- August 28, 2022 – Yearning to Breathe Free via Zoom.
- September 3, 2022 – 100,000 Poets for Change Revolutionary Poets Brigade via Zoom
- September 10, 2022 – When There Are Nine This House of Books Billings, MT via Zoom.
- September 22, 2022 – Storm Warning, Revolutionary Poets Brigade anthology reading at Beat Museum, San Francisco
- September 24, 2022 – Storm Warning, Revolutionary Poets Brigade anthology reading via Zoom
- September 24, 2022 – composed an occasional poem and performed for Black Lives Matter mural block party, Vallejo city hall
- October 8, 2022 – composed an occasional poem and performed for Women’s Wave at SF Union Square [Video]
- October 27, 2022 featured for Hummingword (via Zoom)
- December 17, 2022 – Nooks & Crannies, Benicia Literary Arts, anthology reading Estey Realty
- December 2, 2022 read a poem at Rodef Sholom First Friday Shabbat
2023
- February 10th, 2023 composed an occasional poem and performed for Flyway Festival, Mare Island
- February 11, 2023 – composed an occasional poem and performed for Ticket to Mars, protest at San Francisco Twitter HQ
- March 8, 2023 – composed an occasional poem and performed for International Women’s Day at Revolution Books
- March 14, 2023 – Vallejo City Council named D.L. Lang among honorees for Women’s History Month
- March 23, 2023 – attended Tulsa Curbside Haiku contest event at Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa
- April 1, 2023 – featured for A Pageantry of Poetry at Cordelia Library
- April 4, 2023 – featured for Benicia First Tuesday Poets via zoom
- April 11, 2023 – featured performer at Vallejo Poetry Festival – Alibi Bookshop
- April 26, 2023 – featured for Revolutionary Poets Brigade at North Beach Library
- KALW’s Crosscurrents aired “Columbia River Gorgeous” on May 17, 2023
- July 15, 2023 – The Working Man’s Hand Woody Guthrie Poets, Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, The History Center, Okemah, Oklahoma
- July 27, 2023 – Laborfest at the Tenderloin Museum
- July 30, 2023 – Remembering Woody Guthrie, Moonstone, anthology reading via Zoom
- September 19, 2023 – composed an occasional poem and performed for Mahsa Amini Day – Revolution Books, Berkeley
- September 23, 2023 – Sparring Artists anthology reading at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA [Video]
- September 24, 2023 – I Never Could Talk to You anthology reading at Venice Beach LA Poetry Beach Festival [Video]
- September 30, 2023 – 100,000 Poets for Change Revolutionary Poets Brigade via Zoom
- October 1, 2023 – Remembering Pablo Neruda, Moonstone, anthology reading via Zoom
- October 14, 2023 – Healing a Fractured World, Revolutionary Poets Brigade anthology reading via Zoom
- November 11, 2023 – R/Evolution: A Dialogue of Visionaries event by World Poetry Movement, 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Poets of the Planet, and League of Revolutionaries via Zoom
- November 2023 – Served on Vallejo Poet Laureate selection committee
- December 8, 2023 – Listed in Mystic Boxing Commissions Sparring Artists Hall of Fame
- December 9, 2023 – American Graveyard anthology reading via Zoom
2024
- January 4, 2024 – featuring for 1428 Poets in the Haight via Zoom
- February 24, 2024 – Performed at the Starry Plough to support Toomaj
- March 3, 2024 – featured at The Jewish People exhibit at the Vallejo Museum
- March 12, 2023 – Vallejo City Council named D.L. Lang among honorees for Women’s History Month
- March 30, 2024 – featured at Ink and Inspiration in Enid, Oklahoma
- April 6, 2024 – Scissortail Creative Writing Festival in Ada, OK
- June 6, 2024 – Interviewed on OZCAT radio
- June 14, 2024 – Featured at Solano County Fair
- July 13, 2024 – Performed with Woody Guthrie Poets at WoodyFest in Okemah
- August 17, 2024 – Featured at 3rd Saturday Poetry in Chinatown at Clarion in San Francisco
- August 18, 2024 – Performed for Congregation B’nai Israel’s joining Reconstructionist Judaism
- August 25, 2024 – Hosted 12 Rounds at Mare Island Arts Studio
- September 14, 2024 – Featured at Visions of the Wild at Temple Art Lofts
- September 14, 2024 – Revolutionary Poets Brigade For All anthology launch at Beat Museum