Upcoming Appearances

Interview in Sapling #662 (Black Lawrence Press)

Poem in Salt (# 3)

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Previous Appearances

August 19, 2021 at 7:00 P.M.—The Canyon Poets feature Bonnie in an online reading. Here's a link to the Facebook event page: https://fb.me/e/1CBYo3Q3m

Poem in The Southern Review, Autumn 2018.

May 11, 2018An Audio Interview of Bonnie for the "New Letters on the Air" feature of New Letters & BkMk Press online

Book Review: The Red Hijab in Tab: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics. Volume 6. Issue 2. March 2018.

— Bonnie quoted on Oprah.com

November 17, 2017Reading at The Writers Place in Kansas City, MO.

November 15, 2017 — Reading at BookMarx books in Springfield, MO

November 14, 2017 — Article by Anne Kniggendorf: "Having Witnessed The Middle East's 'Terrible Beauty,' A Poet Brings 'Clearer Sight' To Kansas City"

— Review of The Red Hijab in Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose, Issue 21.

— Review of The Red Hijab in Galatea Resurrects #27 (A Poetry Engagement).

— June 8, 2017 — Reading at the EP Foster Library in Ventura, California


— April 22, 2017 — Reading

   At Beyond Baroque in Venice Beach, California

— March 30, 2017 — Reading
   At the Stay Gallery in Downey, California

Review of The Red Hijab in The Line Break, a poetry and wine blog.

Review of The Red Hijab in Galatea Resurrects #27 (December 10, 2016).

Review of The Red Hijab featured on Booklist Online.

Four Poems in New Letters Magazine, Volume 83 No. 1 (Fall 2016).

Poem, "The Red Hijab," featured in Poetry Daily.

Review of The Red Hijab in The Rumpus.

The Red Hijab, winner of the 2015 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, published by BkMk Press (November 15, 2016).

Poems in New Letters, The Southern Review (autumn, 2016), Consequence Magazine (spring, 2016), Mirimar #6, The Lampeter Review # 12

Poems in Miramar, The Southern Review and But Who's Counting, an anthology of poetry.

— October 16, 2014 — Reading
   At the Stay Gallery, in Downey, California

November 2, 2013 — Reading
   At Beyond Baroque, in Venice Beach (Check back for exact time.)

November 6, 2013 — 7:00 p.m. — Reading and Book Signing
   At Gatsby's Books, in Long Beach

June 3, 2012 — 7:30 p.m. — Reading and Book Signing
   Rhapsodomancy Reading Series at the Good Luck Bar in Hollywood, California

February 8, 2012 — 4:00 p.m. — Reading and Book Signing
   During Writers Week at University of California, Riverside

May 29, 2011 — 11:00 a.m. — Reading and Book Signing
   at World Beat Fitness Center & Cafe in Janabiya, Bahrain

— April 28, 2011 –11:00 a.m. – Reading and Book Signing
   At a day of poetry: Mending the World: Poetry, Activism and Healing
   from 11:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m. at California State University, Fullerton
   800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton, Ca.    (maps and directions)
   Free, Open to the Public




April 22, 2017 at Beyond Baroque in Venice Beach, California



September 3, 2016 — A reading in Fallbrook, California


February 5, 2011— Bonnie signing copies of In the Kingdom of the Sons at The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Annual conference and Bookfair in Washington D.C.



Bonnie and her parents at the AWP Conference.


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