Recent and Upcoming Readings/Signings
March 12, 2012, 11:30 a.m., Keynote Address, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York.
November 3, 2011, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
September 13, 2011, 7:00 p.m., The Twig Bookstore, San Antonio, with Natalia Treviño
May 4, 2011, 7:00 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Ingram, San Antonio, Texas
April 16, 2011, 9:30 a.m., Featured Reading, 9:30 a.m., The Poet on Craft: Prose Poems, 3:00 p.m., Poetry at Round Top, Round Top, Texas
April 7, 2011, 6:30 p.m., Bihl Haus Arts, San Antonio, Texas
April 1, 2011, 5:45 p.m., Abydos Conference, San Antonio, Texas
Poetry Readings at Colleges and Universities
Wendy has given readings of her poetry at colleges and universities across the United States, including University of Wisconsin, Madison, California Polytechnic State University, Claremont College, Marlboro College, Oakland University, Southwest Missouri State University, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, SUNY Binghamton, University of California at Davis, University of Maryland, and University of Scranton. Besides giving readings in San Antonio, at Trinity University, Our Lady of the Lake University, St. Mary’s University (and of course at UTSA), she has also read her poems at other educational institutions in Texas, including Abiline Christian University, Amarillo College, Austin Community College, Montgomery College, Southern Methodist University, Sul Ross State University, Texas Tech University, and University of St. Thomas.
Beyond the United States, she has given readings in Bulgaria at the American Cultural Center in Sofia, The Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, University of Veliko Turnovo, and at American University of Bulgaria. In India, she has read her poems at the American Studies Research Center in Hyderabad, at the University of Hyderabad, at Kurukshetra University, and at Panjab University in Chandigarh.
Poetry Readings at Bookstores and Literary/Arts Centers
In addition to giving readings at various Barnes and Nobles in the U.S., Wendy has also read at Book Woman in Austin; Boswell’s Books in Shelburn Falls, Massachussetts; Cody’s in Berkeley; Quackenbush in Austin; and Shakespeare Books in Dallas. She has given readings at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin and The Writer’s Garret in Dallas
In San Antonio she has also read at Gemini Ink, the San Antonio Library, The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, and San Antonio Museum of Art. The Twig Book Shop has been the site of almost all her book launches.
Poetry Readings at Conferences and Festivals
Conferences and literary festivals where Wendy has given readings include the American Literature Symposium on Women Writers, Angelo State University Writers Conference, Associate Colleges of the South Women’s Studies Conference, College English Association, Emily Dickinson International Society, The Festival Institute at Round Top, MELUS, National Women’s Studies Association Conference, New Jersey Writing Project in Texas Annual Conference, Poetry Society of Texas and University of Texas of the Permian Basin Poetry Festival, San Antonio InterAmerican Book Fair, Society for the Study of American Women Writers International Conference, South Central Modern Language Association Conference, National Federation of State Poetry Societies Convention, University of North Texas Literary Festival, Texas Academy of Internal Medicine Annual Conference, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Annual Conference, Texas Book Festival, and the Texas Small Press Conference and Book Fair.
Papers and Lectures
Wendy has presented papers and given talks and lectures at such conferences as the American Literature Association, AWP, International Conference of the Emily Dickinson International Society, International Conference on Canadian Studies (at Pondicherry University, India), International Conference on Rabindranath Tagore (at the University of Connecticut, Storrs), International Convention of Asia Scholars (Singapore), The Israel Association of American Studies International Conference, (Tel Aviv, Israel), Kliment Ohridski University (Sofia, Bulgaria), MELUS, MLA, and the South Asia Language Analysis Roundtable (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India).