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  • Featured Reader at the Inter/Act Spoken Word
    Featured Reader at the Inter/Act Spoken Word
    Tue, Sep 16
    Santa Cruz
    Sep 16, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
    Santa Cruz, 815 Almar Ave #9, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA
    Inter|Act Spoken Word Open Mic at Satori Arts. FREE community poetry jam with featured poet Dion O'Reilly
  • Silence Will Not Protect Us! Poetry Reading
    Silence Will Not Protect Us! Poetry Reading
    Thu, Dec 04
    Santa Cruz
    Dec 04, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
    Santa Cruz, 612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA
    A Benefit for the Santa Cruz Health Centers, Ellen Bass will headline a reading of Santa Cruz and Monterey poets from the anthology WOMEN IN A GOLDEN STATE.
  • Poetry Reading and Launch Party
    Poetry Reading and Launch Party
    Tue, Jul 29
    Santa Cruz
    Jul 29, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
    Santa Cruz, 7 Squid Row, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA
    Join Santa Cruz Poet Laureate, Nancy Miller Gomez, Leigh Sugar and Dion O'Reilly in celebrating the debut of Leigh Sugar's poetry collection, FREELAND (Alice James Books).
  • Poetry Reading at the Bainbridge Library
    Poetry Reading at the Bainbridge Library
    Thu, Jul 17
    Bainbridge Island
    Jul 17, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
    Bainbridge Island, 1270 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110, USA
    Join Kami Westhoff and me, winners of the Floating Bridge Chapbook Competition for Washington Poets, as we read from our new books.
  • Last Tuesdays with Sandy and Thomas for Olympia Poetry Network
    Last Tuesdays with Sandy and Thomas for Olympia Poetry Network
    Wed, Jun 25
    Olympic Poetry Netwok Zoom Room
    Jun 25, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
    Olympic Poetry Netwok Zoom Room
    I'll be reading poems! New ones, old ones, mainly ones from my new book Limerence.
  • Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest Awards Reading
    Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest Awards Reading
    Thu, May 29
    Bellingham
    May 29, 2025, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Bellingham, 355 Harris Ave, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA
    Winners of the Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest read their poetry.
  • Satellite of Love Poetry Reading Series
    Satellite of Love Poetry Reading Series
    Sun, May 18
    Satellite of Love in Slow Town
    May 18, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
    Satellite of Love in Slow Town, 1335 Walker St, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401, USA
    Featured readers will be Dion O'Reilly and Kathryn DeLancellotti
  • Readings at the Meeting House
    Readings at the Meeting House
    Thu, May 15
    Port Townsend
    May 15, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
    Port Townsend, 1841 Sheridan St, Port Townsend, WA 98368, USA
    Bellingham poet, Dion O'Reilly, reads from her new poetry collection just out from Floating Bridge Press's John Pierce Chapbook Competition
  • Village Books Reading Series
    Village Books Reading Series
    Tue, May 06
    Bellingham
    May 06, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
    Bellingham, 1200 11th St, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA
    Join us in the Readings Gallery for an evening of poetry with Bellingham poets Kami Westhoff and Dion O'Reilly, winner and finalist of the Floating Bridge Poetry Prize.
  • Everett Poetry Night
    Everett Poetry Night
    Mon, Apr 28
    Sister's Restaurant
    Apr 28, 2025, 5:00 AM – 6:30 AM
    Sister's Restaurant, 2804 Grand Ave, Everett, WA 98201, USA
    Come hear me read at the Everett Poetry Night - Spoken Word Since 2006. Poetry open mic + featured poet (me).
  • Winter in America (Again
    Winter in America (Again
    Tue, Apr 15
    Santa Cruz
    Apr 15, 2025, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Santa Cruz, 815 Almar Ave unit 9, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA
    At Inter/Act Spoken Word, several readers will read from the anthology Midnight in America (Again
  • AWP Panel: Dark-Lit Awakening: Rethinking the Lyric Moment
    AWP Panel: Dark-Lit Awakening: Rethinking the Lyric Moment
    Sat, Mar 29
    Los Angeles
    Mar 29, 2025, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
    Los Angeles, 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
    A study of timeless awe in poetry and how to trigger it through rendering life's "dark" moments.
  • AWP Panel: The Intimate Podcast: A Path to Community
    AWP Panel: The Intimate Podcast: A Path to Community
    Fri, Mar 28
    Los Angeles
    Mar 28, 2025, 3:20 PM – 4:30 PM
    Los Angeles, 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
    In Room 515B, Level Two, members of the Hive Poetry Collective get real about podcasting
  • Reading for Winter in America (Again
    Reading for Winter in America (Again
    Thu, Mar 27
    Los Angeles
    Mar 27, 2025, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Los Angeles, 5151 State University Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
    Several poets will read their work from Winter in America (Again
  • Marin Poetry Center
    Marin Poetry Center
    Thu, Dec 19
    Mill Valley Library
    Dec 19, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Mill Valley Library , 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941, USA
    Danusha Lameris and I will read from our new books!
  • Poem after Poem: Round-Robin Reading Series
    Poem after Poem: Round-Robin Reading Series
    Wed, Dec 11
    On line
    Dec 11, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
    On line
    Sandra Yannone, Lana Hechtman Ayers, and Dion O'Reilly take turns sharing poems . Register here: https://lanaayers.com/RoundRobin11Dec24.htm
  • Windfall Reading Series
    Windfall Reading Series
    Wed, Oct 16
    Eugene
    Oct 16, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
    Eugene, 100 W 10th Ave, Eugene, OR 97401, USA
    At this event, I am reading with the great Emmet Wheatfall!
  • RockPaperPoem Reading Series
    RockPaperPoem Reading Series
    Sun, Oct 13
    Zoom at RockPaperPoem.com
    Oct 13, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM PDT
    Zoom at RockPaperPoem.com
    Register at RockPaperPoem.com to listen to the poetry of Diane LeBlanc, Dion O’Reilly, David Prather, and Jeanne Wagner. All were prize winners or finalists in the recent RockPaperPoem Poetry Prize competition
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