Upcoming Events
Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Honolulu Hawaii, “Recovering Stories of Displacement and Dispossession through Issei Tanka Poetry” 8:15-9:45 am HST, Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort, 2005 Kalia Road, Honolulu, HI 96815.
11:15 am - 2:30 pm CST, By the Shore of Lake Michigan tanka poetry talk, the The Nineteenth Century Charitable Association, Chicago, Illinois.
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University of California at Merced panel discussion, "Women Who Nourish: From Soil to Table to Glass."
Join us at UC Merced for an inspiring Women’s History Month conversation celebrating women leading across agriculture, ranching, culinary arts, and food storytelling.
In recognition of the United Nations’ International Year of the Woman Farmer, Women Who Nourish highlights how women are shaping regenerative food systems, caring for the land, and nourishing communities — from soil to table to glass.
Date: March 19, 2026
Time: 6:00 pm -- 7:30 pm Location: UC Merced, Fred and Mitzie Ruiz Administration Center, Room 306
Parking: Free after 6:00 pm
UC Santa Barbara lecture for environmental studies professor Liz Carlisle’s Food, Agriculture, and the Environment class.
In person and online discussion and Q & A, “Poetry, Memory and Remembrance,” sponsored by Serica Initiative’s Serica Storytellers series and Julie Azuma of Potluck Asian America.
We will be tasting through a lineup of classic, and new or revivied styles to show how sake has evolved over the years.
Book talk and signing with Slow Food South Bay at Clio’s Books, Oakland, California. Stay tuned for details!
EcoFarm Conference keynote panel discussion, “How Women Are Rebuilding Our Regenerative Supply Chains,” Monterey, CA.
“She Rises: A Celebration of Women Bakers and Local Grain Economies.” Sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Food and Ecology, at the Centre for Social Innovation
December 16, 2025 12:10-3 pm By the Shore of Lake Michigan talk, School of Visual Arts , with Kyoko Miyabe’s Japanese literature class, 310 E. 22nth Street, New York, NY. 10010.
December 15, 2026, 7 pm, Bold Fork Books, Washington, D.C., book talk and signing. I’ll be in conversation with Dani Nierenberg, Food Tank
December 13, 2025 5:30 pm, Maker’s Mark x Tables of Contents dinner, a collaboration between Dinner Evan Hanczor literary book readings in collaboration with Maker’s Mark distillery, Rob Samuels, 8th-generation whisky distiller and grandson of the founders of Makers Mark. Venue: Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming,. .
December 11, 2025, 6-9 pm, Museum of Food and Drink, Brooklyn, NY. Panel discussion with four women who appear in Reapin Sam Garwin, OceanWave; Lisbeth Pacheco, Ethos Coffee Roasters; June Russell Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming; and Olivia Watkins, Black Farmer Fund. Book signing and regenerative snacks to follow.
December 7, 2025, noon-3 pm. Book signing at Karma Co-op, 739 Palmerston Ave (on Karma Lane), Toronto, Ontario, M6G 2R3.