EVENTS
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  • Saturday, May 24 at 2 PM - Coast Lines Anthology Midlands Poets Reading at One Columbia for Arts and Culture, 1013 Duke Avenue, Columbia, SC 29203
  • Saturday, May 31 at 10 AM-12 PM - Spring Forest Wellness Journaling Workshop at Congaree National Park based on Earth Joy Writing. Event is free and participants receive a Congaree-themed journal, but registration is required.
  • Saturday, June 28 at 2-4 PM ET online - poeTRYhealing: poetry as a way to heal from individual and collective trauma featuring poetry by Gloria Anzaldúa, Ellen Bass, Joy Harjo, Yusef Komunyakaa, Audre Lorde, Anne Sexton, and Ocean Vuong at The Loft Literary Center. Registration is now open.​​

​PAST EVENTS 
  • October 10, 2023, at 6:30 PM - I Am No Handmaid: Online Launch Party for Swimming in Gilead hosted by Casey Catherine Moore
  • November 7, 2023, at 7 PM - Feature Poet, Simple Gifts at the Columbia Friends Meeting, 120 Pisgah Church Rd, Columbia, SC
  • November 10, 2023, at 6:30 PM - Poetry Society of SC at the Charleston Library Society, 164 King Street Charleston, SC 
  • November 16, 2023, at 6 PM - Launch Party for Beaver Girl at All Good Books, 734 Harden Street, Columbia, SC
  • January 16, 2024, at 11:30-1:30 - Readers & Writers Luncheon Guest Author at Hickory Tavern, 141 Pelham Drive, Columbia, SC​​
  • Wednesday, January 31, 2024, at 9:15-10:45 AM - Kiwanis Meeting Speaker,  1650 Park Circle, Columbia, SC​
  • Wednesday, February 7, 2024, at 5-7 PM - AWP Off-Site Event/Reading with WWPH, Day Eight, and Yellow Arrow Publishing, Bluford Conference Center at Lucile H Bluford Branch of the Kansas City Public Library, 3050 Prospect Ave, Kansas City, MO
  • Wednesday, February 7, 2024, at 6:30-10:30 PM - Wednesday Night Poetry Offsite Reading, Charlotte Street Stern Theater, 3333 Wyoming Street, Kansas City, MO
  • Thursday, February 8, 2024, at 1-2 PM - Book Signing for Swimming in Gilead with Yellow Arrow Publishing at AWP, Exhibit Space T3034, Kansas City, MO
  • Thursday, February 8, 2024, at 3-4 PM -Book Signing for Ruin and Beautiful Waters with Finishing Line Press at AWP, Booth 1207, Kansas City, MO
  • Thursday, February 22, 2024, at 6 PM - Queer Writers of Columbia Reading, Curiosity Coffee Bar, 2327 Main Street, Columbia, SC​
  • Wednesday, February 28, 2024, at 7 PM - Waterbean Poetry Feature, 9705 Sam Furr Rd., Suite A, Huntersville, NC​
  • Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at 6:30 PM - Feature Poet at Wednesday Night Poetry, America’s Longest Running Consecutive Weekly Poetry Series, Kollective Coffee+Tea, 110 Central Ave, Hot Springs, Arkansas​
  • Sunday, April 21, 2024, at 3-5 PM - Earth Day Celebration and Launch of One Book, One Community 2024 Selection Sponsored by The Jasper Project and One Columbia for Arts and Culture and Hosted by the Bierkeller, 600 Canalside St Suite 1009, Columbia, SC
  • Saturday, April 27, 2024, at 10 AM-12 PM - Spring Forest Journaling with the Author of Beaver Girl and Earth Joy Writing at Congaree National Park ​
  • Thursday, May 2, 2024, at 6:30-7:30 PM ET -  Can Beavers Really Save the World? Ask the Author and Scholar, An Online Panel Discussion with Dr. Cassie Premo Steele, Dr. Emily Fairfax and E.V. Bell, Sponsored by The Jasper Project - Register HERE 
  • Sunday, May 19, 2024, at 1-3 PM - Creative Environmental Writing Workshop with Author Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D., in conversation with Author & Publisher Midge Raymond, Ashland Public Library, 410 Siskiyou Boulevard, Ashland, Oregon - More information and free registration HERE ​
  • Tuesday, May 21, 2024, at 11:00 AM-1:00 PM - Visit with the Beavers at the Great Northwest Cascade and Pond Habitat at the Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, Portland, OR 97221 - Meet up 
  • Wednesday, May 22, 2024, at 12:15 PM-1:15 PM - Guest Visit for Senior Capstone Course, “Environmental Justice and Salmon” with David Osborn at Portland State University
  • Wednesday, May 22, 2024, at 5:50-7:30 PM - Private Garden Party and House Reading of Beaver Girl and Beautiful Waters
  • Thursday, May 23, 2024, at 10:00-11:50 AM - Guest Visit for University Studies Course with Amy Minato at Portland State University
  • Thursday, May 23, 2024, at 6:00 PM - “Eco-Diversity and the Search for Meaning in Our Writing and Research," Keynote Address by Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D., at the Colloquium at the 2024 Annual Environmental Research Colloquium, Native American Student and Community Center, 710 SW Jackson Street, Indigenous Ancestral Homelands, Portland, Oregon
  • Sunday, May 26, 2024, at 7:30-9:30 PM - "Writing the Code of the Water Way: A Beaver Girl-Themed Workshop, Walk & Watch," in Partnership with Beavers Northwest at Meadowbrook Pond, 10517 35th Ave NE, Seattle, Washington - More information and free registration HERE
  • Saturday, June 8, 2024, at 11:00 AM-12:00 PM - Reading and Community Discussion about Beaver Girl at the AG + ART TOUR for Richland County, The Living Wright Foundation Farm at Senate's End, 302 Senate Street, Columbia, SC​
  • Monday, June 10, 2024, at 6:00-7:30 PM - Uniquely Close: Biodiversity at Congaree and Diversity in Columbia, a Panel Discussion with Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D., Author of Beaver Girl, Jessica Elfenbein, Ph.D., Chairperson of History at the University of South Carolina, John Kupfer, Ph.D., Professor of Geography at the University of South Carolina, Rhonda Grego, Ph.D., Dean, School of English and Humanities, at Midlands Technical College, and Tameria Warren, Ph.D., SE Rural Community Outreach Organization Board Member and Instructor in the School of Earth, Ocean & Environment at the University of South Carolina, at the Nickelodeon Theatre, 1607 Main Street, Columbia, SC
  • Saturday, June 22, 2024, - 9:45-10:45 AM -Fresh Ink: Meet the Poets with New Poetry Books Featuring Evelyn Berry, Cassie Premo Steele, Ray McManus, Willie Lee Kinard III, Kristine Hartvigsen, and Terrance P. Elmore, Soda City Poetry Festival at Richland County Library Theater, 1431 Assembly St, Columbia, SC 29201 
  • Saturday, June 29, 2024, - 3:00-5:00 PM - Poetry Reading in conjunction with Becoming: The Feminist Image, a photography exhibition featuring works from 30 female photographers from across the United States and Europe, 918 Lady Street, Columbia, SC 29201
  • Monday, July 1, 2024, - Deadline for The Art of ONE BOOK 2024 Contest for Poetry, Visual Art and Original Music Inspired by Beaver Girl to be featured at the Multidisciplinary Arts Finale on September 22 
  • Monday, July 8, 2024, - 6:00 PM CT - Beaver Girl Book Signing at Commonplace Books, 1325 N. Walker Avenue, No. 138, Oklahoma City Oklahoma
  • Wednesday, July 10, 2024, at 5:30-7:00 PM CT - The Code of the Water Way: A Creative Environmental Writing Workshop with Cassie Premo Steele, Author of Beaver Girl at Literati Press Bookshop and Creative Writing Center, 3022 Paseo, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  • Saturday, July 13, 2024, at 11:00 AM CT - Reading at Woody Guthrie Poetry Festival in conjunction with WoodyFest2024 - The History Center. 407 W Broadway Street, Okemah, Oklahoma 
  • Tuesday, July 23, 2024, at 9:00-11:00 AM - Creative Environmental Writing Workshop for Environmental Educators with Author Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D. at Congaree National Park hosted by the Environmental Education Association of South Carolina - Register HERE
  • Tuesday, August 27, 2024, at 6:00 PM  7:30 PM - Community Book Discussion with Cassie Premo Steele, Author of Beaver Girl, Moderated by Ruth Smyrl, Store Manager at All Good Books, 734 Harden Street Columbia, SC​​
  • Saturday, September 7, 2024, at 10 AM-12 PM - Fall Forest Journaling with the Author of Beaver Girl and Earth Joy Writing at Congaree National Park. Free but space is limited. Register here.​
  • Monday, September 9, 2024, at 6:30-7:30 PM - Queer-Themed Book Discussion with Cassie Premo Steele, Author of Beaver Girl, Moderated by Maggie Olszewski, Queer Poet and Employee at All Good Books, to be held at The Hoot, 2910 Rosewood Drive, Suite 1, Columbia SC
  • Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 6:00-7:30 PM - All Booked Up, the S.C. Sea Grant Consortium’s Coastal Reading Club for formal, non-formal, or homeschool educators, discussing Beaver Girl. Online. More info here.​
  • Sunday, September 22, 2024, at 4:00-7:00 PM -  Jasper Magazine Fall Release Party & Potluck Dinner with BYOB. Music, Art, DJ, Poetry, Cozy Conversations and Hugs! One Columbia Co-Op, 1013 Duke Avenue, Columbia, SC​
  • September 29, 2024, at 5-7 PM - Free to Read Fest, $5 at the door - proceeds go to The Merritt Fund - including  DJ LanAtron, Burrito Wolf, Capital City Playboys, and poets Evelyn Berry, Jennifer Bartell Boykin, Tayler Simon, and Cassie Premo Steele at the Art Bar, 1211 Park Street, Columbia, SC
  • October 19-24, 2024, Beaver CON at the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, CO
  • November 12, 2024, at 6-8 PM - Guest Speaker on Collective (Cultural, Racial, Ancestral, Eco, and Covid) Trauma for Exploring Trauma and Sudden Death taught by Melissa Seligman for the Conscious Dying Collective
  • November 23, 2024, at 10 AM- 12 PM - Fall Forest Wellness Journaling at Congaree National Park - Registration opens October 22
  • December 14, 2024, - Workshop Leader for the 5th Annual Speedwriting and Reading Holiday Party at the Larksong Writers Place​
  • Saturday, February 1, 2025, at 1-4 CT online - poeTRYhealing: poetry as a way to heal from individual and collective trauma featuring poetry by Gloria Anzaldúa, Ellen Bass, Joy Harjo, Yusef Komunyakaa, Audre Lorde, Anne Sexton, and Ocean Vuong at The Loft Literary Center
  • Friday, March 7, 2025, at 12 noon CT online - First Friday Book Talk & Reading of Beaver Girl at the Larksong Writers Place
  • Saturday, March 8 at 9-11 AM CT online - Writing Your Queer Nature: A Generative Writing Workshop with Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D. at the Larksong Writers Place
  • ​​Wednesday, March 26, 2025, at 7-9 PM ET - Women's History Month with Feature Poet Cassie Premo Steele and Feature Musician Candace Chellew at Mind Gravy Poetry, Cool Beans Coffee Co., 1217 College St, Columbia, SC 29201
  • Saturday, March 29, 2025, from 2:30-3:30 PM ET - "Beavers and People," A Conversation about Beaver Girl with Dr. Cassie Premo Steele and Dr. Rhonda Carnell Grego, the former Dean of the School of English and Humanities at Midlands Technical College, at the Read Freely Fest, Richland Library Theater, 1431 Assembly St, Columbia, SC 29201​
  • Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 2-4 PM - Coast Lines Anthology Midlands Poets Reading at the South Carolina State Library, 1500 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29201
  • Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 6-7 PM - Earth Day at Bierkeller with Congaree Riverkeeper and Coast Lines Anthology poets Jennifer Bartell Boykin, Evelyn Berry, Al Black, Ed Madden, Lawrence Rhu and Cassie Premo Steele at the Bierkeller Brewing Company, 600 Canalside St., Suite 1009, Columbia, SC 29201. 10% of all Bierkeller profits go to Congaree Riverkeeper
  • Saturday, April 26, 2025, at 11:30 AM-12:15 PM - Earth Day Artists Panel, part of the Earth Day Climate Action Fair, a free family-friendly event from 9 AM-1 PM, sponsored by the Columbia Climate Protection Action Committee (CPAC) with co-hosts SC Public Health Association and Central Midlands Council of Governments, at Boyd Plaza in front of the Columbia Museum of Art, 1515 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201