Upcoming Events

Bazaar Writers Salon
With Susanna Kwan, Peter, Mann and Rachael Richardson 
Sunday, October 5th, 6:00 p.m.
Bazaar Cafe
5927 California St., San Francisco

Reading and Dialogue with Naomi Washer
Friday, October 17, 6:30
Clio’s
353 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA 94610

Reading – Four-Eyed Frog Books
Saturday, November 1, 5:30
39132 Ocean Drive, Gualala, CA 95445

William Alanson White Institute
Artist Study Group
Library, and on Zoom
 https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09
Thursday, November 6, 1:30–3:00 pm, EST
20 West 74th Street, NYC 10023

Reading and Conversation with Annie Sweetnam
PINC Second Friday,
November 14, 6:30-8:30
On Zoom, Register at db.pincsf.org/events

Conversations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute
December 11, 6:30–8:00

Reading with Denise Newman
Sunday January 25, 1:00
Book Passage
51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA 94925

Selected Past Events

Artist in Residence, Poetry and Memoir
American Psychoanalytic Association Annual Meetings
February 6, 2023

Psychoanalyst Commentator for Panel: “The Unseen/Unheard in Fiction and Memoir”
With Zadie Smith and Chris Abani
American Psychoanalytic Association Annual Meetings
January 15, 2016—Waldorf Hotel, New York, NY

Discussant of Giuseppe Civitarese’s “Poetry of Dream and Depersonalization”
Scientific Meeting, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
June 8, 2015

Clinical Plenary Speaker, “The Hunger Game: How can life begin with death?”
American Psychoanalytic Association Spring Meetings
June 6, 2015—Palace Hotel, San Francisco

The Art of mourning: Writing in order to mourn; Mourning in order to write
South Bay Community for Psychoanalytic Study and PINC
March 15, 2015

Poetry and Psychoanalysis, Poet Camille Dungy interviewed by Alice Jones
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
April 5, 2014

Plunge is a finalist for the Northern California Book Awards in Poetry
May 19, 2013—Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library

Invited Clinical Presenter with Patrick Miller, Two Day Clinical Workshop
American Psychoanalytic Association Meetings
June, 2011—San Francisco

Analyst and Writer, New Directions Program
With Theodore Jacobs, Forrest Hamer, Rosellen Brown
Washington, DC Center for Psychoanalysis
May, 2008

“All along the watchtower: Creativity and emergence in Bob Dylan’s poetry”
International Psychoanalytic Association Meetings
2009—Chicago

“Busy Being Born: A reflection on Bob Dylan’s creativity”
A discussion with Christopher Ricks
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
March, 2006

Invited Clinical Presenter with Christopher Bollas
San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute
December, 1998

Reading with Rafael Campo
San Francisco State Poetry Center
March, 1996—Grace Cathedral

“Experiencing Language: thoughts on poetry and psychoanalysis,” with Robert Pinsky
Boston Psychoanalytic Institute
March, 1996