READINGS AND PERFORMANCES

2019 Whiting Award Winners Reading at The Strand Bookstore, New York, NY. "Tropical Depression," from Beast Meridian.

September 27, 2022 reading for The Nation Poetry Reading Series, hosted by Kaveh Akbar, featuring Ama Codjoe, Ilya Kaminsky, Katie Ferris, and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal.

December 17, 2021. Fire Is Not a Country Release Reading with Cynthia Dewi Oka and Jake Skeets

"Crossover Album," from Beast Meridian for the Ours Poetica Web Series from the Poetry Foundation.

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal reads "Malinche," from Beast Meridian, Thursday November 21, 2019, at The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University.

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal reads "To Actuate," Thursday November 21, 2019, at The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University.

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal reads from "Root Future," written for Women of Color Write the Future, Friday November 22, 2019, at Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA.

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal reads "Malinche" and "Malinalli," two poems from Beast Meridian, Friday November 22, 2019, at Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA.

Homemade Poems, a Zoom poetry reading with Terrance Hayes, Mahoghany L. Brown, T’ai Freedom Ford, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Saul Williams, Marwa Helal, Zaina Alsous, Eve Ensler, Elizabet Velasquez, Jessica Care Moore, Yrsa Daley Ward, Jaha Zainabu, and Jeffrey McDaniel.

The Quarantine Readings Series, curated by poet Aurielle Lucier, with features Danez Smith & Nabila Lovelace, along with Cynthia Manick, Victoria Newton Ford, Malcolm Tariq, and Imani Davis.

Las Peregrinas, with Xochitl Julisa Bermejo, Yaccaira Salvatierra, and Marisol Baca at Gemini Ink, San Antonio, TX on January 5, 2018.