events
Here you’ll find announcements / archives about events, readings, performances, exhibitions, installations, workshops, or any other form of public collaboration / interaction with my work. I hope you can join me whenever you can. All are always welcome.
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Melodrama: Music and Reading Series
WHEN: Monday, July 14, 7pm EST
WHERE: Berlin, 25 AVENUE A New York, NY 10009
WHO: C. (Constantine Jones), Glen K. Rodman, Gus Goldsack, Ryan Schulte, This WIlderness, & more—
HOW MUCH: $12 advance / $10 door
Working Girl's Poetry Night
Yr presence is requested at the inaugural instance of a new reading series conceived by my beloved friend Jamie Hood (author of How To Be A Good Girl: A Miscellany, and Trauma Plot: A Life) & myself, hosted by the generous folks at Topos Too in Ridgewood. Join us for sex-positive, class-conscious, speculative worldbuilding poems & more.
FREE & open to the public.
WHEN: Sunday, July 12, 7pm EST
WHERE: Topos Too, 59-22 Myrtle Ave, Queens, NY 11385
WHO: Jamie Hood, C. (Constantine Jones), Robert Balun, Ariel Martinez.
Love & Fury & Poetry & Prose (Poster House Members Only)
Coinciding with Nation Poetry Month and the Love & Fury exhibition on view at Poster House March 13-Sept. 6 2026, this workshop led by Eleanor Kipping and C. (Constantine Jones) invites participants to engage with the exhibit through the consideration of “layers”—asking questions around the intersecting layers of the AIDS Epidemic in New York City and how it was and continues to be visually presented, mapped, talked about within communities impacted by HIV/AIDS. Participants will engage through discussion, writing, and observation. All are welcome - regardless of knowledge or relationship to HIV/AIDS.
MoMA: Aesthetics of Ruination
As part of the Aesthetics of Ruination cohort responding to the works of Robert Farber (1948–1995) & Ronald Lockett (1965–1998), two American Artists who died of AIDS, I will be performing excerpts of my epic alongside a brilliant cohort of artists, academics, researchers etc. We hope you can join.
Political Grief Workshop With What Would An HIV Doula Do?
Join me & members of the collective, What Would An HIV Doula Do?, for a workshop engaging political / personal / anticipatory grief as braided strands of individual & group memories & experiences.
Sophia Tempest: Infinite Light Book Launch
Philly: join me in celebrating the launch of Sophia Tempest’s Infinite Light, out now from Bottlecap Press. Hosted by Alejandro Santana. With readings by Amanda Giordano, Vasiliki Argyris, Sophia Tempest & myself.
Discount Guillotine: Glasgow
DISCOUNT GUILLOTINE: Glasgow
July 3rd @ 6pm
The House Arts Collective
108-110 Napiershall St., Glasgow
FEATURING
Nicky Melville
Isaac Harris
Lady Red Ego
C. (Constantine Jones)
Leah Sinforiani
Despair Sanctuary: A Drone Metal Vigil For All Who Are Weary
A Drone Metal Vigil For All Who Are Weary
Dead End Zine: Capacity Launch Reading
Join us to celebrate the launch of Dead End Zine’s new issue: CAPACITY, edited by Ashna Ali & Huntie Hodkinson
Gowanustasia
Coffee in hand, sit Saturday and let some poetry in. We’ll be coalescing at @principlesbk on 4.26 at 11 am to hear from poets Robin Percyz, Jeffrey Perkins, Shou Jie Eng, Brad Vogel & C. in Gowanustasia V, the latest installment in this occasional poetry reading series.
Poets - they’re often onto something.
GRIEF & RAGE: Brooklyn Poets YAWP
Join Cea (Constantine Jones) at the Brooklyn Poets Yawp on Monday May 13 to explore how grief and rage, two emotions charged with negative associations, might actually be in service of our collective healing rather than destruction—if only we are willing to feel them earnestly.
WE REMIND YOU: An Evening On HIV + Palestine
HIV and Palestine, two crises, connected. Join members of What Would an HIV Doula Do? for an evening of presentations, performances, and small group discussions. Through the lens of public health, activism, cultural production and more, we will explore the influence, impact and relationship between the HIV response and the fight for Palestinian futures.
Poetry Night @ Otto's Shrunken Head
Poetry Night at Otto’s Shrunken Head in NYC Friday December 3rd featuring Sylvia Thomas, Kristine Esser Slentz, Zora Neale Satchell, Cea (Constantine Jones), and Matt Gahler.
Poem / Party For You
My birthday is June 19th & to celebrate my 29th birthday I want to extend an invitation for people to write their own poems for: who knows! A place, a time, a feeling, a memory, a circumstance, a person, a color etc. Twist your head around. Where do you receive love? Give a poem back to whatever that may be.
AIDS IS / AIDS AIN’T 40 PARTIES are ever-unfolding events hosted by members of What Would an HIV Doula Do? as part of the AIDS IS / AIDS AIN'T 40 series examining and troubling the numerous ways HIV gets historicized, ignored and shared in contemporary culture.
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