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Journal publications include
Alabama Literary Review, Atlanta Review, Cimarron Review, The Cincinnati Review,
Euphony Journal,The Green Hills Literary Lantern, Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review,
The Minnesota Review, New Ohio Review, Poet Lore, Poetry East, The South Carolina Review,
The Sun, Tampa Review,
and The Texas Review.

Literary Journal Publications

Interviews

Forge Journal

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Crack the Spine

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The Nervous Breakdown

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Edgewood

A Video Reading with Music 

2023

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Chazen
Museum of Art’s
Bridge Poetry Series

Readings of poems inspired by
artwork by Suzanne Caporael
 

March 31, 2021

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Stonehaven

A Video Reading with Music 

2020

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Overture Center

Madison, Wisconsin

The Music of Words.
An evening of poetry and music.
 
April 10, 2019

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Cornelia Street Café Readings

New York, New York

A Night of Offerings from Unsolicited Press, May 31, 2017

Night Watch: An Elegy in Music
and Spoken Word,

with flutist Stephanie Jutt,
August 23, 2016

Finishing Line Press Authors,
January 22, 2014

Writers Room Members Reading,
April 21, 2009 

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Parkside Lounge READING

New York, New York

Kelsay Books authors,
May 19, 2018; May 21, 2022; May 20, 2023

Poet’s House Readings

New York, New York

Finishing Line Press Authors,
September 6, 2014; March 29, 2014

 

The Writers Room Member readings,
April 4, 2013

 

The Yale Bookstore (Barnes and Noble)

New Haven, Connecticut

Readings of Caduceus journal authors, April 14, 2012

Residency Fellowship

Madison, Wisconsin

Edenfred Arts Colony,
February, 2009

Sundance Cinemas Madison Reading,
February 26, 2009

Guest Speaker,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
February, 2009

Pushcart Prize 

nominated multiple times

Best of the Net
Award nomination 

2019

Notable Readings and More

“...Belair masterfully captures in his poems the central emotional sting that is to be found in the moments when we grow and change.” 

Lisa Vihos, Verse Wisconsin

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