EVENTS

2025 

DECLARE

A collaborative concert of poetry, music, and visual art hosted by Apollo Chambers Players and former Houston Poet Laureates, Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts.

Saturday, October 4, 2025, 7:00pm

Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Houston, TX

Event Details

A reading with Katherine Durham Oldmixon Garza in celebration of her book, Life Afterlife: A Book of the Hours.

Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 6:30pm

Basket Books & Art, Houston, TX

Selected Events from 2021 - 2024

2024

  • A reading for the Houston Oasis Secular Community, September 8.

  • A reading of “Migrations” adapted for film by Jack Cochran & Pamela Falkenberg of Outlier Moving Pictures for REEL Poetry, Houston, April 2025.

2023

  • "Harlem Nights," a reading in celebration of Black History Month, University of Houston Downtown, February 21.

  • "Exploring the World of Asian American Poets," with Bao-Long Chu, Rohan Chhetri, Weijai Pan, and Ariana Lee, Julia Ideson Building, Houston Public Library, April 22. (Click here.)

  • Alta Arts Reading Series, a Poet Laureate Reading with Lupe Méndez and Avalon Hogans, October 18. (Click here.)

  • UHD Creative Writing Faculty Reading, with Jane Creighton, University of Houston Downtown, November 14.

2022​​

  • "Mrs. Schmetterling Unframed," an exhibit of poems by Robin Davidson and visual art by Sarah Fisher, curated by Mark Cervenka, University of Houston Downtown O'Kane Gallery, October 20 – December 5, 2022.  (Click here.)

  • A Reading (in person) from Dear Ms. Schubert and Mrs. Schmetterling with Polish poet, Michał Choiński, and Ukrainian poet, Oksana Lutsyshyna, at Brazos Bookstore, September 8, 2002. (Click here.)

  • A Reading of "Gratitude" for President Loren J. Blanchard's Investiture, University of Houston Downtown, Wortham Theater Center, Houston, May 24, 2022.

  • Interviewer, Post-reading interview with guest poet Olga Tokarczuk and translator Jennifer Croft for the Inprint Margaret Root Brown Reading Series. Houston, TX, March 2022. (Click here.)

  • Robin Davidson's "In the Balance of Final Things" in Spanish translation by Nidia Hernandez on La Maja Desnuda, January, 2022. (Click here.)

 2021

  • Arrowsmith Press Fall 2021 Book Launch Reading for Mrs. Schmetterling with Martin Edmunds and Alexandra Marshall, December 5, 2021. (Click here.)

  • A Reading of "In the Balance of Final Things" for Venezuelan poet Nidia Hernandez's Poetry site, November 25, 2021. (Click here.)

  • Kraków Night of Poets: Readings from the poetry of Ewa Lipska and Wojciech Bonowicz by their translators, Kraków, Poland, organized by Michał Choiński and Agata Hołobut, October 8 - 9, 2021. (Click here.)

  • A Virtual Reading with Jane Creighton from Bone Skid, Bone Beauty, and Robin Davidson from Dear Ms. Schubert (Princeton University Press, 2021) with selections from Mrs. Schmetterling (Arrowsmith Press, 2021), BookWoman, Austin, TX, September 30, 2021.  (Click here.)

  • Odes & Elegies: Eco-poetry from the Texas Gulf Coast. A Virtual Reading organized by Katherine Hoerth and Lawrence Musgrove, March 12, 2021. (Click here.)

  • Poets & Writers: Hope, Not Fear: A Virtual Reading organized by Lupe Mendez, January, 2021. (Click here.)

My deep thanks to visual artist Sarah Fisher for our collaboration, and to Mark Cervenka, Director of the University of Houston Downtown O’Kane Gallery, for the beautiful exhibition that included Sarah’s artwork and my poems appearing on the gallery walls, with companion recordings of my reading of the poems! What generous artists they are!