November 16, 2005 Bethesda, Maryland
7 pm Bilingual Bonzanza: Poetry in Spanish & English, Juste Lounge, 6821 Reed St near the intersection of Woodmont and Bethesda Aves in the heart of Bethesda, across the street from Barnes & Noble. C.M. Mayo, Luis Alberto Ambroggio, Yvette Neisser, and Maritza Rivera Cohen will read. Hosted by Philip Wexler. To be followed by an open reading. Free admission

November 3, 2005 Montreal, Canada
Hotel Omni Mont-Royal, The American Literary Translators Association Conference, 11 am - 12:15 pm. C.M. Mayo will participate on a panel moderated by Luise von Flotow, "Anthologies: Selecting, Translating, and Then... Publishing, If You're Lucky". C.M. Mayo will discuss her forthcoming anthology, MEXICO: A Traveler's Literary Companion, a collection of Mexican fiction and prose in translation. She will also be reading from her translation of "Day and Night" by Mexican writer Monica Lavin. For more about the ALTA conference, please visit the ALTA website.

READING & BOOK SIGNING: October 28, 2005
The Writers Center, Bethesda, Maryland
C.M. Mayo will read with Sergio Tronocoso in a special celebration reading, "El Halloween and the Dia de Muertos". 7:30 p.m. Free admission. For more information (including directions to the Writer's Center) visit www.writer.org

POETRY & ANIMALS/ GRACE CHURCH POETRY READING: October 11, 2005
C.M. Mayo, together with Kim Roberts, Judith McCombs and others will read poetry in honor of St. Francis of Assisi. Wisconsin Ave, Georgetown, Washington DC
7:30 p.m.

BOOK TV on C-SPAN: Taping September 22, 2005
C.M. Mayo interviewed at Barnes & Noble, Bethesda, Maryland
The first stop on the national Book TV Bus Tour! For more information
www.booktv.org

WORKSHOP: September 17, 2005
1pm -4 pm, Bethesda, Maryland, "Literary Travel Writing" special one-time three hour workshop.
Take your travel writing to another level: the literary, which is to say, giving the reader the novelistic experience of actually traveling with you. For both beginning and advanced writers, this three hour workshop covers the techniques from fiction and poetry that you can apply to this specialized form of creative nonfiction for deliciously vivid effects. For more information and to register, click here.For more about the Writers Center, click here Note: C.M. Mayo will offer this same workshop again in Jan. 11th in Glen Echo Park (see listing below).

OPEN HOUSE: September 10, 2005
12 - 3 pm Bethesda, Maryland, The Writers Center Open House.
Meet C.M. Mayo and other workshop leaders, and bring your questions about the upcoming workshops. For more information visit www.writer.org

July 23, 2005, 10 am - 4 pm, Bethesda, Maryland, "Break the Block" special one day workshop with C.M. Mayo. For more information and to register visit www.writer.org

July 19, 2005, Baja Talk Radio. Host Ted Donovan interviews C.M. Mayo about Miraculous Air. Live 1-2 pm Pacific Time; 4-5 pm EST. It's been archived -- Click here to listen in!

May 25, 2005, 6-8 pm, "Translators without Borders" Third Annual Bilingual Poetry Reading Martin Luther King Memorial Library, 901 G St, Washington DC (in front of the Gallery Place Metro Stop) C.M. Mayo will participate in the bilingual poetry reading with a reading of her translation of Araceli Ardon's "It's Nothing of Mine"

May 15, 2005, 4:30 pm Sleepy Hollow, New York, Hudson Valley Writers' Center C.M. Mayo and David Means will read new fiction. 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY. Events are held in the restored Philipse Manor raiload station. For more information visit www.writerscenter.org or call (914) 332-5953 See also www.writerscenter.org/mayomeans.html

May 8, 2005, 6 pm, Iota Poetry Series @ Iota Club & Cafe, Arlington VA. C.M. Mayo will read with Rod Jellema (author of A Slender Grace). 2832 Wilson Blvd. Reading begins at 6, with open mic after featured poets. Iota is two blocks from the Clarendon Metro stop on the Orange Line; street and garage parking avail nearby. Admission free, with full bar and dinner menu available. For more info call 703-256-9275 or 703-522-8340

March 31, 2005, 10:30 - 11:45 am Kenyon Review panel at the Associated Writing Programs Conference, Fairmont Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Nancy Zafris, C.M. Mayo, and others. C.M. Mayo will read from "The Building of Quality," an evil little story. For more about the conference, visit www.awpwriter.org

March 5, 2005, 10 am - 4 pm, Bethesda, Maryland, "Break the Block" special one day workshop with C.M. Mayo. For more information, click here, or visit www.writer.org

March 4, 2005, 7:30 pm Leesburg, VA, "Leesburg First Friday" panel on "Writing from Experience" creative nonfiction, memoir, and nature writing with C.M. Mayo (Miraculous Air), Sara Mansfield Taber (Bread of Three Rivers) and Lisa Couturier (The Hopes of Snakes). Join us us a discussion about the many ways in which a writer's experience informs the creative process. Citing examples from their work, Couturier, Mayo and Taber will talk about how a writer can immerse in a place, culture, or landscape, ferret out personal stories, and use experiences and memories to create compelling memoirs, literary essays, and portraits of people, place and nature. At the Leesburg Town Hall, 25 W Market Street. For more information visit the Writers Center website, www.writer.org

February 8, 2005, 7 pm (6:30 pm order food and drinks), Bethesda, Maryland, Washington Independent Writers "Pubspeak": C.M. Mayo on "Literary Travel Writing" What is literary travel writing? Where are the markets? Plus a discussion of some spiffo techniques from fiction and poetry. La Madeleine in Bethesda. Member cost is $5 with advance payment, $7 at the door. Nonmember cost is $10 with advance payment; $15 at the door. Reservations required. Call (202) 737-9500 or rsvp@washwriter.org A form for online payment is also available at http://www.washwriter.org/pubspeak.html

February 10, 2005, 7:30 p.m. Silver Spring, Maryland, Nora School Poetry Reading Series C.M. Mayo will read with poets Michelle Giarusso and Melissa Tuckey. The Nora School, 955 Sligo Ave, Silver Spring, MD. For more information visit www.nora-school.org or call (301) 495-6672.

February 2, 2005, 7 pm, Falls Church, Virginia, Stacy's Coffee Parlor. C.M. Mayo will read with Susan Burgess-Lent from the anthology edited by Richard Peabody, Grace & Gravity: Fiction by Washington Area Women. Stacy's Coffee Parlor, 709 West Broad St. Tel. (703) 538-6266. Driving from Lee HIghway, turn right on Broad and it's on the left just past Panera (on the right). Hey! This place stocks "Le Cupcakes" -- for those on the cupcake hajj, Stacy's is Mecca.

January 15, 2005, 1 - 3 pm Bethesda, Maryland, The Writers Center Open House. Meet C.M. Mayo and other workshop leaders, and bring your questions about the winter workshops. For more information visit www.writer.org

November 11, 2004, 7 p.m., College Park, Maryland, Jimenez-Porter Writers House, University of Maryland C.M. Mayo will read and participate in the presentation of the new issue of Creative Nonfiction, "Mexican Voices" edited by Ilan Stavans. This issue includes Mayo's essay, "The Essential Francisco Sosa or, Picadou's Mexico City"

October 21, 2004, 7 p.m. Chevy Chase, Maryland, Cafe Muse Literary Salon Poetry Reading Series C.M. Mayo will read with Elizabeth Rees. Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 South Park Ave. For more information: tel. 301-656-2797 www.wordworksdc.com

October 28, 2004, 6:30 p.m. Sewall-Belmont House, Washington DC C.M. Mayo will participate in the presentation of Grace & Gravity: Fiction by Washington Area Women, edited Richard Peabody. Hosted by the Womens National Book Association and the National Womens Party. Thirty-two Washington area women writers (including some WNBA members) are represented, including Doreen Baingana, Abby Bardi, Lucinda Ebersole, Barbara Esstman, Patricia Griffith, Melissa Hardin, Donna Hemans, Patti Kim, C.M. Mayo, Carolyn Parkhurst, Patricia Griffith, Leslie Pietrzyk, Mary Quattlebaum, and Mary Kay Zuravleff. The event, which will include a reading and a panel discussion, will take place at the NWP's historic Sewall-Belmont House located on Capitol Hill. The event is open to the public. WNBA members and NWP members receive free admission, and nonmembers pay $10. Please RSVP in advance if you plan to attend, to WNBA Program Chair Emily Sollie at esolliewnba@aol.com. Where: Sewall-Belmont House, 144 Constitution Ave NE, Washington DC Directions: Call (202) 546-1210 or visit http://www.sewallbelmont.org

September 18, 2004, 12 p.m. Salt Lake City, Utah, Great Salt Lake Book Festival C.M. Mayo will give a reading and slide show of photos from Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico. Salt Lake City Public Library, meeting rooms A & B. For more information, visit www.utahhumanities.org

April 23, 7-9 pm Bethesda Literary Festival - Opening Reception C.M. Mayo will read and sign books together with Dr Richard Restak, Allan Topol, and others Creative Partners Gallery, 4600 East-West Highway, Bethesda MD For more information call 301-215-6660 or visit ww.bethesda.org

April 6, 2004, 5 - 7 pm Chapters Literary Bookstore 11th St NW, Washington DC, C.M. Mayo will read poetry, together with Richard Pebody and Robert Giron and others -- "on work" Sponsored by the National Writers Union.

March 25, 2004, 2:30 - 4 Associated Writing Programs Conference Chicago IL. Panel discussion on "anthologizing Mexico" with Michael Wiegers of Copper Canyon Press, Jen Hofer, and Reginald Gibbons

December 8, 2003, 6 pm, Womens National Book Association Holiday Book Event, Teaism, Lafayette, Washington DC, C.M. Mayo will sign books

December 7,2003, 2 p.m.The Writers Center, Bethesda MD C.M. Mayo will present Tameme. For more information please visit www.tameme.org and www.writer.org

December 4, 2003, 7 - 9 p.m. Martin Luther King Library, Washington DC The Literary Magazine Fall Fiesta Editor C.M. Mayo of Tameme -- together with the editors of 32 Poems, Potomac Review, Gargoyle, Beltway, and others! For more information please contact cmmayo@cmmayo.com

November 19, 2003, 6:30 p.m. Instituto Mexicano, Washington DC C.M. Mayo, editor of Tameme - Reading and presentation of Tameme's new issue "Reconquest/ Reconquista" with Kate Blackwell, M.A. Schaffner, and Egla Morales Blouin "vino de honor" For more information please contact cmmayo@cmmayo.com

Montgomery College, Rockville Campus Books & Ideas Series C.M. Mayo "Beyond Borders: The Craft of Creative Nonfiction" Wednesday October 29, 2003 4:30 - 8:30, For more information please contact jgaines@mc.cc.md.us

October 1, 2003, Instituto Mexicano de Cultura, Washington DC Wednesday Slide show, reading from Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico. 6:30 p.m.

September 4, 2003, "Our Voices, Our Images" - A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center, Washington DC C.M. Mayo's poems.

August 13, 2003, 6:30 - 8 pm Bilingual Poetry Reading, Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library, Washington DC 901 G Street NW. C.M. Mayo will participate reading translations of poetry by Luis Alberto Ambroggio



THE MIRACULOUS AIR BOOKTOUR:

March 27, 2003 San Francisco Public Library 6 p.m. San Francisco CA
Reading, signing, slide show

February 26 - 28, 2003 Associated Writing Program Meetings, Baltimore MD
Panel on travel writing with Dawn Marano, Richard Goodman, Scott Olsen, and Sara Mansfield Taber

November 30, 2002 @ 3 p.m. Todos Santos, Baja California Sur (about 1 hour north of Cabo)The Annex to the Galeria de Todos Santos, sponsored by El Tecolote Libros Bookstore and La Galeria deTodos Santos Reading, signing and slide show Learn about this beautiful nearly 1,000 mile long peninsula, from Los Cabos to Tijuana -- missions, cave paintings, gray whales, turtles, great art, and more. For more information call El Tecolote Libros Bookstore (dial from Mexico) 01-612-14-50295 (dial from the USA) 001-52-612-14-50295

Photo by Jacinto Avalos
C.M. Mayo at La Galeria de Todos Santos,
Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Saturday, November 2, 2002 Barnes & Noble 5pm 11 West Hillsdale Blvd San Mateo CA 650-341-5560

Wednesday, November 6, 2002 Get Lost Travel 7 pm 1825 Market San Francisco CA 415-437-0529

Monday, November 11, 2002 Distant Lands 7:30pm 56 S. Raymond Old Pasadena CA 626-449-3220

Tuesday, November 12, 2002 California Map and Travel 7pm 3312 Pico Blvd.Santa Monica CA 310-396-6277/818-842-8346

Wednesday, November 13, 2002 Bay Books 4pm 1029 Orange Ave.Coronado CA 619-435-0070

Thursday November 14th, 2002 Discover Baja Travel Club 7 pm San Diego CA www.discoverbaja.com

Friday, November 15, 2002 John Cole's Bookstore 7 pm 780 Prospect St. La Jolla CA 858-454-4766

Saturday November 16, 2002 The Book Nook 2-4 pm El Centro Public Library El Centro CA

Thursday, November 21, 2002 Womens National Book Association "Expanding the Boundaries: The Travel Memoir" Travel Writing Panel with C.M. Mayo, Sara Manfield Taber, L. Peat O'Neil, and Amy Barden 7 p.m. Olsson's Books & Records, Rosslyn VA ***For the whole enchilada about this event, click here

Tuesday, October 22, 2002 Elliott Bay Book Co.7:30pm 101 S. Main St Seattle WA 206-624-6640

Wednesday, October 23, 2002 Third Place Books 7pm 17171 Bothel Way, NE Lake Forest WA 206-366-3320

Friday, October 25, 2002 Village Books 7:30pm 1210 Eleventh St.Bellingham WA 360-753-1599

Sunday, October 27, 2002 Book Passage 5pm 51 Tamal Vista Corte Madera CA 415-927-0973

Monday, October 28, 2002 The Lindsay Wildlife Museum 10 am 1931 1st Avenue Walnut Creek CA 925-935-1978 x426

Tuesday, October 29, 2002 Easy Going Travel Bookstore 7:30pm 1385 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley CA 843-3533

October 6, 2002 The Writers Center 2 p.m. www.writer.org Publication Reading: C.M. Mayo, Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California and Ann McLaughlin, The House on Q Street



ANCIENT HISTORY:

July 4, 2002 Mexico City Mexico World-to-World Translation Workshop At the Fondo de Cultura Economica C.M. Mayo will speak about Tameme.

June 23, 2002 New York City NY Literary Magazine Fair At the Housing Works Used Book Store & Cafe in SoHo 126 Crosby St New York City Sponsored by the Council of Literary Magazines and Small Presses, Literal Latte and Fence Tameme will be there! 12 - 5 pm Edited by C.M. Mayo.

June 20, 2002 Washington DC Rock Creek Gallery Reading 2401 Tilden St NW 8 p.m. Free C.M. Mayo will read with Leslie Pietrzyk and M.A. Schaffner

April 20, 2002 Brooklyn Park MD Maryland Writers Association 14th Annual Conference C.M. Mayo will give a workshop "Colorizing Your Writing" For more information http://www.marylandwriters.org or call 1-410-975-3307

November 17, 2001 Miami FL Miami International Book Fair C.M. Mayo will be at the Tameme table to sign Sky Over El Nido.

October 27, 2001 Raleigh NC American Literary Translators Association Annual Conference C.M. Mayo will read translations of poems by Mexican poet Tedi Lopez Mills (forthcoming in the anthology Reversible Monuments, edited by Monica de la Torre, Copper Canyon Press, 2001) Tameme (both the premier issue and "Sun and Moon / Sol y Luna") will be for sale at the book table

August 29, 2001 Arlington VA Panel on Writing as a Career, the US State Department July 23 - 27, 2001 Prescott AZ

The Hassayampa Institute for Creative Writing, Yavapai College C.M. Mayo will give a workshop in creative nonfiction. Contact: Susan Lang 1-800-922-6787 x 2276

July 23, 2001 Prescott AZ Reading, Prescott Public Library 2 pm C.M. Mayo will reading from Mircaulous Air: In Baja California

June 10, 2001 SoHo New York City New York City Literary Magazine Fair At the Housing Works Used Book Store & Cafe in SoHo 126 Crosby St New York City Sponsored by the Council of Literary Magazines and Small Presses, Literal Latte and Fence Tameme will be there! 12 - 5 pm Edited by C.M. Mayo.

April 18-21, 2001 Palm Springs CA Associated Writing Programs Conference Book Fair C.M. Mayo will sign Sky Over El Nido at Tameme's table, 4-19 at 11:30 a.m. Look for Tameme's new issue, "Sun and Moon/Sol y Luna" featuring work by Charles Simic, W.D. Snodgrass, and Alvaro Mutis. Editor C.M. Mayo will be at the Tameme table.

April 28, 2001 Bethesda MD The Mid-Atlantic Book Fair at The Writers Center 1- 5 pm 4508 Walsh St (one block east of Wisconsin Ave) Bethesda MD Look for Tameme's new issue, "Sun and Moon/Sol y Luna" featuring work by Charles Simic, W.D. Snodgrass, and Alvaro Mutis. Editor C.M. Mayo will be at the Tameme table.

Dec 5, 2000 Washington DC "ADDA" reading at the Chi-Cha Lounge C.M. Mayo will read from new work in Chelsea and Witness together with novelist Ann McLaughlin "ADDA" Reading Series at the Chi-Cha Lounge 1624 U St NW 7:30 pm