organized by the poet Mark Nowak and sponsored by the PEN World Voices Festival. He with other members of the workshop read their taxi poems at "Watching the Meter: Poetry from the Taxi Drivers Workshop" at The Public Theater's Joe's Pub in New York City. In November 2017, Garrett's poem "A Taxi Driver's Die Gotterdammerung” was included in the poetry anthology, "From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream,” which was published by Autonomedia, a nationally known publisher of radical books. This poem documents Garrett's experience when his yellow taxi was parked under the North Tower of the World Trade Center at the moment the first plane hit the North Tower on September 11, 2001. Spoken word, performance Garrett has been performing spoken word plays, poetry and more, primarily in the New York City region. In 2009, 2010, and 2016, he performed in poet Joel Allegretti's tribute to Leonard Cohen, You Know Who I Am, which was produced by Greenwich Village's Cornelia Street Cafe. Garrett was cast in the play, “Ishtar Redux,” by poet John J. Trause that was staged in 2013 at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in an evening of performance works produced by the journal, Nerve Lantern. In August 2015, he was invited to the Boog City Poets’Theatre in the East Village, Manhattan, to perform a new poetic monologue with incidental music titled Nine Meditations on the Nothingness of Now. He collaborated with the musician, Michael Skliar. Flushing Town Hall, a cultural arts organization in the Borough of Queens, invited Garrett to give an outdoor poetry reading in Diversity Plaza in June 2016, as part of a cultural program celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month in Jackson Heights. In December 2016, The William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative of Southern Bergen County, New Jersey, invited Davidson Garrett to be the featured poet for their monthly poetry series. Garrett performed his entire funeral poem, "Southern Low Protestant Departure" at the William Carlos Williams Center for the Performing Arts in Rutherford, New Jersey. In January 2017, Garrett was invited to read poems in a series of shows at Cornelia Street Cafe, titled: "What Were The Sixties Really Like?" which were produced and curated by the poet/playwright Kathyn Adisman. The Workers Unite Film Festival, an annual event in New York City, invited Garrett to be one of the featured poets in May 2018, in a venue in Brooklyn, New York, as