Upcoming readings for the 'I think I can't speak for everyone here' series:
Saturday, July 13th, 3pm EST: featured Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi and Saba Keramati
Saba Keramati is a Chinese-Iranian writer from California. She is the author of Self-Mythology (University of Arkansas Press, 2024), selected by Patricia Smith for the Miller Williams Poetry Series. She is also the poetry editor for Sundog Lit.
Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi, Frontier I, is a Nigerian-Hausa multidisciplinary artist, poet, and a licenced Medical Laboratory Scientist from Bobi. She is the author of the chapbook Cadaver of Red Roses (winner of the 2023 Derricotte/Eady Prize) and winner of the inaugural Folorunsho Editor’s Poetry Prize 2023, Labari Poetry Prize 2023, the inaugural Akachi Chukwuemeka Prize for Literature 2023, and Gimba Suleiman Hassan Gimba ESQ Poetry Prize, 2022 and the first beneficiary of Carolyn Micklem Scholarship. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in Strange Horizons, FIYAH, Uncanny Magazine, Poetry Daily, Agbowo, Torch Literary Arts, Arc Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Uncensored Snapshots is forthcoming with Chestnut Review (April/June 2025). She is active on X @ZainabBobi.
Sunday, July 14th, 4pm EST: featured Melissa Eleftherion and Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong
Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a writer, a librarian, and a visual artist. Born & raised in Brooklyn, she holds degrees from Brooklyn College, Mills College, and San Jose State University. They are the author of two poetry collections, field guide to autobiography (The Operating System, 2018), & gutter rainbows (Querencia Press, 2024), twelve chapbooks including abject sutures (above/ground press, 2024), & several books currently touring the rejection circuit. Her work has been widely published & featured in venues like Quarter after Eight, Sixth Finch, Entropy, & Barren Magazine. Melissa now lives in Northern California where she manages the Ukiah Branch Library, curates the LOBA Reading Series, and serves as Poet Laureate Emeritus of the City of Ukiah. Recent work is available at www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com.
Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong is from Oregon. Her poems can be found in ONLY POEMS, Shenandoah, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and The Columbia Review, among others. She is a Wednesday's child.
After the two features read, and answer a question or two, I go right into the open mic. So far, I host the series usually on a Saturday or a Sunday afternoon around 3 or 4pm so.
Question: Is your email a yahoo? I see on your Facebook it has your email. Is that the one? If so, I can email you and I’ll let you know my schedule for the weekend.
So, the reading info or questions about the reading all goes thru/to: bluejawedsnake@gmail.com The readings are held over Zoom. There is a reading on Saturday at 3PM EST and a reading on Sunday at 4PM EST. The open mic will take place at each reading after the two features are finished reading. At that point, I’ll announce individuals to read 1-2 poems for the open mic.
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Question: When do you usually host open mic on Zoom?
After the two features read, and answer a question or two, I go right into the open mic. So far, I host the series usually on a Saturday or a Sunday afternoon around 3 or 4pm so.
I would very much like to join you’re Zoom live open mic poetry. If that’s okay with you?
Sure thing! Do you have an email I can send the invite for the reading to?
Question: Is your email a yahoo? I see on your Facebook it has your email. Is that the one? If so, I can email you and I’ll let you know my schedule for the weekend.
So, the reading info or questions about the reading all goes thru/to: bluejawedsnake@gmail.com The readings are held over Zoom. There is a reading on Saturday at 3PM EST and a reading on Sunday at 4PM EST. The open mic will take place at each reading after the two features are finished reading. At that point, I’ll announce individuals to read 1-2 poems for the open mic.
The email you just sent me…do you use that? If so, I’ll email you now.
yes, that’s the email I use to sort the reading info, comments, questions, etc.
Okay, I’ll email you now. The title will say me Charlie Z.
And let me know which reading you’d like to attend, the Saturday or the Sunday reading.