Sunday 9/8, 3pm EST, featured readers Kristyn Garza and Clara Burghelea, the I Think I Can’t Speak For Everyone Here reading series

Please join us on Sunday 9/8 at 3pm EST for the 13th installment of the I Think I Can't Speak For Everyone Here reading series. Featured readers will be Kristyn Garza and Clara Burghelea.

Email bluejawedsnake@gmail.com for the zoom info and to sign up for the open mic.

Clara Burghelea published two poetry collections: The Flavor of the Other (Dos Madres Press 2020) and Praise the Unburied (Chaffinch Press 2021). Her poems and translations have been published in Goalf Coast, Delos, The Los Angeles Review and elsewhere. She is the Review Editor of Ezra, An Online Journal of Translation and a third-year PhD student in Literature at University of Texas at Dallas.

Kristyn Garza, a chicana from the U.S./Mexico border, moved from her hometown of McAllen, Texas to Austin to earn her bachelor's degree in English Literature at St. Edward’s University, later earning her MFA in Poetry from the University of Notre Dame. She was longlisted for Palette Poetry's 2022 Sappho Prize and her work has been published or is forthcoming in AGNI, Poets.org, Tupelo Quarterly, Cream City Review, The McNeese Review, RHINO, Pembroke Magazine, and others. Most recently, she was awarded the 2023 Academy of American Poets Billy Maich Award. Her chapbook, Dictionary of Bodies, won Gasher Press' 2024 Spring Poetry Chapbook Prize and is forthcoming in winter 2024. Kristyn currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio where she is in her second year of her PhD in Poetry at the University of Cincinnati.