Happy National Poetry Month!
We are super excited to celebrate some amazing local poets! Bring your snaps, energy, and love!
All their chapbooks will be available as well!
No Registration Required
THE Poets:
Stephanie Niu is the author of her debut chapbook "She Has Dreamt Again of Water". Stephanie imagines the deep sea as sanctuary. Her poems seek solace from generational guilt and a fractured family by diving into dreamscapes where gills grow as easily as wings. In these poems, the surreal and unseen suggest the shapes of shared longing.
Ariel Tsai is the author of her new book, Narcissus. Like its namesake, Narcissus reflects the human condition in all its most beautiful, mundane, and unpleasant forms. Her voice—unadulterated and sensual—sets a mirror on her foundational experiences and allows us to find resemblance in our own lives.
Natasha Rao is the author of Latitude. This debut collection abounds with sensory delights, rich in colors, flavors, and sounds. These poems explore the complexities of family, cultural identity, and coming of age. By turns vulnerable and bold, Latitude indulges in desire: “In my next life let me be a tomato/lusting and unafraid,” Rao writes, “…knowing I’ll end up in an eager mouth.
Glowstick is Jade M. Wong’s debut poetry collection and is the result of Jade’s own journey with her mental health. Glowstick guides the reader on a roller-coaster journey through the gradual decline of mental health before striving for acceptance and recovery. This collection celebrates self-love, quiet resilience and compassion, both for yourself and for others.
Jed Munson is a Korean American writer from Wisconsin. A debut chapbook written in pandemic, Newsflash Under Fire, Over the Shoulder is a dispatch at the end of a coming of age, one shrouded by barely-functioning systems of meaning-making and thought. One such system is the poet’s voice: wrangling urgency and buffoonery, seriousness and self-seriousness, it willfully meanders through a collapsing landscape, sounding out litanies, evocations, and alarms.