There are some benefits to having 8 editors of an anthology. It is 8 times the networking capacity. This is the case this week for the ongoing creative resistance to the current USAmerican administration, the poster boys for kakistocracy. & readings for Winter in America (Again are not the only readings of resistance.
The readings are:
Saturday, April 26, 10am PDT, Writers Speak Out Words of Resilience via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4288823774?pwd=WDU3KzZ5WG03b1BHdVVlcngxc3NtZz09 I’ve been invited by Martha Kaplan and other participants are organizer Larissa Schmailo, Brenda Cardenas and Roberto Harrison.
Saturday, April 26, 2-5pm PDT, Lit Balm featuring Winter in America (Again contributors. Zoom link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/461603228
https://www.facebook.com/events/1069618141663956/
Readers: Matthew Cooperman, Aby Kaupang, Mark Nowak, Rodrigo Toscano…
Sunday, April 27, 9:30am PDT The Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81959063630?pwd=M2NNY0VLeGo3ekpCbWk2N0FRdy9ZZz09 Poets reading:
John Maney, Aida Zilelian, Cynthia Manick, Cheryl Boyce Taylor, Keisha Gaye Anderson, Katie Sarah Zale, allia abdullah-matta, Paul E. Nelson, Kim Brandon & Rita Wilson. (Early warning, allia will join us at the Lopez Island Library July 8 at 6pm and at the Columbia City Gallery in Seattle July 12 at 2pm.
Sunday, April 27, 2pm PDT, 5pm EST: Lit Balm. Zoom link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/461603228
https://www.facebook.com/events/564288559434858/
Readers: allia abdullah-matta, Petra Kuppers, Bill Lavender, Paul E. Nelson, Roxi Power…
May 1, Elliott Bay Books, 7pm, Paul E Nelson, Greg Bem, Jason Wirth, Zach Charles, Robert Lashley, Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs & others. 1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA. I am delighted to read at this legendary bookstore and hope you will come out to hear these fine poets in creative resistance to autocracy.
May 5, ArtFul The Gallery, 3pm 526C Cumberland Road, Courtenay BC. The Canadian launch of Winter in America (Again with Ann G Walker, Carla Stein, Daphne Marlatt, Dion O’ Reilly, Lorin Medley, Paul E. Nelson, Robert Lashley & Scott Lawrance. Kristina Campbell has created quite a nexus of creativity in the Comox Valley and I am delighted to be part of this event.
May 5, ArtFul The Gallery, 7pm 526C Cumberland Road, Courtenay BC, ArtFul The Poets open mic + I’ll be your featured reader reading my latest all day poem ritual, Imbolc 2025 Dharma Position DaySong.
There’s more coming. Keep hope alive. Autocracy will not win.
