Come hear from our four headlining poets and bring your own work to share! After readings from Amy Raasch, Leila Bilick, Crystal AC Salas, and Sara Ellen Fowler, we'll open up the floor to you. Sign-ups will start at 5:45.
About the poets:
Amy Raasch is a Los Angeles-based poet, musician, and actor. She holds a BA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars. Her writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The American Journal of Poetry, ANMLY, F(r)iction, and a few anthologies. Her poetry manuscript, "Why I Am Not a Gravedigger," is a 2024 Trio Award Finalist. She writes about what haunts us.
Leila Bilick’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Action, Spectacle; American Literary Review; Lilith Magazine; The Coachella Review; and Soundings East, among others. She has an MA in English from UMass Boston and lives in Los Angeles with her two daughters. She works as a copy editor and facilitates Jewish poetry workshops
Crystal AC Salas is a Xicanx poet, essayist, educator, and community organizer. Her poetry chapbook Grief Logic is co-winner of the inaugural Alta California Prize, from Gunpowder Press. She has work in Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, Alta Journal, Northwest Review, [PANK] Magazine, World Literature Today, Chaparral Poetry, Acentos Review, and others. A founding member of the BreakBread Literacy Project, which elevates the voices of young creatives under 25, she serves as poetry editor for BreakBread Magazine. She holds an M.F.A. from University of California, Riverside and is the recipient of a 2021-2022 California Arts Council Established Individual Artist Fellowship.
Sara Ellen Fowler is a poet and artist based in Los Angeles. Her first book, Two Signatures, winner of the 2023 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, has been published by the University of Utah Press. Other writing has appeared in The Offing, X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal, Gigantic Sequins, and Cream City Review, among others. A recipient of a 2023 California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, Sara holds a BFA from Art Center College of Design and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside.
The readings will run for approx. 1.5 hours. Please show up at 5:45 to sign up and secure your spot in the lineup. We may ask to review content before it is read.
