Join us for a reading by featured poets Banah el Ghadbanah and Ashia Ajani. The reading will be preceded by a round of introductory readings by members of our community. SUPPORT OUR WORK: Suggested donation of $5 or more. Every donation to Open Mouth Literary Center supports our programming, ASL interpreters, featured poets, and increasing […]
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Myth Making and Environment, A Workshop with Ashia Ajani
Join us on Sunday, October 13, 2022 at 2:00pm Central for a generative workshop with featured poet Ashia Ajani. This workshop will use climate writing and art by members of the African Diaspora to inform young people’s own climate narratives. Climate change is one of the biggest sources of stress among young people; being able […]
Open Mouth Presents Against Despair: A Workshop with CT Salazar
Join us on Sunday, October 23, 2:00pm Central for a generative workshop with featured poet C.T. Salazar. Against Despair, or a workshop on Headlessness Lately I’ve been in awe of how lyric poems are capable of both articulating despair and making a poem-wide space where are not occupied by it. Where do our minds go […]
CT Salazar
Join us for a reading by featured poet C.T. Salazar. The reading will be preceded by a round of introductory readings by members of our poetry community. SUPPORT OUR WORK: Suggested donation of $5 or more. Every donation to Open Mouth Literary Center supports our programming, ASL interpreters, featured poets, and increasing accessibility. The only […]
Open Mouth Presents: A Reading with Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison
Join us on Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 7:00pm Central for a reading by featured poets Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison. The reading will be preceded by a round of introductory readings by members of our poetry community. SUPPORT OUR WORK: Suggested donation of $5 or more. Every donation to Open Mouth Literary Center supports […]
Open Mouth Presents: A Workshop with Molly McCully Brown
Join us on Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 2:00pm Central for a generative workshop with featured poet Molly McCully Brown. THE USES OF THE BODY In many ways, every story is about the body. No one lives apart from theirs, and so no writer, speaker or character exists fully removed from the simultaneously fragile and […]
Open Mouth Presents: A Workshop with Dare Williams
Join us on Sunday, July 10, 2022 at 2:00pm Central for a generative workshop with poet Dare Williams. The Department of You I was inspired by hearing the poet Divya Victor’s award-winning collection, CURB. I started to think about Bureaucracy and what it means to be a citizen in this country. How does living among […]
Open Mouth Presents: a Reading with Natalie Wee and syan jay
Join us on Sunday, July 10, 2022 at 7:00pm Central for a reading by featured poets Natalie Wee and syan jay. The reading will be preceded by a round of introductory readings by past Mt. Sequoyah Residents. ACCESS NOTES: The reading will take place virtually via Zoom with Zoom auto captions. An ASL interpreter will be […]
A Reading with Alison C. Rollins and Paul Tran
Join us on Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 7:00pm Central for a reading by featured poets Alison C. Rollins and Paul Tran. This public event is part of our Annual Retreat, and participants will share their work alongside Alison and Paul. The reading will take place virtually via Zoom with Zoom auto captions, and an […]
Dreaming Black Unicorns: A Workshop with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Join us on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 5:00pm Central for a generative workshop with featured poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs .Dreaming Black Unicorns: A Workshop. Based on Audre Lorde’s classic poem “The Black Unicorn,” this poetry workshop is an opportunity to write about ourselves as the powerful mythical creatures we are. The Black Unicorn by […]