CT Salazar

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A photo of the featured reader is outlined with a black line and displayed over a light blue background. Beneath the photo are the words "Open Mouth Presents: CT Salazar." Availability of sign language interpretation is indicated by the presence of an icon showing two hands signing in the bottom left corner.
Photo description: A black and white photo of the poet seated at a table with hands intertwined in front of the camera. His head is tilted looking into the camera and he's wearing a wearing a gray t-shirt. Photo by the poet.

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.

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ACCESS NOTES: The reading will take place virtually via Zoom with Zoom and Otter.ai auto captions. An ASL interpreter will be present. Access copies of poems will be made available via Google Docs. Our Access Statement will be read before we begin.

Recommended for attendees 16 years and above.

FEATURED READER:

C.T. Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. His debut collection, Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking (Acre Books 2022) was named a 2023 finalist for the Theodore Roethke Memorial Award. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Rumpus, Gulf Coast, West Branch, Denver Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, Hopkins Review, and elsewhere.