FlowerSong Press Presents Essentially Poetic Monthly Reading Series for Community Building, October 2023

Join us at our next installment of Essentially Poetic: A Monthly Reading Series

October 25, 2023 at 7:00 PM CST via Zoom

Registration is required for access to link!

Essentially Poetic Reading Series is a curation of poets, artists, essayists, novelists, educators, and everyday individuals whose deemed their voice essential, their work necessary, and their compassion for community building contagious and inspiring. This space is free of judgement and hate, and is a space for writers, readers, and admirers to come together to listen and uplift one another in a creative, poetic, and intentional online space.

Essentially Poetic is dedicated to amplifying essential voices throughout our world. By creating an online environment, we can reach beyond geographical borders and barriers. The essential voice echoes loud and translates intuitively. Join us each month as we come together to celebrate featured readers and artists and listen to their poetic and essential voice.

Meet our October Essentially Poetic Featured Readers:

Joan Kwon Glass is the author of NIGHT SWIM (Diode Editions, 2022) & three chapbooks including IF RUST CAN GROW ON THE MOON (Milk & Cake Press, 2022). She serves as poet laureate for Milford, CT, Editor in Chief for Harbor Review & as a writing instructor at Hudson Valley Writers Center, Brooklyn Poets & Corporeal. Joan’s poems have been featured or are forthcoming in The Slowdown, Poetry Northwest, Ninth Letter, Rattle, Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Asian American Writer’s Workshop, RHINO, Dialogist & elsewhere. Learn more at www.joankwonglass.com.

Ruben Quesada is the editor Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry, and author of Jane: La Segua, Revelations, and Next Extinct Mammal. His writing appears in the New York Times, Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Antioch University-Los Angeles and at Columbia College Chicago.

Samuel "Sami" Miranda grew up in the South Bronx and resides in Washington, DC. He is a visual artist, poet, and teacher. He is the author of Protection from Erasure, published by Jaded Ibis Press, Departure, a chapbook published by Central Square Press, and We Is, published by Zozobra Publishing. He is currently working on collaborative projects with musicians, visual artists and filmmakers. Samuel's artwork has been exhibited internationally in Puerto Rico and Madrid, as well as New York and Washington, DC. Most recently, Samuel's artwork has been included in the Smithsonian's new Molina Family Latino Gallery inaugural exhibition ¡Presente! His artwork has been included in university and private collections.  Films he co-produced and co-directed, "Hiding Place" and "Spanish Joe Remembers" have been included in film festivals in DC, Berlin, the Netherlands and Milwaukee.

Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese American poet, is the author of four poetry collections: Quarantiine Highway, Through a Grainy Landscape, Injuring Eternity, and Only More So.

Among her awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), California Arts Council, CantoMundo, Fulbright, Foundation for Contemporary Arts NYC (Covid grant), Creative Capacity, and Barbara Deming Foundation, “Money for Women.”  

Millicent holds degrees in English and writing from CSULB and the University of Southern California.

Come for an evening of inspiring literary works and an engaging discussion! Invite a friend, or make it a night full of creative expression, good food and drink with great company!