A [quarantined] Room of One’s Own: Virtual Reading Series

A [quarantined] Room of One’s Own: Virtual Reading Series / POETRY night with MK Chavez, Letisia Cruz, and Wendy-O Matik

If you, like the rest of us, are feeling isolated with a sudden and vast amount of free time… AND you like authors and stories and amazing women, please join host Dani Burlison on zoom for a virtual literary series Tuesday nights at 6:30pm PST.

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+ MK Chavez is the award-winning author of Mothermorphosis, Dear Animal, and Virgin Eyes. Chavez is co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges, co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. Her most recent publications can be found in bags of coffee from Nomadic Coffee and on the Academy of American Poets website’s Poem-A-Day series.

+ Letisia Cruz is a Cuban-American writer and artist. She is the author of The Lost Girls Book of Divination (Tolsun Books, 2018). Her chapbook Chonga Nation was selected as a finalist in the 2018 Digging Press Chapbook Series and the 2016 Gazing Grain Chapbook Contest. Her writing and artwork have appeared in [PANK], Ninth Letter, The Acentos Review, Gulf Stream, Saw Palm, Third Coast, Duende, Moko Caribbean Arts & Letters, 300 Days of Sun, Ink Brick, and Sakura Review, among others. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s MFA program and lives in Florida with her partner and their two cats.

+ Wendy-O Matik is a poet, writer, activist, and the author of Love Like Rage (with manic d press) and Redefining Our Relationships (with Defiant Times Press). Back in the 90s, you could find her doing spokenword in the Bay Area punk scene and touring with various punk bands in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Wendy has also coauthored nine mindfulness meditation books for New Harbinger Publications and is currently pounding down the virtual doors of publishers to get her feminist-anarchist graphic novel out in the world. Today, she lives on an organic farm in Santa Rosa, CA, where the farm animals outnumber the humans.