Macaroni Necklace #5.2: Woltag, Hume, Wilson + Muhammad

Come to San Francisco release and reading for Macaroni Necklace #5, featuring new writing by Laura Woltag, Angela Hume, Mary Wilson, and Ismail Muhammad!

Macaroni Necklace is a Bay Area DIY literary zine dedicated to publishing (mostly) poets, fiction writers, and text-based artists who have yet to published a full-length collection. Reading and zines are free.

Macaroni Necklace #5 was self-curated, with writers picking and introducing other writers to bring into the Macaroni fold.

LAURA WOLTAG lives in South Berkeley. Her most recent chapbook is Hush Hyletics (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs). Her poems have been installed along the Deer Creek Trail in Nevada City by Unmanned Minerals, and appear in print in Where Eagles Dare, Try, OMG!, and the
anthology It’s Night in San Francisco but it’s Sunny In Oakland.

ANGELA HUME lives in Oakland. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Melos (Projective Industries, 2015), The Middle (Omnidawn, 2013) and Second Story of Your Body (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2011). Her first full-length book of poetry is Middle Time (Omnidawn, 2016). You can learn more about Angela at angelamhume.tumblr.com.

MARY WILSON lives holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, and she is currently pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her poems have appeared in Gobbet, Sun’s Skeleton, Everyday Genius, Anomalous, and Coconut.

ISMAIL MUHAMMAD is a writer and Ph.D. candidate living in Oakland. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly, and Public Books. Sometimes he tweets @trapmotives.