Queer Your Darlings Zoom Reading

Please join us in celebrating National Poetry Month with a reading of our li’l poetry writing group, Queer Your Darlings. 7pm April 28, 2020 on Zoom–just click this link to join: https://sjsu.zoom.us/j/385485173

Tiff Dressen lives in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco. Songs from the Astral Bestiary (https://www.amazon.com/Songs-Astral-Bestiary-Tiff-Dressen/dp/1889098132), a (slender) full-length collection of poetry emerged from lyric& Press in 2014. In 2019, they played the role of Earl of Kent in the Milkwood Theater’s production of King Lear. In their spare time, they enjoy urban flâneuring, chasing their cats in the backyard, and setting type and printing at the SF Center for the Book.

Michael Tod Edgerton is the author of Vitreous Hide (Lavender Ink: https://www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/vitreous-hide/?v=76cb0a18730b). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Coconut, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, EOAGH, Interim, New American Writing, Posit, and Sonora Review, among other journals. He holds an MFA from Brown University and a PhD from the University of Georgia. He teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Jose State University and lives with his husband in San Francisco. More info can be found on his website at https://michaeltodedgerton.blogspot.com/

Megan Breiseth is the author of the chapbook Zia (Mrs. Maybe Press), co-author of the chapbook the longer you stay here (Featherboard) and a full-length manuscript-in-progress. She works in higher ed and lives in Alameda, CA with her wife, son, and cats.

Alexandra Mattraw is the author of small siren and We fell into weather (Cultural Society, 2018 and March 2020, respectively), as well as several chapbooks, including flood psalm (Dancing Girl Press, 2017). A mother, critic, and ecofeminist, her poems and reviews have appeared in places including Denver Quarterly, The Poetry Project, VOLT, and The Volta. In San Francisco, she curates a reading and performance series called Lone Glen. Consider her books, and Zoom release events, set for 11 April and 21 April, at https://alexandramattraw.com/