Echoes of Resistance
Meet our featured readers.
Hi Writers!
We can't wait to hold space with you next Thursday, June 27th at our open mic, Echoes of Resistance.
You can still register and sign up to read (5 minutes per reader). We especially invite queer writers of color and native New Yorkers to read at this event.
Here are the details:
Echoes of Resistance, a Writers Club Open Mic
📅 Date: Thursday, June 27th
🕕 Time — Doors: 6:30 PM, Reading begins at 7:00 PM
🎉 Open Mic Location: Artshack Cafe (1127 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn)
Space is limited. RSVP is required.
Without further ado, let's meet our readers:
Solaris J. Capehart is a Liberian poet and abolitionist educator based in Bed-Stuy. Black, queer, and concerned with freedom, they use storytelling as a catalyst for conversation, education, and community organizing.
This is not their final form.
Yasmin Almokhamad-Sarkisian is a Syrian-Armenian illustrator, writer and creative producer whose art is deeply influenced by the juxtaposition of being SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) and queer in the West. Their experience in the incarceral system, and having worked in communities with undocumented folks, marginalized youth, and a Free Palestine has served as a foundation for their work.
Yi Wei is a writer unconditionally supportive of Palestinian resistance and liberation. Her work has been awarded or placed for the Frontier OPEN, the Lois Morrell Poetry Prize, the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, the Sappho Prize for Women Poets, Best of the Net, the Lorraine Williams Poetry Prize, and the Writer in the Public Schools fellowship at NYU. Yi currently edits at Asian American Writers' Workshop.
Nadia Khayrallah is a dance artist, writer, admin, (dis)content creator and community (dis)organizer, rooted in history and fantasy, form and groove, esoterica and common sense. Their work has recently been presented with Arab American National Museum, Time & Space Limited, CUE Art Gallery, and Spark Theatre Festival. They can be found yelling at institutions and writing poems in the notes app.
Angela Folasade is a Brooklyn and Detroit based writer who loves hibiscus, mangosteen, and is presently obsessed with bulls and the daily routines of ladybugs. A recent graduate of Pratt Institute's MFA in Creative Writing, their present body of work is a series of letters to the descendants of indigo dyers, particularly in the Black/African diaspora. Their chaplet Cobblestone Lined Walkways Expect Sprawling Grass Between Them (Belladonna* Collaborative, 2023) considers their body in relation to society and the natural world.