CHRISTINA OLIVARES READS WITH BELLADONNA!

You are invited to a Poetry Reading:

June 4, 6-8pm
la casa azul bookstore
143 E. 103rd Street 
New York, NY 10029

JP Howard aka Juliet P. Howard is a Cave Canem graduate fellow. Her debut collection of poetry SAY/MIRROR was published by The Operating System (2015). She curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon (WWBPS), a forum offering women writers at all levels a venue to come together in a positive and supportive  space in NY. JP is an alum of the VONA/Voices Writers Workshop, as well as a Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging LGBT Voices Fellow. She was a finalist in The Feminist Wire’s 2014 1st Poetry Contest. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Feminist Wire, Split this Rock, Nepantla: A Journal for Queer Poets of Color, Muzzle Magazine, Adrienne: A Poetry Journal of Queer Women, The Best American Poetry Blog, MiPOesias, The Mom Egg, Talking Writing and Connotation Press, among others. JP holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York. 

Christina Olivares is the author of No Map of the Earth Includes Stars, winner of the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press Book Prize, and Petition, winner of YesYes Books' 2014 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Competition. Olivares earned her MFA in Poetry from CUNY Brooklyn and her BA from Amherst College. She is the recipient of two Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grants (2014 and 2010) and a 2008-2009 Teachers and Writers Collaborative Fellowship. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2013 and 2008). She has participated in Bread Loaf and VONA writing workshops. Her work has been published in PALABRA,Tidal Basin Review, decomP,  and other journals. She is a native of the Bronx and of Harlem.

Born in Bloomington, Illinois, Tonya M. Foster is more accurately a native of a home that no longer is what it was (as always), a home made less familiar by time, by water, by natural calamities and socially orchestrated disasters. Home=New Orleans, or rather N’Awlins—that dike-enclosed fabrication caught among the Mississippi River, Lake Pontchartrain, and the Gulf of Mexico, three tongues that should dictate the wills and ways of the city. Now residing in Harlem, she is a co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art and a PhD candidate at the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she studies the poetics of place.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.