In our monthly reading series, "Today You Are Perfect," we bring poets and artists and listeners together to share their words. Afterward, everyone has the option to participate in a small question and answer session.
The Lineup: Samantha Duncan, Tahjia Brantley, Fox Henry Frazier
Date & Time: January 31, 7:00-8:00 pm CT (5 PT, 6 MT, 8 ET)
Platform: Live Zoom Webinar. Register below to receive the link.
Support Poets:
Dive into an interview with Samantha Duncan at Agape Editions.
Explore Tahjia Brantley's multimedia and multisensory publication Dyke's Day, a Holigay.
Learn more about Fox Henry Frazier's latest collection, Weeping in the Tropical Moonlit Night Because Nobody’s Told Her (Yes Poetry, 2022).
Samantha Duncan is the author of four poetry chapbooks, including Playing One on TV (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2018) and The Birth Creatures (Agape Editions, 2016), and her work has appeared in BOAAT, SWWIM, Alice Says Go Fuck Yourself, Meridian, and The Pinch. She lives in Houston.
Tahjia Brantley is a Jersey born poetess living in Iowa City. She is a Workshopper, a Maharishi dropout, and a waitress.
Fox Henry Frazier is the author of two books of poetry, essay, and visual art: Weeping in the Tropical Moonlit Night Because Nobody’s Told Her (Yes Poetry, 2022) and Raven King (Yes Poetry, 2021). Her first full-length book of poetry, The Hydromantic Histories (Bright Hill Press, 2015), was selected by Vermont Poet Laureate Chard deNiord as the recipient of the Bright Hill Press Poetry Award. Her chapbook Exodus in X Minor (2014) won the Sundress Publications Chapbook Prize, and her chapbook Like Ash in the Air After Something Has Burned (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2017) was nominated for an Elgin Award. Fox holds an MFA from Columbia University, and a PhD from the University of Southern California, where she was also a Provost’s Fellow. She created and co-runs Agape Editions, Alice Says Go Fuck Yourself, and the Favorite Poems reading series. Fox lives in upstate New York with her daughter, her dogs, her gardens, and her ghosts.
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