Today You Are Perfect - Glass, Pham, Jackson

Today You Are Perfect - Glass, Pham, Jackson

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: Joan Kwon Glass, Alix Pham, Marquise Jackson

Date & Time: Tuesday, March 29, 7:00-8:00 pm CT

Platform: Zoom Webinar. After registering below, the link will be automatically emailed to you.

Donation: Please support the poets! You can order Joan Kwon Glass's book Night Swim HERE. Read Alixen Pham's poem Some Things Are Unforgettable and listen to Ada Limon talk about it on the Slow Down HERE. Enjoy Marquise Jackson's book I Forget I'm Only Human after ordering it HERE.

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Joan Kwon Glass

Joan Kwon Glass

Joan Kwon Glass’s first full-length poetry collection, “Night Swim,” won the 2021 Diode Poetry Prize, her micro-chapbook “Bloodline” won the 2021 Harbor Review Washburn Prize and her chapbook “How to Make Pancakes for a Dead Boy” won the Harbor Editions Marginalia Contest. She is also the author of the chapbook “If Rust Can Grow on the Moon” (Milk & Cake Press, 2022). In 2021 she was a Runner-Up for the Sundress Publications Chapbook Contest and a finalist for the Harbor Review Editor’s Prize, the Subnivean Award & the Lumiere Review Writing Contest. Joan holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Smith College, serves as poet laureate for the city of Milford, CT and as Poetry Co-Editor for West Trestle Review. She has spent the past 20 years as an educator in the Connecticut public schools. Her poems have recently been published or are forthcoming in Diode, The Night Heron Barks, The Rupture, Nelle, Rattle, Pirene’s Fountain, Dialogist, South Florida Poetry Journal, Honey Literary, Mom Egg, Rust & Moth, Lantern Review & many others. Joan has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net. She tweets @joanpglass & you may read her previously published work at www.joankwonglass.com.

Alixen Pham

Alixen Pham

Alixen Pham is published with The Slowdown, New York Quarterly, Salamander, Gyroscope Review, DiaCRITICS, Soul-Lit, Women Who        Submit’s Anthology: Gathering, and Brooklyn Poets as Poet of the Week. She has been nominated for Best of the Net Anthology 2020-2021. She leads the Westside Los Angeles chapter of Women Who Submit, a volunteer-run literary organization supporting and nurturing women and non-binary writers. She is the recipient of The City of West Hollywood Artist Grant 2022, Brooklyn Poets Mentorship Program 2022 and 2020 Fellowship and others. She fusion bakes between writing poetry, fiction and nonfiction work. Her Twitter / Instagram @AlixenPham. 

Marquise Jackson

Marquise Jackson

Chicago native and University of Iowa alum, Marquise Jackson is a poet unafraid of the vulnerable. Whether on stage or on the page, he exhibits intense care for the world of poetry. His inspiration is derived from creativity, itself. It is his belief that creativity is a spiritual practice. And that healing, wisdom, and love have no choice, but to rise from it.

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