Today You Are Perfect - Vella, Rose, Alexander
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.
Hosted by Jennifer MacBain-Stephens // Sponsored by Iowa City Poetry
The Lineup: L. Vella, Adrienne Rose, Skylar Alexander
Date & Time: Oct 26, 2022, 7:00-8:00 pm CT (5 PT, 6 MT, 8 ET)
Platform: Live Zoom Webinar. Click the button below to register and receive the link.
Support Poets:
Read L. Vella's work in Black Warrior Review HERE.
Enjoy Ancient Exchanges, the literary journal for which Adrienne Rose is Founding Editor, HERE.
You can order Skylar Alexander's new book, Searching for Petco (Forklift Books 2022), HERE.
L. Vella
L. Vella has poems that have appeared in or are forthcoming from DIAGRAM, Bat City Review, Black Warrior Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Sugar House Review, and others. She is an editor for Ancient Exchanges, an online journal for literary translations of ancient texts. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and now lives in Iowa City with a tiny flock of chickens, a sweet little pup, and her favorite person.
Adrienne Rose
Adrienne Rose has published one chapbook and numerous poems and translations in US and Canadian journals. She is the founding editor of Ancient Exchanges journal of translation, and she directs the undergraduate Translation program at the University of Iowa.
Skylar Alexander
Skylar Alexander is the author of Searching for Petco (Forklift Books, 2022; edited by Matt Hart), a book which the poet Adam Fell called “a mutant blast radius of righteous Midwestern anger and tender observation.” Her writing has appeared in many places, including Cutbank,
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