Today You Are Perfect - Yapp, Glass, Montero
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: Margaret Yapp, Joan Kwon Glass, Fia Montero
Date & Time: Tuesday, February 22, 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! Read more of Margaret Yapp's work on her website HERE. You can order Joan Kwon Glass's book Night Swim HERE. Enjoy a sample of Fia Montero's work HERE.
Margaret Yapp
Margaret Yapp is from Iowa City, Iowa, where she lives and works. Her poems have appeared in Post Road Magazine, Cutleaf Journal, New Delta Review, Peach Mag and elsewhere. Margaret is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. You can find her @bigbabymarg and margaretyapp.com.
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.
Fia Montero
Fia Montero is an autistic poet based in Des Moines, Iowa. She holds a BFA in art and design from Iowa State University, and a BSHS in pre-medical studies from Mercy College of Health Sciences. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in West Trestle Review, Literary Mama, Rogue Agent, Passengers Journal, and Thimble Literary Magazine.
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