All readings are held in person and live streamed on Instagram and Facebook.

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Bleah Patterson

is a queer, southern poet from Texas. A current PhD student at the University of North Texas, much of her work explores the contention between identity and home. Her creative and academic work has been featured or is forthcoming in various journals including Write or Die, Electric Literature, Pinch, Grist, The Laurel Review, Phoebe Literature, The Rumpus, and Taco Bell Quarterly.

Z. Yasmin Waheed

is a poet, editor, and arts administrator based in South Florida. She is O, Miami’s Poetry Coalition Fellow via the Academy of American Poets and was a 2025 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship finalist. She strives to explore material culture, memory, and the spaces the historical and contemporary intersect through her work, which can be found in places like Burnaway, The Baltimore Review, AAWW’s The Margins, and a forthcoming anthology from the University Press of Florida.