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. Much of her work explores the contention between identity and home. Her work has been featured in various journals including Electric Literature, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Rumpus, and Taco Bell Quarterly. Her debut collection WORM GIRL is forthcoming in Spring 2027.

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Z. Yasmin Waheed is a poet, editor, and arts administrator based in South Florida. She was O, Miami’s 2024-2026 Poetry Coalition Fellow via the Academy of American Poets, a 2025 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship finalist, and a 2026 Summer Scholar at the Fine Arts Work Center. 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.