Inter|Act Spoken Word Open Mic with Farnaz Fatemi and Nancy Miller Gomez

Are you ready to get your poetry on? Join us on March 18, 2025 at Satori Arts for Inter|Act, a FREE spoken word open mic night, from 7-9 pm. We are thrilled to offer this special event with two Santa Cruz poet laureates joining us: outgoing Farnaz Fatemi and incoming Nancy Miller Gomez.

Farnaz Fatemi is an Iranian American writer and editor. Her debut book, Sister Tongue زبان خواهر , was published in Sept 2022. It won the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, selected by Tracy K. Smith, from Kent State University Press, and received a Starred Review from Publisher’s Weeklyand an Honorable Mention from the Foreword Indies.Farnaz was Santa Cruz County’s Poet Laureate for 2023 and 2024. She is a founding member of The Hive Poetry Collective.

Nancy Miller Gomez is the author of Inconsolable Objects (YesYes Books) and Punishment (Rattle Chapbook Series). Gomez co-founded an organization (poetryinthejails.org) that provides writing workshops to incarcerated women and men and has taught poetry in Salinas Valley State Pr*son, the Santa Cruz County Jails, the Juvenile Hall and as part of Cornell University’s Pr*son Education Program. As the Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, she is cooking up a flurry of projects to spread poetry into every corner of Santa Cruz.

Come share your spoken word work or poetry with the community, or come out to support our local poets! Sign up to read starting at 6:30 pm. For more information, visit www.maginei.com/openmic.

1st and 3rd Tuesdays.

Free.

Satori Arts, 815 Almar, #9, Santa Cruz (warehouse building near the back, follow signs)

Host or Publisher Kimberley Bermender