Margin Shift Presents: July 21, 2022

Coming to you from the ancestral and physical homeland of the Duwamish, Muckleshoot, and other Coast Salish tribes, we're bringing that 3rd Thursday magic once again to Belltown

This reading will take place at Common Area Maintenance (2125 2nd Ave)

And in your living spaces via our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MarginShift/live

We'll open the doors at 6:30 and start the reading/livestream at 7pm

Depending on Covid case-counts, we may ask people to mask, so please bring yours (though masks will also be provided)

Check out this month's lineup:

Jasmine Lomax (she/her) is an educator, poet, performer, and events coordinator at Hugo House in Seattle, WA. She received her MFA from Spalding University and has been or will be featured in: Fourth River Review, The Sante Fe Literary Review, Peach Velvet Mag, Sundress Publications, and Winter Tangerine. Jasmine’s first book, I Am The Final Girl, is in a furious state of being made.

When Jasmine isn’t busy ticking away at the computer, she enjoys reading, swimming, tending to her spiritual studies, and the occasional bout of crying over fictional characters with her fiancé'.

To stay up to date with Jasmine’s latest, visit her at sarahjasminelomax.com

Teresa Carmody is author of The Reconception of Marie and Maison Femme: a fiction. Her writing has appeared in LitHub, Entropy, Autofocus Lit, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Collagist, Diagram and more. A co-founding editor of Les Figues Press in Los Angeles, she currently lives in Florida where she teaches in and directs Stetson University’s low-residency MFA program.

Buy her books via Bookshop at: https://bookshop.org/contributor_profiles/95

Irving Ayala was born in Cojutepeque, El Salvador. Growing up, he was fascinated with storytelling and poetry, and this interest led to some early exposure to reading since his mother keep feeding him books as gifts. Later, at the age of 15 Ayala migrated to the United States to the state of Virginia. He completed his bachelors in Benedictine College and is currently a Spanish teacher. Irving explores the cycle of immigration and their repetition through history in his first publication with Brill, Critical Storytelling from the Borderlands will be available on July 21st, 2022.

Stefania Heim is author of the poetry collections Hour Book (Ahsahta Press, 2019) and A Table That Goes On for Miles (Switchback Books, 2014). She is the translator of Geometry of Shadows: Giorgio de Chirico's Italian Poems (A Public Space Books, 2019) and the novel by de Chirico, Mr. Dudron (forthcoming), for which she received an NEA Translation Fellowship. A founding editor of Circumference: Poetry in Translation and former poetry editor of Boston Review, she is an associate professor of Literature at Western Washington University.

Buy her books via Bookshop at:https://bookshop.org/contributors/stefania-heim

Prageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019), Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013), Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007), The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004), which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress, 2000). She is the founder of Thinking Its Presence, an interdisciplinary conference on race, creative writing, and artistic and aesthetic practices. Her recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Best American Poetry 2022, The New Republic, and Yale Review. She is the Henry G. Lee '37 Professor of English at Pomona College.

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