Pages on Stages CLI HONORS
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🎤 Pages on Stages: Tommy Domino Honors 🎤
Students, alumni, neighbors, poets, CLIQUÉ family and friends—this one is for Tommy!
Join us for a special night honoring Tommy Domino alias “Big Six”—poet, professor, mentor, and community staple who has spent years showing up for writers and pouring into our literary communities.
Featuring poetry, stories, music, and plenty of love as we celebrate the work, impact, and presence of someone who has given so much to our community. Come help us fill the room for someone who has filled so many rooms for us.
Tommy Domino, aka “Big Six,” is a poet, educator, author, producer, and longtime fixture in Southern California’s literary community. He has been a member of the Stillwater Writers Collective since 2012 and Watts Writers Workshop II since 2018, and has taught Community Literature Initiative’s Long Beach Poetry Cohort since 2020, earning CLI Teacher of the Year in 2022.
His debut collection, Switches, Hot Wheel Tracks & Extension Cords, was published by World Stage Press in 2018, followed by Closer in the Rearview in 2025. His work has taken him from the House of Blues and Melrose Trading Post’s Juneteenth Celebration to Slanguage on Urban Soul TV and the documentary Brand New Day, nominated at the 2023 Glendale International Film Festival.
Tommy was the 2025 Beach City Writers Conference keynote speaker and continues to build spaces for poetry throughout Long Beach. He hosts The Griot Café open mic at Shades of Afrika, curates a monthly jazz and spoken-word series at BLU Art & Wellness Center, and serves as Co-Executive Producer of the Long Beach Poetry Slam: Clash of the Titans II.
Where is it happening?
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USD 10.00
