Poetry Night! At the Library (Reading & Open Mic)

This event is in-person.

Come join us for a lovely night of poetry! Witness contemporary, groundbreaking work by featured poets Stephanie Choi, Jason B. Crawford, and Saba Keramati, and stay for an open mic afterwards to share your own work or hear from others. Signups for the open mic are first come, first served, and doors will open at 5:45.

More about our featured guests:

Stephanie Choi’s poems appear in Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Electric Literature, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. She is currently the poet-in-residence at Sewanee: The University of the South. Her debut collection, The Lengest Neoi, was selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the 2023 Iowa Poetry Prize.

jason b. crawford is a writer born in Washington DC, raised in Lansing, MI. Their debut Full-Length Year of the Unicorn Kidz is out from Sundress Publications. They are a 2023 Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices fellow. Their second collection, YEET! is forthcoming from Omnidawn Publishing in 2025.

Saba Keramati is a Chinese-Iranian writer from California. Her debut poetry collection, Self-Mythology, selected by Patricia Smith was released in April 2024. She is the poetry editor for Sundog Lit.

Host or Publisher Hudson Park Library