The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Presents: Chrissy Hernandez & Brandi Kary

Name: The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Presents: Chrissy Hernandez & Brandi Kary
Start: 2025-10-11T17:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-11T18:30:00-07:00
Location: Pacific Grove Public Library

Schedule

Sat Oct 11 2025 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm

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Location

Pacific Grove Public Library | Pacific Grove, CA

The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium welcomes you to enjoy a free evening of poetry featuring Chrissy Hernandez and Brandi Kary on Saturday, October 11 at 5:30 PM at the Pacific Grove Public Library (550 Central Ave., PG, 93950).
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Dr. Chrissy Hernandez is a writer, organizer, and educator from Salinas / Prunedale. After working as a spoken-word teaching artist for over a decade in a Bay Area continuation high school, public arts high school, juvenile hall, middle school, and other community sites, she is now an associate professor of service learning and social action at California State University, Monterey Bay. Her scholarship is invested in the spaces of possibility when bridging abolition feminism and education justice, and has been published in Teachers College Record, Multicultural Perspectives, and the Handbook of Critical Approaches to Policy and Practice with Routledge. She is the managing editor of Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators with AK Press.
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Brandi Kary is a mom, educator, coach, and poet who lives in Monterey. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Monterey Peninsula College. She has a lot of formal education and a bunch of degrees and certifications, but none of that compares to what her students have taught her over the years. Her poetry has appeared in Wayne Literary Review, Rue Scribe, Virga Magazine, Red River Review, the Voices Project, Blue Pepper, Dead Snakes, and Homestead Review. Aside from loving words, Brandi loves to lift heavy things. She’s a competitive powerlifter, and currently holds state, national, and world records for benchpress and deadlift.
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Our next reading will be held on November 8, featuring Pilar Graham and Sara Michas-Martin.

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The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium seeks to showcase the finest talents of the diverse Central Coast literary community, from Big Sur to Santa Cruz to the Salinas Valley and beyond. Free readings are held on the second Saturday of each month at the Pacific Grove Public Library. All are welcome. Follow us on Facebook, or contact Kent Leatham ([email protected]) for more information. This series is graciously co-sponsored by the Whitney Latham Lechich Poetry Trust.