Join us for an engaging discussion with esteemed authors and poets Alexa Patrick and Roya Marsh at our shared event space, Heyground Harlem! We'll be hosting Alexa Patrick to discuss her new poetry book, Remedies for Disappearing, alongside Bronx author of dayliGht, Roya Marsh. We've also invited special literary guests Cortney Lamar Charleston, Mike Rosen, and Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr. to the conversation to talk poetry, writing, and answer some of your questions! RSVP to reserve your space at this exclusive event brought to you by The Bronx is Reading and get to witness an inspiring literary discussion.
About the speakers:
Alexa Patrick (she/her) is a vocalist and poet from Connecticut. She is the author of Remedies for Disappearing (Haymarket Books 2023) and holds fellowships from Cave Canem, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and more. In spring 2023, Alexa made her stage production debut as Un/Sung in the opera We Shall Not Be Moved, (dire. Bill T. Jones). You may find her work in publications including Adroit, CRWN Magazine, and The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic. Visit alexapatrick.com for more.
Bronx, New York native, Roya Marsh is a poet, performer, educator and activist. She is the author of dayliGht, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry. She works feverishly toward Queer liberation and dismantling white supremacy. Roya is the co-founder of the Bronx Poet Laureate, a PEN America Emerging Voices Mentor, Lambda Literary faculty and the awardee of the Lotus Foundation Prize for poetry. Roya’s work has been featured in numerous places including, The Academy of American Poets, Poetry Magazine, the Village Voice, Nylon Magazine, Huffington Post, The Root, Button Poetry, BAM, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Apollo Theater, Lexus Verses and Flow, On One with Angela Rye, BET and The BreakBeat Poets Vol 2: Black Girl Magic(Haymarket 2018).
Special Guests:
Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of Telepathologies (Saturnalia Books, 2017) and Doppelgangbanger (Haymarket Books, 2021). He was awarded a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and he has also received fellowships from Cave Canem and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, his poems have appeared in POETRY, The Nation, The Atlantic, The American Poetry Review, Granta and elsewhere. He serves as a poetry editor at The Rumpus and on the editorial board at Alice James Books.
With over one million views, Mike Rosen's stories and poems work to change the narrative around mental health, addiction, pornography, and masculinity. Mike has performed on three continents, and works as a mental health counselor in the Catskill Mountains.
Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr. is a Sierra Leonean storyteller. He is a Peabody award-winning Journalist, a Poet, and an Actor. He is the co-creator and host of the podcast, Resistance, a groundbreaking show the The New Yorker describes as “beautiful work about acts of resistance large and small.” Saidu’s work closely follows the joy, hope, and resilience of the Black experience from Freetown, Sierra Leone to Brooklyn, New York
About the event:
Date: Friday, Oct. 20th, 2023
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Heyground Harlem, 461 W 126th St #5W, New York, NY 10027
Make sure to RSVP to this event to join us in celebrating these incredible artists. We hope to see you there!