You are invited to join us for our May 31st event on Zoom at 2 pm ET.
Please follow the directions below, completing both steps at least two days before the reading to avoid delays entering the meeting room. Note the order of the open mic follows the order of signup. Sign up early to read early in the program. Last-minute signup means you will read at the end of the program.
Our featured readers are:
Allia Abdullah-Matta
Daniel Meltz
Jacqueline Johnson
Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contribution keeps our annual anthology in print. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.
Please follow these instructions:
Step 1: Make your $5 contribution:
(Note that your contribution is not refundable.)
Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting:
Step 3: After making your contribution and completing your registration, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.
Looking forward to seeing you at our May 31st event!
Allia Abdullah-Matta is an Associate Professor of English at CUNY LaGuardia Community College. As an educator and writer, she strives to address the power and politics of creative expression and voice as essential instruments of social justice practice and transformation. She was the co-recipient of The City College of New York (CCNY)The Jerome Lowell DeJur Prize in Poetry (2018). Her poetry has been published in Newtown Literary, Promethean, Marsh Hawk Review, Mom Egg Review Vox, and Global City Review.
Daniel Meltz was raised in the low-rent reaches of Jersey, 16 minutes from Times Square, and has lived in Manhattan for fifty years. He’s a retired technical writer and teacher of Deaf young people, with a B.A. from Columbia (no honors). Both his first book of poems, It Wasn’t Easy to Reach You, from Trail to Table, and his first novel, Rabbis of the Garden State, from Rattling Good Yarns, have been published in 2025.
Jacqueline Johnson is a multi-disciplined artist creating in both poetry, fiction writing and fiber arts. She is the author of A Woman’s Season, Main Street Rag Press and A Gathering of Mother Tongues, published by White Pine Press. Her work has appeared in: This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, Dear Yusef, Essays, Letters, and Poems for and About One Mr. Komunyakaa, Baby Suggs and A Purple Butterfly. She is a graduate of New York University and the City University of New York. A native of Philadelphia, PA., she resides in Brooklyn, New York.