Celebrate National Poetry Month in April with us!
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Smith College Club of Los Angeles presents an evening of poetry and discussion with a diverse group of Smith alum poets. They will each read a few of their works and then we will have a moderated Q&A discussion with the group. Attendees will have an opportunity to pose their own questions as well.
For accessibility, a PDF and Google document of their works will be shared in advance with registrants and during the event in the Zoom chat.
We look forward to seeing you!
Our Speakers
Caroline Mei-Lin Mar '05
Caroline Mei-Lin Mar (she/her) is the author of Special Education (Texas Review Press, 2020). A high school health educator in San Francisco, she is doing her best to keep her gentrifying hometown queer and creative. Carrie is a graduate of Smith College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is an alumna of VONA, a member of Rabble Collective, and a board member of Friends of Writers. She has been granted residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Ragdale. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Nimrod, Storyscape, Pinwheel, and Anomaly, among others.
Janelle Tan '18
Janelle Tan (she/her) was born in Singapore and lives in Brooklyn. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Mass Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, No Tokens, Winter Tangerine, The Southampton Review, Nat. Brut, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from NYU, where she was Web Editor for Washington Square Review. She is a Brooklyn Poets fellow and Assistant Interviews Editor at Singapore Unbound. http://janelle-tan.com/
Miles Collins-Sibley '16
Miles A.M. Collins-Sibley (he/him, they/them) is Black, queer, trans, and sick. He writes poetry to talk to ghosts and to fall in love. Miles graduated from Smith College in 2016, received his MFA in Poetry from UMass-Amherst’s program for Poets & Writers in 2019, and currently studies Black Communist labor history as a PhD student in UMass-Amherst's W.E.B. DuBois Department of African American Studies. You can find his weird, queer poems in "We Want it All: An Anthology of Trans Radical Poetics" from Nightboat Books, Black Warrior Review, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal, among others.
Links to work available online:
https://www.peachmgzn.com/miles-collins-sibley
https://bwr.ua.edu/46-1-feature-the-saltwater-african-says/
https://catapult.co/stories/mirror-stage-poetry-miles-am-collins-sibley
https://www.crabfatmagazine.com/article/miles-a-m-collins-sibley/
https://tinderboxpoetry.com/observation-im-starting-to-look-like-my-dead-cousin-mikey
Meredith Nnoka '14
Meredith Nnoka (she/her) is a Chicago-based writer, educator, and carceral justice advocate originally from Southern Maryland. She has a BA from Smith and an MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, both in Africana studies. Her work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, HEArt Online, The Collapsar, and elsewhere. Her poem “Prelude to Your Leaving” was nominated for inclusion in the 2017 Best of the Net anthology. Her first chapbook, A Hunger Called Music: A Verse History of Black Music, won C&R Press’s 2016 Winter Soup Bowl Competition, and can be found online here: https://www.crpress.org/shop/a-hunger-called-music/.
Here's a link to the aforementioned poem: https://thecollapsar.org/a-poem-by-meredith-nnoka
Questions? Email rsvp@smithclubla.org
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Please note this is a private event for the Smith College Club of Los Angeles. The event is not open to the public.