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Join us Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at 7:00pm EDT at Stockton University’s Noyes Arts Garage (2200 Fairmount Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401) or online via Zoom (https://stockton.zoom.us/j/95192100891?pwd=c0had1pIVkFjMVJwZ2VHYmwwaVdSUT09).

May’s featured reader is Alina Pleskova.

Alina Pleskova is Moscow-born, Philadelphia-based poet & editor. Her first full-length poetry collection, Toska, was published by Deep Vellum in June 2023 & is a finalist for a 2024 Lambda Literary Award. She is a recipient of the Leeway Foundation’s 2020 Art & Change & 2022 Window of Opportunity grants, & was a writer-in-residence at The Betsy Hotel in Miami, FL in August 2023. Alina has hosted workshops, events, & panels for organizations including Apiary, Blue Stoop, The Head & The Hand, Rutgers University, & the Institute of Contemporary Art, & served as Programming Coordinator for the 215 Festival. Her chapbook, What Urge Will Save Us, was published by Spooky Girlfriend Press in 2017. In addition, Alina is a founder of the Cheburashka Collective, a group of women & nonbinary writers who are emigres/first-gen/refugees from the Soviet diaspora, and co-edits bedfellows, a biannual literary magazine topically focused on desire & intimacy. Learn more about Alina by visiting her website at https://www.alinapleskova.com/.

World Above open mic participants are invited to read one poem or prose piece that is less than two minutes long. Please arrive in-person or online by 6:50pm to secure a spot in the Open.

All participants will receive a free take-home writing prompt penned by Barbara Daniels.

Please invite your friends to this event, join and share it on Facebook, and link our website (https://sjpoets.wordpress.com) to your social media.

Questions about this series or to recommend or apply to be a featured poet, please contact Emari DiGiorgio (emari@murphywriting.com).

World Above is also made possible with support from Murphy Writing of Stockton University and The Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University.