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Alina Pleskova, Atlantic City, Cheburashka Collective, Murphy Writing, Murphy Writing of Stockton University, Noyes Arts Garage, Poetry, SJ Poets, South Jersey Poets Collective, Stockton University, Toska, What Urge Will Save Us, World Above, World Above Free Poetry Nights
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.