September 30th, 2023

POETRY READING

The presenting writers: 

Amy Raasch, Sarah Sophia Yanni, Patric Carroll, Leila Bilick, and Sara Ellen Fowler.

Amy Raasch is a writer, musician, actor, and media installation artist. Recent projects include theatrical multimedia show, The Animal Monologues, animated film CAT BIRD COYOTE, and album GIRLS GET COLD. Currently, an MFA candidate at Bennington Writing Seminars, she can occasionally be spotted in Venice walking a cat named after poet Theodore Roethke, on a leash.

Sarah Sophia Yanni is a Mexican-Egyptian writer, researcher & educator in Los Angeles. She was a Finalist for BOMB Magazine’s Poetry Contest, Poetry Online’s Launch Prize, the Hayden’s Ferry Review Inaugural Poetry Contest, & the Letras Latinas Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize A Best of the Net nominee, she is the author of the chapbook ternura / tenderness (Bottlecap Press) and her work can be found in SPECTRA Poets, Mizna, Pom Pom Lit, feelings, and others. She currently serves as Managing Editor of TQR, Poetry Editor of The Dry River, and hosts a monthly radio show called Portals.

Patrick Carroll is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. Solo exhibitions include Commonplacing, The Meeting (New York); Dungeness, Goldfinch (Chicago); Reading, Giovanni’s Room (Los Angeles); Memoriam, Fuji Textile Week (Fujiyoshida) and JW Anderson’s Men’s S/S 2023 (Milan). Group exhibitions include Lilac, Moonbeam, and Heavenly Blue, Goldfinch (Chicago); My Whole World, Baader-Meinhof (Omaha) and Any distance between us, RISD Museum (Providence).

Leila Bilick’s poetry has appeared in the American Literary Review, Lilith Magazine, the Coachella Review, Book of Matches, and Soundings East, among others. She has an MA in English from UMass Boston, and lives in West Hollywood with her two daughters.

Sara Ellen Fowler’s writing has appeared in The Offing, X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal, Interim, and Gigantic Sequins, among others. In 2023, she was awarded a California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. Sara holds a BFA in Sculpture from Art Center College of Design and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside. Her first book, Two Signatures, has been selected by Joan Naviyuk Kane for the 2023 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from the University of Utah Press.