Mestizo-Curtis Park Virtual Reading

Join Lighthouse and Hey Hue for a Virtual Reading and Community Writing Event! Participants will be able to submit their work for potential inclusion on a sculpture in Mestizo Curtis Park, alongside the works of poets Carolina Ebeid, J. Michael Martinez, Sueyuen Juliette Lee, and Serena Chopra.

FREE

5:00-5:05: Welcome from Lighthouse
5:05-5:10: Brief words from Josh Ware about project and poets
5:10-5:50: Readings by poets (10 min each) 
5:50-6:10: Q&A/Discussion with group
6:10-6:25: Submission info and writing prompt by Lighthouse
6:25-6:30: Thank you to attendees from Lighthouse

This event is in conjunction with Swim Club, a P.S. You Are Here Project

Joshua Ware is an artist and poet who was born in Cleveland, OH. His visual art has appeared in exhibitions in Denver, Boulder, Santa Ana, and the Scandinavian Collage Museum in Berkåk, Norway. Reproductions of his work have been used for book and magazine covers and featured in print and online journals. He is also the author of Unwanted Invention / Vargtimmen and Homage to Homage to Homage to Creeley, both published by Furniture Press Books. His work has appeared in magazines such as American Letters & Commentary, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Gulf Coast, and New American Writing. He currently lives in Denver, CO.

Carolina Ebeid was born in West New York, NJ and is the author of You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior (Noemi Press, 2016). She holds a PhD from the University of Denver, and has won fellowships from CantoMundo, the Stadler Center, the NEA, as well as a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. She helps edit poetry at The Rumpus, and together with her husband, poet, Jeffrey Pethybridge, and their son Patrick, helps create the online zine Visible Binary. This spring she is teaching at University of Texas, El Paso in the bilingual MFA program, the rest of the year she teaches at Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop in Denver. 

Longlisted for the National Book Award, selected for the National Poetry Series and a recipient of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, J. Michael Martinez is the author of three collections of poetry. His writings have been anthologized in Ahsahta Press’ The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, Rescue Press’ The New Census: 40 American Poets, and Counterpath Press’ Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing. Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry at St. Lawrence University, J. Michael lives in upstate NY. He was born in Greeley, CO.

Sueyeun Juliette Lee is the author of five books of poetry, most recently SOLAR MAXIMUM (Futurepoem, 2015) and No Comet, That Serpent in the Sky Means Noise (Kore Press, 2017). She was a 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts for Literature (Poetry), a featured artist for Chicago’s 2015 city-wide performance arts festival IN>TIME, and a commissioned artist for the Asian Arts Initiative‘s 25th Anniversary series, (ex)CHANGE: History Place Presence. Lee reviews contemporary poetry for The Constant Critic, a project of Fence Books and edited COROLLARY PRESS, a chapbook series dedicated to innovative multi-ethnic writing. She lives in Denver, CO where she works in the non-profit sector, promoting social and economic justice. 

Serena Chopra is a teacher, writer, dancer, filmmaker, soundscape designer, and a visual and performance artist. She has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Denver, an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and was a Kundiman Fellow, a 2011-2013 Redline artist in Residence, a 2016-2017 Fulbright Scholar (Bangalore, India), and has received a month-long artist residency at Understudy Denver for September 2020. She has two books, This Human (Coconut Books 2013) and Ic (Horse Less Press 2017), as well as two films, Dogana/Chapti (2018, winner of ArtHyve's Archives as Muse Film grant, Official Selection at Frameline43, Oregon Documentary Film Festival and Seattle Queer Film Festival) and Mother Ghosting (2018). She was an 8-year company member with Evolving Doors Dance and was recently a featured artist in Harper's Bazaar (India) as well as in the Denver Westword’s “100 Colorado Creatives.” She has recent publications in Foglifter and Matters of Feminist Practice (Belladonna). In October 2020, Serena will be co-directing No Place to Go an artist-made haunted house with Kate Speer and Frankie Toan. Serena is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Seattle University.