Join us Friday, December 16th, at 7:00 PM EDT for the Office Hours Fall 2022 Showcase Reading, a virtual event taking place online only. Our current fellows will give a brief reading in celebration of another strong semester of poetry making, community building, and surviving in difficult creative times.

Suggested donation to benefit Office Hours Poetry Workshop: $5 – $10

You can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite.

All are welcome to join, with or without a donation.

Registration on Eventbrite required to join this event on Zoom.

Once you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the Eventbrite page and click on “Access link” (beneath “When and Where/location/online”). But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered.

Closed-captioning will be available.

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Also live-streaming at youtube.com/@bgsqd

Emily Hockaday’s [in person reader] first full-length collection, Naming the Ghost, is out from Cornerstone Press. Her second collection In a Body is scheduled for October 2023 with Harbor Editions. She has had work in a variety of anthologies and print and online journals. She tweets @E_Hockaday.

Shakeema Smalls [virtual reader] is from Georgetown, South Carolina.  Her work has been published in a variety of outlets including Blackberry: A Magazine, Radius Lit, Free Black Space, Vinyl Poetry and Prose, and Rigorous, among others, with upcoming work in Hayden’s Ferry and Emergent Literary. She was a Tin House 2022 Winter Workshop participant and a 2022 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow.

Carrie Hohmann Campbell [virtual reader] lives on a small farm in northwest Pennsylvania with her family. Her second chapbook Drawn to Extinction was published by Finishing Line Press. She teaches creative writing as an Assistant Professor of English at PennWest University. Contact her at carriehohmanncampbell.com. 

James Fujinami Moore‘s [virtual reader] debut collection is Indecent Hours (Four Way Books, 2022). His work has appeared in Barrow Street’s 4×2, The Brooklyn Rail, Guesthouse, The Margins, the Pacifica Literary Review, and Prelude. He has received support from Poets House, Bread Loaf, and the Frost Place, and received his MFA from Hunter College in 2016. He lives in Los Angeles.

Avia Tadmor [in person reader] was born in Jerusalem. Her poetry received support from Yaddo, the Rona Jaffe Foundation/ Bread Loaf, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The New Republic, New England Review, The Adroit Journal, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. Avia was named a 2022 Gregory Djanikian Scholar by the Adroit Journal.

Ashley Harris [virtual reader] is from Manassas, Virginia. Her work has been published in  Aquas de pozos, Yellow Chair Review and Cartridge Literary magazine. She currently has a chapbook entitled “If the Hero of Time was Black”, published by Weasel Press. Her work was also present in the anthologies  For all the songs we sing and The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superheroes. 

Ryan Dzelzkalns [virtual reader] has poems appearing with Catapult, DIAGRAM, The Offing, The Shanghai Literary Review, Tin House, and others. He received an MFA from New York University and a BA from Macalester College where he was awarded the Wendy Parrish Poetry Prize. His writing has been translated into Latvian (the language of his grandparents) and has been anthologized in a handful of collections. He was recently a Fulbright scholar in Tokyo, where he still lives. Read more at RyanDz.com

Sarah M. Sala [in person reader] is a queer poet of Polish-Lebanese descent. Her debut collection, Devil’s Lake is now out from Tolsun Books. She is the founder of the free poetry workshop, Office Hours, and Co-Poetry Editor at the Bellevue Literary Review. Her work appears in BOMB, the Southampton Review, and the Los Angeles Review. Visit her at sarahsala.com and @sarahmsala.