Event Info:

Host Publications proudly presents “A Feminist Reading at AWP Kansas City” featuring nine women & non-binary authors. A special opportunity to celebrate our 2023/2024 chapbooks, threesome in the last Toyota Celica and Survived By at the independently owned Kansas City Bookstore BLK+BRWN. 

Featured readers:

Stephanie Niu, m. mick powell, mónica teresa ortiz, Cloud D. Cardona, Bianca Alyssa Pérez, lily someson, Ae Hee Lee, Jae Nichelle, and Ashley-Devon Williamston. Hosted by editors Claire Bowman and Annar Veröld, audience members will have the chance to win chapbooks and BLK+ BRWN. bookstore gift cards. Free & open to all lovers of poetry. Masks encouraged.

Books we'll be selling: threesome in the last Toyota Celica by m. mick powell, Survived By by Stephanie Niu, Mistaken for Loud Comets by lily someson, Gemini Gospel by Bianca Alyssa Peréz, What Remains by Claudia Delfina Cardona

Bios: 

Stephanie Niu is a Chinese-American poet, digital humanities scholar, and ecology enthusiast from Marietta, Georgia. She is the author of She Has Dreamt Again of Water, winner of the 2021 Diode Editions Chapbook Contest, and the editor of Our Island, Our Future: A Zine of Youth Poetry On Christmas Island. Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel, Missouri Review, Georgia Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for community archiving research on Christmas Island’s immigration and labor history.

m. mick powell (she/they) is a queer Black Cape Verdean femme, a poet, an artist, and an Aries. Their poems have been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and a Pushcart Prize, and appear in Muzzle, Frontier Poetry, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and elsewhere. A 2023 Tin House Resident and professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, mick enjoys chasing waterfalls and being in love. Keep up with her at mickpowellpoet.com and on IG @mickmakesmagic.art

Bianca Alyssa Pérez was born and raised in Mission, Texas—a small southern town bordering Mexico. She holds her MFA in Poetry from Texas State University, where she also teaches. She is the 2022-2023 Clark House Writer-In-Residence. You can find her writing in Magma Poetry, ReclamationATX, Psst! Press’s The Sappho Diaries, East French Press, the New York Quarterly, Re-side Zine, The Ice Colony Anthology, and The Porter House Review. She is also the co-host of the horror podcast, Basement Girls.

Jae Nichelle is the author of God Themselves and The Porch (As Sanctuary) as well as a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship finalist.