Join us on Wednesday, June, 24th at 7 PM Eastern Time for Glowing in the Bright: A Summer Solstice Reading hosted by Seema Reza.
This evening will feature poetry and creative expression shaped by work written in our April workshop in response to Cornelius Eady’s “Proof.” Gathered at the summer solstice, we celebrate the courage it takes to hope, to imagine sincerely, and to keep bringing forth a future we all belong in.
This Years Performers Include:
- Sean Adams
- Katie Joy Cochran
- Crystal Daggett
- Branwen Drew
- Joan Green
- Raychelle Heath
- Leena Jade
- Cathrine Schmid
- Corra Thrailkill
*Note: If you usually attend our Wednesday Visual Arts Workshop, please RSVP for this event in its place so you can participate in our post-reading art session. Visual Art session will start immediately following the end of the reading.
Seema Reza is the author of the books A Constellation of Half-Lives and When the World Breaks Open. She is the CEO of Mission Belonging, a non-profit organization that brings workshops led by professional artists to service members, veterans, and clinicians. An alumnus of Goddard College and VONA, Reza has taught poetry in classrooms, jails, hospitals, and universities. She was a 2019 Stand-to Veteran Leadership Fellow at the George W. Bush Institute and the 2023 Pauli Murray Art for Racial Justice Fellow at the Antiracism Research and Policy Center at American University. Reza’s writing has been widely anthologized and has appeared in the Washington Post, McSweeney’s, The LA Review, LitHub, and Electric Literature among others.
This program is funded in part by Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network, an initiative of the National Endowment in partnership with the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant program is managed by Mid-America Arts Alliance.
