A virtual literary mixtape, performed live one night only! Curated by Danielle Bero and Sage Curtis and featuring:

Set 1: Anhvu Buchanan » Dena Rod » Shilpa Kamat » Amber Carpenter » Paolo Bicchieri » Peggy Schimmelman » Jacquelyn Bengfort » Karla Brundage » Paolo Bicchieri » Madeline Cash » Doug Mathewson » Joshua Berriors » M. J. Arcangelini » Diana Donovan » Madeline Cash » Sangita Rajan

Set 2: Abbie Jeanne »  Lucie Pereira » Tammy Zhu » Allyson Darling » Anhvu Buchanan » Karla Brundage » Diana Donovan » Alia Salim » Sydney Vogl » Dena Rod

Please note: this show is free and all ages (with mature content), but RSVP is required.

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ABOUT THE BOOKS

If you’d like to purchase the book you can do that here for $10 + shipping, or you can donate $15 or more to Quiet Lightning by Paypal or Venmo and we’ll send you sPARKLE & bLINK 108 + a surprise back issue.

A note about the books: if we don’t sell out before we print our next book, the price will go down to $5/copy. You can order most of our back issues here. You should also know: we make all of our books available to read and watch for free. For virtual events we are printing 75 books/show. 100% of all proceeds, donations or not, go toward local artists and independent businesses.

ABOUT THE CURATORS

Danielle Bero was born in Queens to hippie parents, given a dose of Shel Silverstein, Tupac, Jazz and classic rock. She was the recipient of a Posse Scholarship, and nominated for the Daily News Unsung Hero in Education. Danielle taught in Indonesia on a Fulbright scholarship, the Bronx through Teach for America and co-founded a school for students in foster care. She received a master’s in English Education, Educational Leadership and completed her MFA at the University of San Francisco. She’s won slam competitions at Nuyorican’s Poets Café, Bowery Poetry Club and Ubud Writers festival. She’s a Jack Straw Cultural Center Fellow and is published in New American Writing, Sinister Wisdom, Lavender Review, Quiet Lightning, Mad Woman in the Attic, Arts by the People, Moving Words, Divine Feminist Anthology, Aunt Flo Anthology and Juked. She was previously a high school principal and is a lifelong educator. 

Sage Curtis is a Bay Area writer with work published in Tinderbox, Vinyl Poetry and Prose, Glass Poetry, The Normal School, Juked and more. She is a Shuffle Collective fellow, founder of Vulvas + Voltas collective, and has been featured in Quiet Lightning readings past. You can find her chapbook, Trashcan Funeral, from dancing girl press. Shout to University of San Francisco for co-signing her MFA.

Can't make it? The show will be archived in video and full text, like all of our previous readings! Find them, along with a daily calendar of Bay Area literary events + more, @ Litseen.

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Featured image: art by Nancy Sayavong, cover artists for sPARKLE & bLINK 108.