Join us for a literary reading featuring writers Tangie Mitchell, Natasha Rao, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Noa Mendoza, Miriam Gordis, and Loré Yessuff. Come for the wine, stay for the gorgeous poetry and prose.

Tangie Mitchell (she/her) is a poet, editor, and collage artist from North Carolina. Writing about Black, Southern, and working-class life, her work has been featured in Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, Exposition Review, Aunt Chloe: A Journal of Artful Candor, and more. A Watering Hole Poetry Fellow and Obsidian Foundation alum, she holds an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Harlem, New York.

Natasha Rao is the author of Latitude, selected by Ada Limón as the winner of the 2021 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. The recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation, she has also received fellowships from Bread Loaf, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Community of Writers. Her work appears in The Nation, American Poetry Review, The New York Times Magazine, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She is currently an Editor of American Chordata.

Noa Mendoza is a poet and translator based in Brooklyn, whose work most recently appears in Poetry Project Newsletter, Itinerant Magazine, and Hot Pink Magazine. Their chapbook of experimental translation with Buenos Aires-based poet Violeta Sticotti radio fantasmal/fantasy radio is out with Wendy's Subway this summer.

Melissa Lozada-Oliva is the child of Guatemalan and Colombian immigrants and the author of Dreaming of You and peluda. Her work has been featured in NPR, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, PAPER, Armani Beauty, and more. She is a member of the band Meli and the Specs. She holds an MFA in poetry from NYU and lives in New York City.

Miriam Gordis is a writer and literary scout living in New York. Her writing has appeared in Guernica and Litro, and she writes a newsletter about culture called Ephemeras.

Loré Yessuff is a writer based in New York City. Her poems and prose have been featured in Voicemail Poems, The New York Times, Vox, and other publications.

Loré Yessuff is a writer based in New York City. Her poems and prose have been featured in Voicemail Poems, The New York Times, Vox, American Chordata, and other publications.