An evening of poetry & music, hosted by Hari Alluri and Seema Reza. Featuring Tarfia Faizullah, Jillian Danback-McGhan & more.

Join CBAW for, a Community Showcase. An evening of poetry & performances by the CBAW Community, hosted by Hari Alluri and Seema Reza. Featuring readings by Tarfia Faizullah, Jillian Danback-McGhan, and more. Refreshments generously provided by Bethesda Urban Partnership.

Featured performances from:

• Ryan Artes
• Kevin Basl
• Teri Ellen Cross Davis
• Jillian Danback-McGhan
• Tarfia Faizullah
• Rob Haney
• Sage Herrin
• Gowri Koneswaran
• Courtney LeBlanc
• Joe Merritt
• Laura Van Prooyen
• Steve Watson
• Ben Weakley
• Willie Young

About the hosts
Hari Alluri (he/him/siya) is author of The Flayed City (Kaya Press) and chapbooks The Promise of Rust (Mouthfeel Press) and Our Echo of Sudden Mercy (Next Page Press). He is co-editor of We Were Not Alone (Community Building Art Works) and co-founding editor at Locked Horn Press. Recipient of the Vera Manuel Prize for Poetry, siya has received grants, fellowships, and residencies from the BC Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, The Capilano Review, Deer Lake, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and others. His work appears through these venues and elsewhere: AALR, Apogee, Four Way Review, Marías at Sampaguitas, Poetry, ti-TCR, and—via Split This Rock—Best of the Net 2022. @harialluri | https://linktr.ee/harialluri

Seema Reza is the author of A Constellation of Half-Lives & When the World Breaks Open. Her writing has appeared in print and on-line in McSweeney’s, The Washington Post, The Feminist Wire, Bellevue Literary Review, The Offing, Full Grown People, and The Nervous Breakdown among others, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has taught poetry in classrooms, jails, hospitals, and universities, and has performed across the country at universities, theaters, festivals, bookstores, conferences, & one fine mattress shop.

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