Apr
20
11:30pm
WNBA Celebrates Women in Poetry's Future
By WNBA-DC
Join the Women's National Book Association in a discussion with three young poets about their inspiration, their aspirations, and the future of poetry.
Our featured poets are:
Sophia Falco, a faithful poet since she finds poetry essential to her understanding of the universe. Her poems appear in The Poetry Matters Project, The Raw Art Review, Wingless Dreamer, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Indolent Books, The Beautiful Space, among other journals. She is the author of her award-winning chapbook The Immortal Sunflower (UnCollected Press, 2019), the winner of the Mirabai Prize for Poetry, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Furthermore, Falco graduated magna cum laude along with the highest honors in the Literature Department at The University of California, Santa Cruz. Her Bachelor of Arts degree is in intensive literature with a creative writing concentration in poetry. Her forthcoming full-length poetry book, titled Farewell Clay Dove, is to be published by UnCollected Press. She loves to take long walks on the beach to be in the presence of the water, and to witness the ocean's vastness, blueness, and beauty.
Megha Sood, a Pushcart-nominated poet, editor, and blogger from Jersey City, New Jersey. She is an Associate Poetry Editor at journals MookyChick, Life and Legends, and also a Literary Partner in the project “Life in Quarantine'' with Stanford University, USA. She has over 600+ works featured in literary journals and magazines. She is also a National Level Winner of Spring Mahogany Literary Prize 2020 and a three-time state-level winner of the NAMI NJ Dara Axelrod Poetry Contest. Her chapbook, “My Body is Not an Apology,” is coming out by award-winning Finishing Line Press and her full-length “My Body Lives Like a Threat” is soon to be published by Texas-based Flowersong Press. Chosen twice as the panelist for the Jersey City Theater Center Online Series “Voices Around the World" and the "The Box: Reinvention. " She has been selected numerous times by the Jersey City Writers group and the Department of Cultural Affairs for the Arts House Festival. She tweets at @meghasood16.
Alora Young, the Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States. She is a two-time TEDx Speaker, a scholastic gold medalist, a Young Arts winner in spoken word, a recipient of the Princeton Prize in Race Relations, spring Robinson/Mahogany Red-Lit Prize, and the International Human Rights Day rising advocate award. She is the founder of AboveGround, an organization seeking to create equity in Nashville elementary schools through creative writing and Black history. She has previous publications in the New York Times, Rattle, Signal Mountain Review, RigorousMag, and Ice Colony Journal. She has wanted to be a poet since the age of 2 and hopes to one day be the world’s greatest grandma/supreme court justice.
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