Red Light Lit: Portland
Bring a chair!!
Join us for an evening of al fresco poetry and live music, exploring themes of love and relationships in celebration of Hollie Hardy’s newly released poetry collection, Lions Like Us published by Red Light Lit Press.
Featuring:
Hollie Hardy
Jessie Carver
Justin Rigamonti
Jennifer Lewis
Charity Yoro
Armin Tolentino
Live Music:
Nick Jaina
Mary Simich
Hosted By: Jennifer Lewis
Friday, July 19, 2024
7pm
Grover’s Curiosity Shop
1410 SE Clinton St.
Portland, OR
Free Event
Author Bios
Hollie Hardy is a writer, educator, and author of Lions Like Us (Red Light Lit Press) and How to Take a Bullet: And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press) winner of the Annual Poetry Center Book Award at San Francisco State University. She holds an MFA in Poetry from San Francisco State University and teaches private writing workshops online. She is the founder of Praxis Poetry: Weekly Prompts for Poets, and host of Saturday Night Special: A Virtual Open Mic. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in numerous anthologies and literary journals. She lives in Austin, TX. Learn more at: holliehardy.com
Charity E. Yoro (she/her) is a steward of words and other beings. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Rumpus, poets.org, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere, and has been supported by Regional Arts & Culture Council and Sustainable Arts Foundation. Born, raised, and educated on the east side of O‘ahu, she currently lives west of the Willamette with her wild, loving family.
Jessie Carver is a queer writer and editor who lives in Portland, Oregon, but grew up on a farm in the borderlands of New Mexico. Jessie’s short stories and poems have appeared in various literary journals and the anthology Love Is the Drug & Other Dark Poems, and she co-authored the nonfiction book Rethinking Paper & Ink: The Sustainable Publishing Revolution. She won the 2024 Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction. You can find her online at jessiecarver.com.
Justin Rigamonti teaches English at Portland Community College and serves as the Program Coordinator for the Carolyn Moore Writing Residency. His poems have been recently published or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Radar, New Ohio Review, Thrush, and Smartish Pace, and his poem “The Secret” is forthcoming in the anthology Poetry of Grief, Gratitude, and Reverence from Wisdom Publications.
Armin Tolentino is the author of the collection We Meant to Bring It Home Alive (Alternating Current Press) and served as poet laureate for Clark County, WA from 2021-2023. He is a phenomenal clapper, a passable ukulele player, and a bumbling, but enthusiastic, fisherman. More info at www.armintolentino.com.
Jennifer Lewis is a writer, editor, and publisher of Red Light Lit. Her debut short story collection, The New Low (Black Lawrence Press), was an SPD Bestseller. She is the winner of the Nomadic Press Bindle Award and The Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction Award. She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University and her writing is widely published in magazines and journals. Jennifer teaches at The Writing Salon in San Francisco and is a staff writer for Alta Journal.
Nick Jaina is an author and musician living in Oakland, California. His latest book SPEKTRUM was released in 2022 by Modern Mythographer press. His 2015 memoir Get It While You Can was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Atlantic Monthly, Somnambulist, and many other places. He has composed music scores for feature films and a documentary and he co-founded a ballet collective in New York City.
Mary Simich is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, with a dusty voice reminiscent of a reincarnated mid-century artist. Listen on Bandcamp