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Word Thursdays Online On Zoom And Facebook Live April 10, 2025, at 7:00 PM EST featuring Melissa Eleftherion & Georgina Marie Guardado
Word Thursdays Online featuring Melissa Eleftherion & Georgina Marie Guardado will broadcast live on Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM EST. To attend the event, please use this link just before 7:00 PM EST:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577446746
Or visit Bright Hill’s Facebook page at 7:00 PM EST to view the live stream.
Suggested donation is $5, and free to students.
FEATURED WRITERS
Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a writer, a librarian, and a visual artist. Born & raised in Brooklyn, she holds degrees from Brooklyn College, Mills College, and San Jose State University. They are the author of the full-length poetry collections, field guide to autobiography (The Operating System, 2018), & gutter rainbows (Querencia Press, 2024), as well as twelve chapbooks including abject sutures (above/ground press, 2024). Her work has been widely published & featured in venues like Quarter after Eight, Sixth Finch, Entropy, & Barren Magazine. Melissa now lives in Northern California where she manages the Ukiah Branch Library, curates the LOBA Reading Series, and serves as Poet Laureate Emeritus of the City of Ukiah. Recent work is available at www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com.
Georgina Marie Guardado is the Poet Laureate of Lake County, CA for 2020-2024, and a Poets Laureate Fellow with The Academy of American Poets. She is the Literacy Program Coordinator for the Lake County Library and President of the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. She has received support from the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Hugo House, and SF Writing Salon. Her work has appeared in The Bloom, Noyo Review, Poets.org, Humble Pie Magazine, Gulf Coast Journal, Yellow Medicine Review, The Muleskinner Journal, Colossus: Freedom, and Two Hawks Quarterly. She is a 2nd year graduate student and scholar of the Kwame Dawes Mapmakers and Master of Fine Arts Merit endowments at the Pacific University MFA in Writing program. She is currently working on her full-length poetry manuscript, The Length of Trauma Covets.
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Bright Hill Press and Literary Center
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