REMINDER:
Brownstone Poets on ZOOM
Saturday, January 30 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST New York City
JP Howard
Susana H. Case
Sandra Yannone
Please follow directions below to prevent last minute traffic on the day of the reading:We’re back! On ZOOM. Our January features are JP Howard, Susana H. Case, and Sandra Yannone. Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contributions keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.
Step 1: Make your $5 donation: https://rb.gy/utlbol
Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting: rb.gy/fowl4g
Step 3: After making your donation and registering, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.
Looking forward to seeing you at our January reading!
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1057078228105973/
BIOS

JP Howard is an educator, literary activist, curator, and community builder.Herdebut poetry collection, SAY/MIRROR (The Operating System), was a Lambda Literary finalist. She is also the author of bury your love poems here (Belladonna*) and co-editor of Sinister Wisdom Journal Black Lesbians–We Are the Revolution! JP was a featured author in Lambda Literary’s LGBTQ Writers in Schools Program and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, VONA, and Lambda Literary. She curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon. Her poetry is widely anthologized. JP is a general Poetry Editor for Women’s Studies Quarterly and Editor-At-Large of Mom Egg Review VOX online. http://www.jp-howard.com.

Susana H. Case is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Dead Shark on the N Train, from Broadstone Books, 2020, which won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book and a NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite. She is also the author of five chapbooks. Her first collection, The Scottish Café, from Slapering Hol Press, was re-released in a dual-language English-Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka by Opole University Press and she has also been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Case is a Professor and Program Coordinator at the New York Institute of Technology in New York City and can be reached at www.susanahcase.com.

Sandra Yannone’s poems and reviews manifest in journals including Ploughshares, Poetry Ireland Review, Prairie Schooner, Live Encounters, Impossible Archetypes, Women’s Review of Books, Calyx, and Naugatuck River Review. Her poem “Requiem for Orlando” appeared in a special online edition of Glass: A Poetry Journal responding to the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting. Salmon Poetry published her debut collection Boats for Women in 2019 and will publish The Glass Studio in 2022. Since March, 2020, she’s hosted the weekly reading series Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry on Facebook via Zoom. She resides mostly in Olympia, Washington. Please visit her at www.sandrayannone.com.