Wednesday April 29th 7:00 to 8:00 pm

Nightfall Marginalia (What Books Press), a 2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist for Poetry, is Sarah Maclay’s fifth collection, and her fourth chapbook, The H.D. Sequence—A Concordance (Walton Well Press), came out in 2024. Her poems and essays, recognized by a Yaddo residency, a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship, the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry and a Pushcart Special Mention, have appeared in APR, FIELD, Ploughshares, The Writer’s Chronicle, The Best American Erotic Poems, Poetry International, where she served as Book Review Editor for a decade, and elsewhere. “Fugue States Coming Down the Hall,” produced at Oberlin and the Beyond Text Festival at Beyond Baroque, appears in Scenarios: Scripts to Perform. A Montana native, she’s taught creative writing at USC and LMU, offers periodic workshops at Beyond Baroque and is producer/host of Poetry.LA’s “The Poetry of Night.” Her poems are also the basis for a sequence of classical art songs, “Identity Had Gone,” by composer Kostas Rekleitis.

Hari B (Kate) Parisi’s poems have been published in numerous journals, including Cola Literary Review, Terrapin’s “What the House Knows”an anthology, and Poet Lore. She is the author of three volumes of poetry, including her chapbook She Speaks to the Birds at Night While They Sleep, winner of the 2020 Tebot Bach Clockwise Chapbook Contest. She has been selected to attend residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences. Her early years were spent in the then, small town of Redmond, Oregon, in view of the towering Cascades, surrounded by lakes, rivers and vast juniper and pine forests. After living in Los Angeles for over forty years, she has now returned to her home town. Her poems bring the reader into the places and times of her life experienced in these contrasting environments, always touching on both the connection and the isolation that is the human condition.