Gemini Calling: A Poetry Reading

Twins

A night of celebration and reflection.

Woogee Bae writes poems and edits at Snail Trail Press. Her works have appeared in Afternoon Visitor, P-QUEUE, Poetry Northwest, Tagvverk, and elsewhere. Find her at woogeebae.com and @qodnrl.

Amaranth Borsuk is a poet, scholar, and book artist working at the intersection of print and digital media. Her latest volume is The Book (MIT Press, 2018), a concise introduction to the book as object, content, idea, and interface. She is the author of the poetry collections Pomegranate Eater (Kore Press) and Handiwork (Slope Editions) as well as three collaborative books of poems. She is associate director of the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington, Bothell. amaranthborsuk.com

Paul Hlava Ceballos is the author of banana [ ], winner of the 2021 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, chosen by Ilya Kaminsky, forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press. His collaborative chapbook, Banana [ ] / we pilot the blood (3rd Thing Press, 2021), shares pages with Quenton Baker, Dr. Christina Sharpe, and Torkwase Dyson. He has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Artist Trust, and the Poets House. His work has been published in POETRY, Pleiades, Triquarterly, Poetry Northwest, BOMB, Narrative Magazine, the LA Times, among other journals and newspapers, has been translated to the Ukrainian, and nominated for the Pushcart. He has an MFA from NYU and currently lives in Seattle, where he practices echocardiography.

At Gemini Calling we celebrated Woogee Bae as the queen of the Gemini - Along with a breathtaking lineup of poets. The community came together for a reading that realigned all contradiction for one brief moment, we also had cake.

Serena Chopra (Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Seattle University) is a teacher, writer, dancer, filmmaker and a visual and performance artist. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Denver and is a MacDowell Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. She has two books, This Human (Coconut Books 2013) and Ic (Horse Less Press 2017), as well as two films, Dogana/Chapti (Official Selection at Frameline43, Oregon Documentary Film Festival, QueerX and Seattle Queer Film Festival) and Mother Ghosting (2018). She was a featured artist in Harper's Bazaar (India), Revry, as well as in the Denver Westword’s “100 Colorado Creatives” and has recent publications in Sink, Foglifter, Matters of Feminist Practice as well as in the anthology Alone Together: Love, Grief and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 (Central Avenue Publishing, 2020). She also has critical essays in Rehearsing Racial Equity: A Critical Anthology on Anti-Racism and Repair in the Arts (forthcoming 2023) and in the republication of Judy Grahn’s The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition (Sinister Wisdom, forthcoming fall 2022). Serena is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Seattle University. You can find out more at SerenaChopra.com

C. R. Grimmer, who also goes by Chelsea Grimmer and uses she/her and they/them pronouns interchangeably is a poet, public scholar, and teacher living in Seattle, WA. They are the author of The Lyme Letters. They are also the author of O–(ezekiel's wife), a chapbook and audiobook collaboration from GASHER Journal and Press. They created and host The Poetry Vlog, aka TPV: a Podcast and YouTube channel dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry and higher education dialogues. A Critical Edition is forthcoming from University of Michigan Press in 2023. Find C. R.'s poems in journals such as Poetry Magazine, FENCE, [PANK], and elsewhere.

nanya jhingran is a poet, scholar & teacher from Lucknow, India currently living by the coastal margin of the Salish Sea, on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish People (upon which the city of Seattle was built). She serves as an Associate Editor of Book Reviews at Poetry Northwest. She is also a Ph.D. Candidate in Literature and Culture, an MFA Candidate in Poetry and an instructor of writing at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Corbin Louis is a Seattle singer and poet. His work explores disability and addiction. The artist is an MFA alumni of UWB and 2018 Jack Straw Writers Resident. Corbin’s poetry has been featured in Best American Experimental Writing, Button Poetry and more. You can find his work at corbin-louis.tumblr.com.

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Abi Pollokoff is a Seattle-based writer and book artist with work forthcoming or found in Cream City Review, Palette Poetry, The Seventh Wave, KALEIDOSCOPED, and Denver Quarterly, among others. Her work has been supported by the Jack Straw Cultural Center, Hugo House, and more. Currently, Abi is the managing editor for Poetry Northwest Editions, a part of the Open Books: A Poem Emporium team, and a production editor for Girl Friday Productions. She received her MFA from the University of Washington and is findable at abipollokoff.com

Prageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019), Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013), Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007), The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004), which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress, 2000). She is the founder of Thinking Its Presence, an interdisciplinary conference on race, creative writing, and artistic and aesthetic practices. Her recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Best American Poetry 2022, The New Republic, and Yale Review. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award, she has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College