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Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146

Virtual Poetry Reading: Regie Cabico, Israel Colon, Lucia Herrmann

Regie Cabico is the first Asian American and queer poet to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam. He has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, TEDx Talk and NPR’s Snap Judgement. He received a New York Innovative Theater Award for his work with the New York Neo-Futurists’ Production of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind. He produces Capturing Fire Festival and Press. He has been on faculty at Kundiman, Banff Spoken Word Arts & NYU’s Asian Pacific Studies Artist in Residence. Cabico is a founding Board Member of Split This Rock and a 2019 Le Maison Baldwin Fellowship Recipient.

Israel Colon, author of Icarus ($12.00, Toho Publishing) With inspired rhyme schemes and use of poetic forms, Icarus confronts Israel Colon’s struggles with trauma, religion, and relationships. Through a mercilessly honest approach to writing, Colon shines a light on the experiences of a man barely keeping it together. A Philadelphia-based father, poet, and business operations professional, Colon has a bachelor’s from Temple University and a master’s in industrial and organizational psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. His debut poetry chapbook chronicles his early life as an at-risk youth. “Icarus will send shivers down your spine. It will remind you of the power of poetry and leave you wanting to read it again.”? Andrs Cruciani, author of The Father and editor-in-chief of Toho Journal.

Lucia Herrmann is a Miami-raised and Philly-based artist and educator. She has been published by Apiary, Toho Journal, Defunkt Mag, and has two pieces forthcoming in Jai-Alai Books’ Waterproof collection. In 2019, Lucia was featured in two Philly FringeArts productions, and she is very much looking forward to when theaters and performance spaces can safely reopen. She is a workshop leader for Green Street Poetry, and a former poetry editor for Toho Journal. In the classroom and in her community, Lucia is dedicated to the transformative and unifying power of creative expression.

Sean Hanrahan, Host – Open Reading Follows