Virtual Poetry Event with Chris Bullard, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Raya Tuffaha, Donna Wolf-Palacio & Katie Sarah Zale 

Thursday December 8 @ 7PM — VIRTUAL

Registration Required. Register Below!

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Chris Bullard is a native Floridian who lives in Philadelphia, is author of Continued, Going Peaceably to the Obsidian Knife and Rainclouds of Y.  He received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Wilkes University. His work has appeared in recent issues of Leveler, Muse/A Journal, The Woven Tale, Nimrod, American Journal of Poetry and The Offbeat.

Cynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Fire Is Not a Country (Northwestern University Press, 2021), Salvage (Northwestern University Press, 2017) and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket Press, 2016). She is a member of the Sanctuary Advocate Coalition, which works to expand sanctuary in vision and practice through the framework of black-brown unity.  

Raya Tuffaha is a Palestinian artist from Seattle, WA. Her first collection, To All the Yellow Flowers, was published in March 2020 with Golden Antelope Press. Her first chapbook, apocalypse blues, was published with Plan B Press this August. Raya is a current senior at Swarthmore College, where she studies Theatre and Peace & Conflict Studies. She specializes in solo performance and fight direction, and will move to the east coast after graduation. She hopes her work on the page & the stage serves her communities with integrity.

Donna Wolf-Palacio is author of The Architect of Elsewhere, What I Don’t Know, The Other Side, and Step Lightly.  She taught an ongoing poetry workshop at the University of the Arts and was editor/consultant of the UARTS Poetry Review.  She has published her writing in Poetry, The Pennsylvania Gazette, the Musehouse Journal, Intro, The Interpreter, Poems from the Heart: Poems about Adoption, and Voices.  She has received grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities, The Leeway Foundation, and the PCA.   

Katie Sarah Zale teaches writing and works on Art for Justice programs in Arizona. Her first book, The Art of Folding, was inspired by her travels to Israel and Palestine. The collection Sometimes You Do Things (Aquarius Press, Living Detroit Series) highlights the history of Detroit and celebrates its rebuilding. She lives in Tucson.