Virtual Poetry Reading: Lynda V. E. Crawford, Hiram Larew, Yi Wei

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Lynda V. E. Crawford has lived in the US longer than her childhood home Barbados. Both ‘homes’ sway and punctuate her writing. She writes to sneak behind eyes, blow through ears, stretch voices like others dance words. Her work has appeared in The Galway Review, The Halcyone Literary Journal, The Bookends Review, and in anthologies by Spectrum Publishing, Los Angeles Poet Society, and Moonstone Arts Center. She also has work forthcoming in The Caribbean Writer in April 2022.

Hiram Larew constantly prowls for poems that surprise by dint of leaps, yelps, and pokes. His poems have appeared widely in journals, on the radio, in anthologies and newspapers, on public posters and in galleries. Author of three collections, organizer of The Poetry Poster Project, recipient of artist grants and purveyor of Poetry x Hunger, he facilitates diversity in poetry communities while serving on Poetry Boards and as Courtesy Faculty at four research universities. What Hiram Larew offers in this fifth collection is a grateful glisten of poems. Many were written as outdoor rambles during the 2020-21 pandemic. Others look back over a shoulder at what seems long ago. And some are simply puddles of ponder. But above and beyond all of that, with eyes that love sound and hearts that gleam, Larew’s Mud Ajar is an opening that’s not meant to end.

Yi Wei is a first-generation Chinese writer with a BA in Asian American Studies and English from Swarthmore College. She currently serves as the Assistant Flash Fiction Editor at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Yi has been awarded the Lois Morrell Poetry Prize and is the third-place winner for the 2021 Sappho Prize for Women Poets. Her work can be found in Palette Poetry, Lantern Review, and Crosswinds. She’s currently a Writer in the Public Schools fellow at NYU’s MFA in poetry.