Cliterati Open Mic Featuring: Alina Stefanescu in celebration of My Heresies
By Charis Books and More/Charis Circle
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This event takes place in person at Charis and virtually on Crowdcast, Charis' virtual event platform. Please note that you must be physically in person to participate in the open mic portion of the event but can listen/view from anywhere.
Charis and Cliterati pair up to present an inviting and fierce open mic & reading series that celebrates new voices and seasoned veterans alike. Co-hosted by Karen G. and Theresa Davis, all are welcome to come and share their work. If you would like to participate as a reader or performer, all you need to do is arrive by 7:15 pm ET to sign up on the list. If you are a non-acoustic musician and would like to plug your instrument into our sound system, please contact info@chariscircle.org ahead of time to let us know so we can have the right setup for you! There are no genre, style, or form requirements, but please keep your set to under five minutes to allow everyone to have a turn!
This evening we'll be joined by the Refaat Mobile Library - a traveling, volunteer-operated, liberation library and mutual aid project. Find out more about their work here. We encourage you to support their work by donating a book or signing up to be a Library volunteer. A volunteer will be present at the event to accept in-person donations and answer questions.
This month's featured poet is Alina Stefanescu in celebration of My Heresies, a poetry collection that probes the boundaries between the sacred and the profane. The result is a hauntological mapping of life, love, family, and womanhood.
Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series, Nov. 2020) and Dor, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (September, 2021). Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Books Prize (April 2018). Alina's poems, essays, and fiction can be found in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, World Literature Today, Pleiades, Poetry, BOMB, Crab Creek Review, and others. She serves as editor, reviewer, and critic for various journals and is currently working on a novel-like creature. Her newest poetry collection My Heresies, is out from Sarabande Books. More online at www.alinastefanescuwriter.com.
The event is free and open to all people, but we encourage and appreciate a donation of $5-20 in support of the work of Charis Circle, our programming non-profit. Donate on Crowdcast or via our website: www.chariscircle.org/donate or in person at the event.
Charis Books is a fully wheelchair accessible space with on site van accessible parking, two ramps, and additional overflow accessible parking nearby. Additional accessibility information can be found on the Accessibility page of our website.
If you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request specific accessibility accommodations, please contact info@charisbooksandmore.com or call the store at 404-524-0304. Please contact us at info@chariscircle.org or 404-524-0304 if you would like ASL interpretation at this event. If you would like to watch the event with live AI captions, you may do so by watching it in Google Chrome and enabling captions: Instructions here. If you have other accessibility needs or if you are someone who has skills in making digital events more accessible please don't hesitate to reach out to info@chariscircle.org.
Charis Books & More
184 S. Candler St.
Decatur, GA 30030
(404) 524-0304