Name: Hila Ratzabi Reading & Poetry Open-Mic
Start: 2025-03-08T16:00:00-06:00
Location: Wayfarer Theaters

Highland Park Poetry welcomes Hila Ratzabi as our featured poet. Hila Ratzabi is the author of the poetry collection There Are Still Woods (June Road Press, 2022), which won a gold Nautilus Book Award and was a finalist for a National Indie Excellence Award. Her poetry has been published widely in literary journals, including Narrative, Linebreak, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Adroit Journal, and others, and in The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College (2007) and lives outside Chicago.
Open mic follows. Poets may bring up to three short poems to share. Highland Park Poetry reserves the right the reduce the number to ensure all participants have a chance to read.