Name: Poetry By Candlelight: Date Night Series
Start: 2025-12-06T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-06T21:00:00-05:00
Location: The Little Bookshop

Poetry By Candlelight: Date Night Series

Celebrate the holidays and each other with a candle lit night of poetry, friends, dates, good food, and books!
About this Event

Celebrate poetry with us, and romanticize a little literacy as we slide into the holidays with loved ones, friends, or maybe someone new.

This is part of our date night series, which can mean a table for two with your sig other, friend, or maybe to take yourself out in style.

We're welcoming some incredible poets to our little bookshop for an evening of community, creativity, and celebration.

Poets:

Hattress

Hattress is a dynamic performer, host, and educator whose passion for poetry and community has taken him to iconic stages and platforms. From captivating audiences at the legendary Apollo Theater to being featured by Dove Men’s Care in a powerful commercial on community care, his voice resonates deeply across mediums. As an educator, Hattress is dedicated to educating, activating, and training Black and Brown youth, empowering them to become agents of change and most importantly, use their voice!

David Nazario

David Nazario is a spirit, human, brother, sun, friend and lover.

Samuel Espíndola Hernández

Samuel is the author of Resonancias Magnéticas (Pez Espiral, 2021) a book delving into Twin Peaks characters over Chilean violent landscapes as a backdrop. His work has been published in the anthology Maraña (2019), the Poetry Project Newsletter, A perfect vacuum, and Dial-A-Poem USA. He received the Roberto Bolaño Prize for Young Creative Writing, was an Emerge—Surface—Be Fellow 2023-2024 for the Poetry Project and an upcoming MacDowell fellow this January where he will be working on his second book Lenticular.

Catherine Shonack

Catherine is a poet, playwright, and mosh pit enthusiast from Torrance, CA. Her debut poetry chapbook “breakup notes from a love story i made up in my head” was published in Bottlecap Press. Her poems have been featured in Chill Mag and Ink Sweat & Tears, and her plays have been performed in scratch nights in the UK and US.

🕯️ Event Schedule🕯️

Date: December 6th

Time: Doors open at 7 PM

Evening Timeline

7:00 PM Doors Open / Guest Arrival & Seating

7:15 PM Opening Remarks & Evening Introduction

7:25 PM David Nazario – Performance

7:35 PM Brief Transition & Intro to Poet 2

7:40 PM Catherine Shonack – Performance

7:50 PM Brief Transition & Intro to Poet 3

7:55 PM Samuel Espíndola Hernández – Performance

8:05 PM Brief Transition & Intro to Poet 4