Name: Poetry Open Mic featuring Effy Redman
Start: 2024-12-04T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-04T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Caffe Lena

A featured poet reads for 20 minutes, then the mic is open for participants: two short poems or one longer poem, with a limit of 5 minutes
Effy Redman’s writing investigates the intersection of disability and identity, building bridges in minority communities. Her first book – Saving Face – a memoir of living with physical disability – was published by Vine Leaves Press in March 2024. Redman is a regular at Caffè Lena Poetry night and has published poetry in several literary journals including Chronogram, Berkeley Poetry Review, and Poetry Now. She has also published nonfiction in The New York Times, Vice, Ravishly, Chronogram, Berkeley Poetry Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review, among others. She holds an MFA in Memoir from CUNY: Hunter College, where she received an Honorable Mention for the Helen Gray Cone Fellowship, and a BA in Literature/Drama from Bennington College, where she was an Ellen Knowles Harcourt Scholar and a Bennington Scholar.