Name: World Above featuring Alina Pleskova
Start: 2024-05-15T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-05-15T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 2200 Fairmount Ave, Atlantic City, NJ, United States, New Jersey 08401

📅 All are welcome to attend World Above! Share your poetry in this supportive community event.
Join us Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at 7:00pm EDT at Stockton University’s Noyes Arts Garage (2200 Fairmount Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401) or online via Zoom (https://stockton.zoom.us/j/95192100891...).
🎙️The featured poet for May is Alina Pleskova.
Alina is Moscow-born, Philadelphia-based poet & editor. Her first full-length poetry collection, Toska, was published by Deep Vellum in June 2023 & is a finalist for a 2024 Lambda Literary Award. She is a recipient of the Leeway Foundation’s 2020 Art & Change & 2022 Window of Opportunity grants, & was a writer-in-residence at The Betsy Hotel in Miami, FL in August 2023. Alina has hosted workshops, events, & panels for organizations including Apiary, Blue Stoop, The Head & The Hand, Rutgers University, & the Institute of Contemporary Art, & served as Programming Coordinator for the 215 Festival. Her chapbook, What Urge Will Save Us, was published by Spooky Girlfriend Press in 2017. In addition, Alina is a founder of the Cheburashka Collective, a group of women & nonbinary writers who are emigres/first-gen/refugees from the Soviet diaspora, and co-edits bedfellows, a biannual literary magazine topically focused on desire & intimacy.
Learn more about Alina by visiting her website at https://www.alinapleskova.com/.
World Above open mic participants are invited to read one poem or prose piece that is less than two minutes long. Please arrive in-person or online by 6:50pm to secure a spot in the Open.
All participants will receive a free take-home writing prompt penned by Barbara Daniels.
Please invite your friends to this event, join and share it on Facebook, and link our website (https://sjpoets.wordpress.com) to your social media.
Questions about this series or to recommend or apply to be a featured poet, please contact Emari DiGiorgio ([email protected]).
World Above is made possible with support from Murphy Writing of Stockton University, The Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University, and the Atlantic County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.