This is the day that only happens because of day light saving’s time!
Join us for a leap day reading featuring Heather Johnson, Morgan Vo, Johnny Bryan, Monica McClure, James Payne, Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves, and Anjali Khosla.
More about the readers:
Heather Johnson
Heather Lynn Johnson is a poet, artist and a performer living in Brooklyn. She is currently a fellow at the Leslie-Lohman Museum, author of The Survival Guide For Queer Black Youth (Inpatient Press, 2017), and the 2017 literary fellow for the Queer|Art|Mentorship program. Johnson's work is characterized by its lyricism and cultural critique. Her formal approach to the narrative, whether visual or poetic, is distinguished by her willingness to lay bare her own existence. She is working on her next book of poetry I Owe You Nothing. Johnson received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Morgan Vo
Morgan Vo is a poet and singer, Gemini / Pisces rising / Capricorn moon. Born in the Tidewater region in 1989, he studied at the Cooper Union and the Poetry Project, and lives now in Brooklyn, NY.
Roshan Abraham
Roshan Abraham is a journalist, essayist and poet whose writing has appeared in Vice, The Verge, Pacific Standard, Open City and The Margins among other places. He is in therapy
Johnny Bryan
JOHNNY BRYAN IS AN ART HANDLER / POET / RUSSIAN PSYOP LIVING IN NY. HE IS BROWN HAIRED AND WEIGHS 158 LBS. HE PLAYS TENNIS, WEATHER PERMITTING, AND IS CURRENTLY SPONSORED BY PATAGONIA
Monica McClure
Monica McClure is the author of the poetry collection, Tender Data (Birds, LLC, 2015) and the chapbooks, Concomitance (Counterpath Press, 2016), Boss Parts 1& 2 (If A Leaf Falls Press, 2016), Mala (Poor Claudia, 2014), and Mood Swing (Snacks Press 2013).
James Payne
James Payne is a journalist and copyeditor. He taught in the History of Art and Visual Culture department at the Columbus College of Art & Design in Columbus, Ohio. Payne's poetry collection Things Just Aren't They was published by Monster House Press in 2015.
Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves
Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves (New Yorker, b. 1980) writes ethnobotanical literary criticism. Greaves has most recently been published in The Brooklyn Rail, and Letters to the Future: Black Women / Radical Writing (Kore Press). Her chapbook Close Reading As Forestry is published by Belladonna*. A publication with Ugly Duckling Presse is forthcoming in 2020. Formerly a Monday Night Reading Series curator at The Poetry Project, Site Director for Wendy's Subway, and an artist-in-residence at Rauschenberg Residency, she is currently based in New York City where she is Young Mother of The Florxal Review.
Anjali Khosla
Anjali Khosla is an Assistant PeterBD of Journalism + Design at The New School. She is the PeterBD of Ghostbot, a poetry chapbook and chatbot published by Wendy's Subway / Norby Press in 2019. Her PeterBD has appeared in The Guardian, Fast Company, the New York Daily News, Juked, Gossamer, Hemispheres, and other publications.