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Join Raven Contributors to "Take a Stand, Art Against Hate": March 18, 7pm; followed by an open mic.
MC: Michael Dylan Welch; Readers: Marc Beaudin (Livingston, Montana), Risa Denenberg (Olympic peninsula), Thomas Hubbard (Kirkland), Tamam Kahn (San Rafael, CA), and Susana Praver-Pérez (Oakland, CA).
Marc Beaudin, an Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Foundation artist-in-residence, is a poet, theatre artist and ABAA-member bookseller in Livingston, Montana. He is the author of Life List: Poems, the hitchhiking memoir, Vagabond Song: Neo-Haibun from the Peregrine Journals, and several other books. His work has appeared in numerous journals including Cutthroat, High Desert Journal and Whitefish Review, and has been widely anthologized in publications fighting for environmental and social justice. He believes the Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D is more powerful than all the guns, smokestacks and coal trains in the world. More at https://crowvoice.com.
Risa Denenberg lives on the Olympic peninsula and is co-founder and editor at Headmistress Press, publisher of lesbian/bi/trans poetry. She publishes poetry book reviews at Adroit, the Rumpus and other venues, and curates The Poetry Café, an online meeting place where poetry chapbooks are reviewed. She has published seven collections of poetry, most recently, slight faith (MoonPath Press, 2018) and Posthuman, finalist for the 2020 Floating Bridge Chapbook Contest. Visit: https://thepoetrycafe.online/ and https://risadenenberg.com/.
Thomas Hubbard, a retired writing instructor and spoken word performer, wrote features for various newspapers and magazines during the 1980s, then authored Nail and other hardworking poems, Year of the Dragon Press, 1994; Junkyard Dogz (also available on audio CD); and Injunz, a chapbook, also Poems for my people, Foothills Publishing 2011. He designed and published Children Remember Their Fathers (an anthology), and books by seven other authors. His book reviews have appeared in Square Lake, Raven Chronicles, New Pages and The Cartier Street Review. Publication credits include poems in Yellow Medicine Review, spring 2010, I Was Indian, editor Susan Deer Cloud (Foothills Publishing, 2010), and Florida Review; and short stories in Red Ink andYellow Medicine Review.
Tamam Kahn is the author two books on the women of early Islam: Untold, A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad (Monkfish Books, 2010), was awarded an International Book Award in 2011, and translated into Indonesian; and Fatima’s Touch, Poems and Stories of the Prophet’s Daughter (Ruhaniat Press, 2016). Tamam has traveled to sacred sites in Morocco, Syria, Jordan, Andalusia, and India, and spent two decades researching early Islamic history. In 2009, she was invited by the Royal Ministry of Morocco to read her poetry at a world-wide Sufi conference in Marrakesh. She presented at The Mystics Summit, February, 2021: Mother Ancestor Stories. Website: https://completeword.wordpress.com.
Susana Praver-Pérez is an Oakland-based, Pushcart nominated poet. By day, she works as a Physician Assistant at La Clínica de la Raza. By night, she can be found reading poetry at open mics from San Francisco to San Juan, By nature, she is a storyteller recounting that to which she bears witness through her poetic lens. Susana’s work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals including: The Acentos Review, La Respuesta, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Poets Reading the News, About Place Journal, Meow Meow Pow Pow Press, Dove Tails, and the Raven Chronicles anthology Take a Stand: Art Against Hate. Her first full-length book of poetry titled: Hurricanes, Love Affairs and Other Disasters, will be released by Nomadic Press in 2021.