An International Poetry Reading #6

An International Poetry Reading #6
February 18th, 7:30pm
Cassandra Troyan (USA/Sweden)
Praise Osawaru (Nigeria)
Serge 🔱 Neptune (UK)
Monica Prince (USA)
Hosted by Cai Draper
Cassandra Troyan is a writer, educator, and performer whose work explores the intersections of gendered violence, radical histories of resistance, trauma, and capital. They are the author of several books and chapbooks of poetry, including, FREEDOM & PROSTITUTION (2020), A Theory in Tears (2016), KILL MANUAL (2014) and have presented, performed, or screened their multi-media work internationally. They live in southern Sweden and teach creative-critical writing practices as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Design at Linnaeus University.
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Praise Osawaru (he/him) is a writer from Nigeria. A Virgo and Best of the Net nominee, his work appears in Knights Library Magazine, The Hellebore, Ice Floe Press, Kissing Dynamite, Kalahari Review, and Roadrunner Review, among others. He was a finalist for the 2020 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize and the 2020 Nigerian Students Poetry Prize, and he's a recipient of the NF2W Poetry Scholarship. He's a reader for both Barren Magazine and Chestnut Review, and he's on Instagram & Twitter: @wordsmithpraise.
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Serge ♆ Neptune has been called ‘the little merman of British poetry’. His first pamphlet is These Queer Merboys, published with Broken Sleep. His work has appeared in Finished Creatures, Lighthouse, Banshee, Brittle Star and elsewhere.
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Monica Prince teaches activist and performance writing at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. She is the author of How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem ([PANK], 2020), Instructions for Temporary Survival (Red Mountain Press, 2019), and Letters from the Other Woman (Grey Book Press, 2018). She is the managing editor of the Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, and the co-author of the suffrage play, Pageant of Agitating Women, with Anna Andes. Her work appears in trampset, The Texas Review, The Rumpus, MadCap Review, American Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Check her website for more information at www.monicaprince.com.
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Cai Draper (UK)
Cai Draper is a poet from south london living in Norwich. His work appears or is forthcoming in publications from Lighthouse, Perverse, Bath mag, Anthropocene and Babel Tower Notice Board. Before lockdown he organised free poetry workshops at the Book Hive.
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