PLEASE JOIN US on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31st for
An All Hallows Eve of Poetry
with Bakar Wilson + Irene Villaseñor.

$5 Donation | Open mic to follow featured poets!

6.45pm - Doors / Open Mic Sign up (5 min slots)
7.00pm - Featured Poets
8.00pm - Open Mic

Bakar Wilson has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Community of Writers, and the Colgate Writers’ Conference. He has performed his work at the Bowery Poetry Club, Poetry Project, The Studio Museum of Harlem, The Asian-American Writer's Workshop, and the Langston Hughes House, among others. His poetry has appeared in The Vanderbilt Review, The Lumberyard Radio Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology, and The Ostrich Review, among others. His debut collection of poetry titled, Daddy Show, was just published by Get Fresh Books. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Bakar received his B.A. in English from Vanderbilt University and his M.A. in Creative Writing from The City College of New York. He is an Adjunct Lecturer of English and Creative Writing at Borough of Manhattan Community College at CUNY.

Irene Villaseñor (Aeta, Chinese, Ifugao, and Purepecha) explores bi-societal experiences, Indigeneity, injustice, care, and community-building. Her writing has appeared in Queer Nature: An Ecoqueer Poetry Anthology, Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, Nat. Brut, Yellow Medicine Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Cream City Review, and elsewhere. She's received support from Atlantic Center for the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Lambda Literary, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, New York Foundation for the Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute, Tin House, VONA, and New York Foundation for the Arts. Irene read at the Whitney Biennial, Museum of the City of New York, Smack Mellon Gallery, the New Museum, and PARTICIPANT INC. Her poetry manuscript, Get Lost Colonizer: Erasures from the Future, was a runner-up for The Center for Book Arts' 2024 Annual Chapbook Contest.