Poet and scholar ANGELA PEÑAREDONDO's second book of poetry, nature felt but never apprehended (Noemi Press, 2023) wields queer, diasporic mythmaking, affective experiences of ritual and prayer as an illuminating force in the tangles of intergenerational memory. 

Join for a night featuring Angela and four Bay Area poets welcoming and celebrating their second book!

Angela Peñaredondo Peñaredondo is a queer Filipinx writer, interdisciplinary artist, educator and scholar based in Los Angeles. They are author of nature felt but never apprehended (Noemi Press, 2023) and All Things Lose Thousands of Times (Inlandia Institute, 2016), winner of the Hillary Gravendyk Prize.

antmen pimentel mendoza (she, he) is the author of the chapbook MY BOYFRIEND APOCALYPSE (Nomadic Press, 2023). antmen is a writer, the Acting Co-Director of the Multicultural Community Center at UC Berkeley, and a student at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.

Mae Verano (they/them) is a queer, fat, Ilokano writer and social worker from San Jose, CA. They are a two-time Pink Door Fellow and a 2023 GenARTs Santa Clara County Writing Fellow. Mae's work can be found in the Offing, Caesura, Voicemail Poems & forthcoming.

Janice Lobo Sapigao (she/her) is a Filipina American poet from San José, CA. She is the author of two books of poetry, microchips for millions (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2016) and like a solid to a shadow (Nightboat Books, 2022). She was the 2020-2021 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate.

Mihee Kim is a poet and artist based in Oakland, California, on Chochenyo Ohlone land. The recipient of the Leslie Scalapino Award from California College of the Arts, she is the managing director of Kearny Street Workshop.