A poetry reading celebrating the release of Brennan DeFrisco's second collection of poems, Honeysuckle & Nightshade, published by Swimming with Elephants. Featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin, Lauren Parker, Mighty Mike McGee, Wil Gibson, Nazelah Jamison, D'mani Thomas, and a feature reading by Brennan DeFrisco. Book signing & refreshments to follow. No cover. $liding scale donations to support the event appreciated.

Brennan DeFrisco is a poet, teaching artist, editor & program coordinator from the San Francisco Bay Area. He's been a National Poetry Slam finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, 2017 Grand Slam Champion of the Oakland Poetry Slam, & a county arts coordinator for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. He's the author of A Heart With No Scars, published by Nomadic Press & has served as poetry editor on the mastheads of Lunch Ticket, Caesura & Meow Meow Pow Pow. Brennan facilitates creative writing and performance workshops, serving K-12 classrooms, incarcerated youth, and various arts education programs. His work has been published in Red Wheelbarrow, Words Dance, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Collective Unrest, & elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles.