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November 17th 20264pm PST
Reading via GoogleMeet (ONLINE)
POETRY READING–Nov 17th
REGISTER FOR an evening of poetry.
When: November 17th, 2026 4pm PST
Where: GoogleMeet (Online/Virtual)
What: A poetry reading featuring four authors
Join us for our upcoming poetry performance featuring compelling poetic voices. Writers who in the age of AI value real voices.
❋ Brian R. StraussAuthor poetry collections Existential Cowboy, Call of the Void, and Strung Like Puppets.
❋ Briana MuñozAuthor of poetry collections Loose Lips, Everything is Returned to the Soil, and Matriarchy: Sacred Poems.
❋ Amy DeBellisAuthor of the novels All Our Tomorrows, Methuselah, The Widening Gyre, and The Huntress and the Crow.
❋ Alexis SmithAuthor of two poetry chapbooks entitled Crater of Diamonds and Seeking Blue.
Briana MUÑOZ
Meet the Author:
Briana Muñoz is a poet, Indigenous Mexica danzante, mother, and the founder of Poetry as Harm Reduction. She is the author of three books of poetry including Matriarchy: Sacred Poems (El Martillo Press). Her work has been published in the anthologies How to Reimagine America, Beat Not Beat, Somos Xicanas and several other publications. She currently lives in Bellingham, WA with her partner and child.
AMY DEBELLIS
Meet the Author:
Amy DeBellis is a disabled writer from New York. She is the author of the novels All Our Tomorrows, Methuselah, The Widening Gyre, and The Huntress and the Crow. Her writing has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net, has appeared in the Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, and can be found in Wigleaf, X-R-A-Y, Passages North, Trampset, Pithead Chapel, The Pinch, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and others.
ALEXIS SMITH
Meet the Author:
Alexis Smith is a single mother raising three young children in the Sacramento Valley. She writes on the topics of motherhood, infatuation, longing, attachment to an addict, growth and grief through divorce. Alexis is obsessed with romanticism of the ordinary and fixates on how small details can be made to feel encompassing. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks entitled Crater of Diamonds and Seeking Blue.
Brian R. Strauss
Meet the Author:
Brian Strauss is a writer from Chula Vista, CA. He is the author of poetry collections Call of the Void (2015) and Strung Like Puppets (2016), both previously published by Foxx Press. His work has been published in over 20 underground literary magazines including the nationally awarded Zaum Literary Magazine. He completed his BA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing at Sonoma State University.
"Strauss’ metaphors are eloquently integrated within his poetry, making it accessible for the average appraiser. Each poem brings San Diego culture to life. Even if the reader has never been, they can actively see, taste, smell, touch, and, most importantly, hear San Diego and all of the echoes within its boundaries." - The Freeform Review
Photo by Joshuat Nava, 2022