You are invited to join us for our event on Zoom on Saturday, March 28, 2026, at 2 pm ET with Jason Morphew, Mary Newell, Pamela Hughes, and Don Yorty.
Roxanne and Patricia
Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contribution keeps our annual anthology in print. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.
Please follow the directions below, completing both steps at least two days before the reading to avoid delays entering the meeting room. Note the order of the open mic follows the order of signup. Sign up early to read early in the program. Last-minute signup means you will read at the end of the program. The cutoff for Zoom access for an open mic slot is noon the day of reading. After noon, you will not be able to access Zoom. But you will receive a replay of the event after the reading.
Please follow these instructions:
Step 1: Make your $5 contribution: https://bit.ly/3bkqFmO
(Note that your contribution is not refundable.)
Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting:
https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D
If you don’t have PayPal, we accept credit/debit cards and Zelle. Please contact pcarragon@gmail.com to process your credit/debit cards or Zelle payment.
Step 3: After making your contribution and completing your registration, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.
**If you do not plan to attend or read in the open, please let us know, and we will send you the livestream link.
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Bios:
Jason Morphew is the author of the collections Eject City (Poets Wear Prada, 2025) and dead boy (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018) and the chapbooks What to deflect when you’re deflecting (Poets Wear Prada, 2017) and In Order to Commit Suicide (Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2012). His poems have been published in Seneca Review, Lana Turner, Bellevue Literary Review, and Smartish Pace, among other journals. His essays and reviews have been published in The Daily Beast, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Publishers Weekly, and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, among other magazines and newspapers. Morphew is also a singer-songwriter and a ghostwriter. He teaches at Stanford Online High School and lives with his family in Los Angeles.
Mary Newell, PhD, is an educator, writer, and editor whose work bridges embodied experience and ecological consciousness. Her most recent book ENTWINE, a critically acclaimed collection of poetry with selected photographs, was published by BlazeVOX in 2025. Newell’s poetry and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies, including About Place Journal, Clockwise Cat, Ecozon@, Interim journal, and Talisman. Her previous books include two chapbooks, TILT / HOVER / VEER and Re-SURGE, as well as the co-edited anthologies The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics and Poetics for the More-than-Human World. Newell teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Connecticut, Stamford and leads intermittent workshops on writing and on Feldenkrais, a mind-body method that focuses on awareness in movement. Newell lives in Beacon, NY, where she tends to the intersections of language, ecology, embodiment, and consciousness.
Pamela Hughes is author of two collections of poems, Femistry (Three Mile Harbor Press, 2025) and Meadowland Take my Hand (TMHP, 2017). Her poetry and prose have appeared in: Prairie Schooner, Canary; Literary Mama; PANK; The Paterson Literary Review; Brownstone Poets Anthology, The Minnesota Review and elsewhere. Her creative nonfiction piece, “The Red Door: On Breasts, Periods and Female Empowerment” was published in the anthology, My Body My Words. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College and is the editor of the online literary and arts magazine Narrative Northeast. Visit her at www.narrativenortheast.com.
Don Yorty is the author of three poetry collections, A Few Swimmers Appear, Poet Laundromat, and Spring Sonnets, and a novel, What Night Forgets. He blogs at donyorty.com: an archive of current art, his own writing, and the work of other poets. Poems written in his twenties, Fucking and Other Poems, was recently published by Indolent Books.
THEME: OPEN MIC / FEATURES
HOST: Roxanne and Patricia
FEATURES: Jason Morphew, Mary Newell, Pamela Hughes, Don Yorty
PRICE: Step 1: Make your $5 contribution: https://bit.ly/3bkqFmO / Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting: https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D
CONTACT: pcarragon@gmail.com
