Posted by @mochamicwithmillie 🌸✨ We are going to be Magnifying Motherhood at Mocha Mic with Millie ✨🌸
Join us Thursday, May 15th, 2025 as we celebrate the complexities of motherhood and mothering — because for many of us, it’s a journey full of nuance, memory, resistance, healing, and love. 💐👑🤱🏾🫶🏽💭💗

This month’s mic honors all the layers of mothering with three unforgettable features 🎙️💫:

🪷 Megha Sood – 📝 An award-winning Asian-American poet, editor, and literary activist whose work has been featured by NPR, Stanford, and is even headed to the moon 🌙🚀. Author of My Body Lives Like a Threat, Megha writes with raw honesty and deep soul. ✍🏾📚

📚 Vera Sirota – 🏆 Author of We Bow To No One (Bottlecap Press), winner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer Chapbook Award. Her powerful storytelling uplifts and inspires through her work at the Hoboken Historical Museum. 💬❤️‍🔥

🎨 Ameerah Shabazz-Bilal – 🌍 An award-winning poet, visual artist, and educator from Newark. Founder of When Women Speak, her voice has graced global stages from Lagos to Havana 🗣️🔥🌺 — blending culture, resistance, and poetry with purpose.

🎟️ Tickets: $15 for Performers 🎤 | $20 Audience 👥
📍 123 Lex Venues & Events
📫 546 West Side Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07304
🚪 (Entrance on Lexington Avenue)
🍾 BYOB | 🍲 Food available for purchase by @jacqpot.co
Non Alcholic Beverages @frostb@frostbitesjctesjc

📸 Photography by MowZus of Expressions by MowZus 📷✨
🎥 Videography by BadPoetics @badpoetics  🎬💥

💌 Bring your celebratory poems 🎉, your angst 😤, your critique 🧐, or your nostalgia 🕰️ — we’re here for all of it. 💭💗

Let’s honor the matriarchs, the moments, and the many ways we carry and are carried. 💕👣🌼
🎤 A Tribe of Scribes and Good Vibes Awaits 🌈✨💫

🌟 I look forward to sharing space with you all soon. 💖👥📖 ### Visit www.NJPoetryEvents.com for more events in NJ

THEME: OPEN MIC / FEATURES
HOST: Millicent Ansah
FEATURES: Megha Sood, Ameerah Shabazz, Vera Sirota
PRICE: Tickets: $15 for Performers / $20 Audience - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mocha-mic-with-millie-celebrating-motherhood-may-15th-2025-tickets-1316962623659
CONTACT: @mochamicwithmillie