Envisioning a New Age
Poetry & Open Mic 2025
Zoom Monthly Poetry Series
Wednesdays 7-9 pm CST
Annemarie O'Connell, January 15th
Poetry & Open Mic 2025
Zoom Monthly Poetry Series
Wednesdays 7-9 pm CST
Annemarie O'Connell, January 15th
Aldo Amparán, February 12th
Roméo Desmarais, March 12th
Andi Kaufman, April 9th
Angelique N. Zobitz, May 14th
Angelique is a Chicago native poet, who received her B.A. in English (concentration in Creative Writing) from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
She is Poetry Editor at The Night Heron Barks and Ran Off with the Star Bassoon, and Contributing Editor at Cave Wall, a literary journal of poetry and art.
Born to a dope ass teen mom-word nerd-punk rock singer in the early 80's, she was raised on the Southside of Chicago, at the knee of farm folks from all over Louisiana who'd joined the military and moved North during the Great Migration to work in factories. Thus she grew up with a soul full of lyricism and an eye for detail.
Zobitz’s debut full length collection Seraphim (CavanKerry Press) was released in 2024.
She is also the author of the chapbooks Burn Down Your House (Milk & Cake Press, 2021) and Love Letters to The Revolution (American Poetry Journal, 2020).
Her work has been a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize, Philip Levine Prize, St. Lawrence Prize, The Berkshire Prize, Tupelo Prize, and Georgia Poetry Prize and multi-nominated for the Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. Luna Luna Magazine named her one of '5 Poets of Color to watch in 2021' alongside Chen Chen and Amanda Gorman.
Her poetry has been published widely and can be found in The Journal, VIDA Review, The Adirondack Review, Sugar House Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry's Poet Resist Series, Poets Reading the News, anomalous press, Night Heron Barks, So to Speak: a feminist journal of language + art, SWWIM, Rise Up Review, Pretty Owl Poetry, Rogue Agent, Psaltery & Lyre, Negative Capability Press, Mortar Magazine, Obsidian: Literature & Arts of the African Diaspora, Yemassee, The Midwest Review, CONSTRUCTION Lit Mag, Monologging and many others.
An admitted farmers market lurker, slow food lover, hip-hop head, trap and country music enthusiast, party planner, second generation word nerd and delightful contradiction, you'll always catch her with family, friends, books, poetry, coffee, rocking cowboy boots, protesting, volunteering on boards and committees, pondering the simple, the unique and the divine, and slinging poetry.
(https://angeliquezobitz.com/about)
(https://angeliquezobitz.com/about)
Tiff Holland, June 11th
Tiff Holland writes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. Their work has been published in almost one hundred journals. They have published two chapbooks of flash fiction "Bone In a Tin Funnel" and "Betty Superman" the latter of which went on to win The Rose Metal Press 5th Annual Flash Fiction Contest which then went on to become the cornerstone of an anthology of novella-in-flash "My Very End of the Universe" which won an IPPY Award. In 2020 Tiff published their first full-length poetry manuscript "My Mother's Transvestites."
John Dorsey, July 16th
Eben E. B. Bein, August 20th
Elaine McMilian, September 17th
Saddiq M. Dzukogi, October 15th
Phynne~Belle, November 12th
Phynne~Belle is a San Francisco Bay Area poet, and teaching artist. She is Lead Editor of Mayari Literature Micro-Journal and co-director of The Poetry Global Network. This year, she has contributed to PGN’s first anthology, Kaleidoscopoetry, which includes works from poets across the globe. Phynne has one poetry collection titled, Some Days, Here. Through her online platform, Phynnecabulary, she organizes poetry events and programs that endeavor to make the literary arts (poetry in particular) accessible widely. You can follow her on Instagram @phynne_belle and on X @PhynneBelle.
Phynne~Belle is a San Francisco Bay Area poet, and teaching artist. She is Lead Editor of Mayari Literature Micro-Journal and co-director of The Poetry Global Network. This year, she has contributed to PGN’s first anthology, Kaleidoscopoetry, which includes works from poets across the globe. Phynne has one poetry collection titled, Some Days, Here. Through her online platform, Phynnecabulary, she organizes poetry events and programs that endeavor to make the literary arts (poetry in particular) accessible widely. You can follow her on Instagram @phynne_belle and on X @PhynneBelle.
Reading of Dorothy Parker’s “The False Friends” on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVvH968/
Work included in anthologies:
“Rabbit Skin,” Sinew: Ten Years of Poetry in the Brew. https://aprilgloaming.com/shop/sinew-10-years-of-poetry-in-the-brew-2011-2021/
“Desert Horses,” The Bronx Memoir Project, Vol. V. https://www.amazon.com/Bronx-Memoir-Project-Council-Arts/dp/B09725DQ2T
“The Odyssey (Two Fish Swimming),” Kaleidoscopoetry: The First PGNthology. https://www.amazon.com/Kaleidoscopoetry-First-PGNthology-Martin-Grey/dp/1739288106
CashApp: $phynnebelle
Venmo: Tricia-DeJesus-Gutierrez
Agnes Vojta, December 10thAuthor Bio
Agnes Vojta grew up in Germany and now lives in Rolla, Missouri where she teaches physics at Missouri S&T and hikes the Ozarks. She is the author of Porous Land, The Eden of Perhaps, and A Coracle for Dreams (Spartan Press). Most recently, she has been collaborating with eight other poets on the book Wild Muse: Ozarks Nature Poetry (Cornerpost Press, 2022.) Her poems have appeared in a variety of magazines; you can read some of them on her website agnesvojta.com.