Join us for a virtual reading with Emily August, Jacob L. Camacho and Cynthia Arrieu-King, live streamed using Zoom. You don’t need to create a Zoom account in order to “attend,” but you do need access to a computer, smart phone or other telephone.
You can tune in from your computer or smart phone by clicking this link: https://stockton.zoom.us/j/91826602907. You can view in your browser on your computer or will need to download an app to your phone.
You can also call in to listen from a landline or cell phone. Dial 929-436-2866 and enter meeting ID: 918 2660 2907
If you can’t join us live, we’ll post a recording of the reading to our YouTube channel within the next week.
This is a free event, but RSVP on Facebook is encouraged.
readers
Emily August is an assistant professor of literature at Stockton University, where she teaches courses in 19th-century British literature, medical humanities and creative writing. Her poems have appeared in Callaloo, Cimarron Review, Southern Humanities Review, Ninth Letter and other journals. Her scholarly work focuses on literary and clinical representations of medicine and the body. Read Emily’s poem, “Black Eyed Susan.”
Jacob L. Camacho is a CHamoru writer, educator, and activist born and raised in Guahan (Guam), of Islas Marianas. He received his Creative Writing MFA from Rutgers University, Camden. He is an alumni of The University of Guam and UCLA’s Extension Writers Program. Currently, he is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stockton University, a writer for Philadelphia’s TrailOff and co-founder of the Move Mountains Project 501(c)(3) in San Luis, Colorado. He is a former English Teacher at Philadelphia’s alternative high school, CADI, and NJ’s YMCA of Burlington and Camden Counties Academic Coach. His stories and poems have been featured in University of Guam’s Storyboard, University of Hawai’i’s Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia and Philadelphia’s MadHouse Magazine.
Cynthia Arrieu-King is an associate professor of creative writing at Stockton University and a former Kundiman fellow. Her poetry books include People are Tiny in Paintings of China; Manifest, winner of the Gatewood Prize selected by Harryette Mullen; and Futureless Languages. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, the tiny and others. Through the office of Global Engagement at Stockton, she is planning a faculty led tour to Iceland through the material cultures course GIS Quilts. Read some of her poems here.
Contribute
We’ve developed free programs to help our community keep writing and stay connected because we believe writing matters, even in difficult times. If you’d like to support these online offerings, we’ve set up a pass-the-hat link. Any contribution at all will help us keep these online programs going and develop even more for you to enjoy.
If you’d like to throw a couple of dollars into the hat, you can do so HERE.
The more we think about serving others, the less we think about our own worries.
PAST READINGS
Visit our Youtube channel to see past readings.
