This November, we’re is stoked to host a poetry reading and celebration for @brodyparrishcraig and @nevertheless_noelia for their 2024 poetry collections. We can’t wait to hear these poets share their work at this special reading. ❤️🎉

Brody and Noelia’s reading, book signing, and celebration will take place on Thursday, November 14 at 6:30 p.m. at Pearl’s.📚

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Brody Parrish Craig (they/them) is the author of The Patient is an Unreliable Historian (2024) and Boyish, the winner of the 2019 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest. They edited TWANG (2020), a regional collection of trans, gender nonconforming & nonbinary creators tied to the south/midwest (twanganthology.org). Craig is a recipient of the Community Activator Award (2022) and Arkansas Arts Council award for Community Engagement Arts (2024). A graduate of University of Arkansas’ M.F.A. in Creative Writing, they teach at NorthWest Arkansas Community College. Their poems appear in Poetry Magazine, Muzzle Magazine, TYPO and beestung, amongst others.

Noelia Cerna is a Latina poet based in Springdale, AR. She was born in Costa Rica and immigrated to the United States at the age of 7 where she received a Bachelor’s degree in English from Westminster College in Missouri. Her poems have been published in audio form in Terse. Journal and in print in the The Revolution [Relaunch], the Girl Gang blog, the Plants and Poetry Journal and The North Meridian Review. Noelia is a book editor for the North Meridian Review and an award winning writing mentor for Pen America’s Prison Writing Mentorship program.