Join us via Zoom with featured poet Michelle Otero in reading and conversation, followed by open mic.

6 pm Pacific, 7 pm Mountain, 8 pm Central, 9 pm Eastern

After registering, you will receive a private link to the event. Reading will be recorded.

Michelle Otero is the author of Vessels: A Memoir of Borders, Bosque: Poems, and the essay collection Malinche's Daughter. She served as Albuquerque Poet Laureate from 2018-2020 and co-edited the forthcoming New Mexico Poetry Anthology 2023 and 22 Poems & a Prayer for El Paso, a tribute to victims of the 2019 El Paso shooting and winner of a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. A coach, community-based artist, and racial healing practitioner, she is the founder of ArteSana Creative Consulting, dedicated to creative expression and storytelling as the basis for organizational development and positive social change. Originally from Deming, New Mexico, Otero holds a BA in History from Harvard College and an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College. She is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. michelle-otero.com

Vessels: A Memoir of Borders: https://www.flowersongpress.com/store-j9lRp/p/vessels-a-memoir-of-borders