Carolyn Moore Reading Series & Open Mic: Alexa Duborsky & CD Eskilson_沙巴体育官网

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Join visiting poets Alexa Luborsky and CD Eskilson and come share your work at our second Carolyn Moore Reading Series & Open Mic event. After the visiting writers read some of their poems, PCC students, faculty, and community members will have the opportunity to take the floor. The event will take place in Terrell Hall, Room 122 on the PCC Cascade campus at 7 p.m., but you can sign up to participate in the open mic as early as 6:30 p.m.

Alexa Duborsky is a writer and multimedia artist of Western Armenian and Eastern European Jewish descent. She is the International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA) Creative Writing 2023 Grant Recipient for poetry collection in progress on diaspora and genocidal aftermaths. She is a Master of Fine Arts candidate in poetry, an H. Kruger Kaprielian Scholar, and a Rachel Winer Manin Jewish Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow at the University of Virginia. She is the interviews editor for Poetry Northwest and reads for Meridian. Born in Toronto and raised in Rhode Island, she currently resides in Charlottesville, VA.

CD Eskilson is a trans nonbinary poet and translator. They are a recipient of the C.D. Wright / Academy of American Poets Prize, and their work appears in Kenyon Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Offing, Passages North, and others. Their debut poetry collection, Scream / Queen, is forthcoming from Acre Books.