Six Points: Meg Day and Jonathan Mendoza
@ Semicolon Bookstore
515 N. Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, November 15th, from 7PM - 8PM
Please join us for the November installment of the Six Points Reading Series featuring Meg Day and Jonathan Mendoza. The Six Points Series is a program of the Chicago Poetry Center, curated by Doe Parker, artistic direction by Elizabeth Metzger Sampson. As always, this event is free and open to the public. Accessibility varies by venue, please see below for this month’s details.
About the readers:
Meg Day is the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street, 2014), winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and The Publishing Triangle’s 2015 Audre Lorde Award, and a finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University, a 2015 Lambda Literary Award in Poetry, and Jacar Press’ Julie Suk Award. Day is the author of two chapbooks: When All You Have Is a Hammer (winner of the 2012 Gertrude Press Chapbook Contest), and We Can’t Read This (winner of the 2013 Gazing Grain Chapbook Contest). Day’s poems appear or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, cream city review, and Vinyl.
Jonathan Mendoza is an award-winning Mexican-American and Jewish spoken word poet, community organizer, activist, and educator. He writes and performs on topics pertaining to social justice, mental health, multiracial and Jewish POC identity, Latinidad, U.S.–Latin American relations, and local and global politics. He is a National Poetry Slam champion with the House Slam of Boston, Massachusetts, a three-time award winner at the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational, and the 2018 winner of the Sonia Sanchez-Langston Hughes Poetry Contest. His work has been featured in Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, and Button Poetry.
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