A towering bonfire of gratitude to everyone who helped make our 19th reading such a toasty & crackling evening: Kwame, Valerie, William, Monica, and Gabriela for performing your flappy lits; Alibi Jones for your scintillating singing & photography; Pacific Standard for the ever-gracious hospitality; and all you lovely humans who came out on a Winter’s night to witness it all.  Let’s do this again on February 21 for our 20th (!) Reading / Year Four Flight Party…

photos by Alibi Jones

 Kwame Opoku-Duku reads some of his Ecclesiastes-inspired poetry

Valerie Hsiung shares some powerful excerpts from in her own words

William Lessard performs some of his brilliantly surreal “Facebook” poems

Our managing editor Joseph P. O’Brien reads his flash fiction “The Little Daredevil”

Monica Lewis shares some excellent poems from her forthcoming book Sexting the Dead

Gabriela Garcia performs some of her sizzling poetry to close out the evening

Alibi Jones prepares to dazzle the crowd with a performance of “California Dreaming”