Virtual Event
Virtual Poetry Reading with Akua Lezli Hope
May 17 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Virtual Event
Join us for a virtual poetry reading via Zoom in honor of the release of Akua Lezli Hope’s new collection, TELEPATH, due out in April From Gnashing Teeth Press. Themes in TELEPATH include mind reading and historical memory.
You can join the reading via Zoom with the following link:
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Akua Lezli Hope is a Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry (SFPA), wisdom seeker, and paraplegic creator of poems, patterns, stories, music, and sculpture, has been in print since 1974 with over 500 poems published.
Her collections include Embouchure: Poems on Jazz and Other Musics (Writer’s Digest Book Award), THEM GONE, and Otherwheres: Speculative Poetry (Elgin Award). Her honors include NEA & NYFA fellowships; SFPA, Rhysling, CRITTER & IGNYTE awards; and NYSCA grants.
She created the ongoing Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series and edited NOMBONO: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators, the first of its kind. Her collection, TELEPATH, will be published by Gnashing Teeth Publishing in 2026.
