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Literati is pleased to welcome Christina Quintana and Sarah Sala in support of their recent chapbooks from Finishing Line Press. Raymond McDaniel and Keith Taylorwill also read.
Christina Quintana is a writer and theatre artist with Cuban and Louisiana roots. Her poem “He-lium” was recently featured on Radiolab’s “Elements” episode in collaboration with Emotive Fruition and her writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Nimrod International Journal, Gaslight: A Lambda Fellows Anthology, First Class Literary Magazine, Saw Palm, and Raspa Magazine. Her plays have been developed and produced in Atlanta, New Orleans, and New York City, where she curates the Live Lunch Series, lunchtime theatre catered to workplaces. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University and is the recipient of fellowships from Columbia School of the Arts and the Lambda Literary Foundation. For more, visit cquintana.com
Sarah Sala is a poet and educator who hails from Brooklyn, Michigan. She is the former editor-in-chief of the University of Michigan’s literary magazine, Oleander Review. Her poem “Hydrogen” was recently featured in the “Elements” episode of NPR’s hit show Radio Lab in collaboration with Emotive Fruition. The Ghost Assembly Line, a chapbook of her selected poetry is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in Spring 2016. Sala’s awards and honors include: an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Marjorie Rapport Award for Poetry, An Avery Hopwood Award for Nonfiction, and a Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship. Her poems appear in Poetry Ireland Review, Atlas Review, and the Stockholm Review of Literature. You can visit her at www.sarahsala.com.
“Sarah Sala’s work goes beyond our everyday use of a word like catharsis to its older definition, a purgation. It is urgent, and yet, in the many faces of violation here, there is a voice that wants to make us safe, and it does this by presenting America with its own broken surface. These poems burst from the seed of Yeats’s terrible beauty. They brandish themselves on blank space, praise what negation does to desire, and shiver gorgeously with rare kindness. In their gleam, we see splendor, outrage, and “a torrential downpour into nothingness.”” – Natalie Eilbert
Raymond McDaniel is the author of Murder, Saltwater Empire, Special Powers & Abilities, and in 2017 The Cataracts, all from Coffee House Press.
Keith Taylor coordinates the undergraduate program in creative writing at the University of Michigan, directs the Bear River Writer’s Conference, and is the poetry editor for Michigan Quarterly Review. He is the author of fifteen books of poetry, most recently Fidelities (Alice Greene & Co., 2015).
