Celebrate the work of Lory Bedikian, Saba Keramati, Megan Pinto, and Eduardo Martínez-Leyva with readings from their new books and a discussion on craft.
Bedikian will read from Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body (University of Nebraska Press, 2024); Keramati will read from Self-Mythology (University of Arkansas Press, 2024); Pinto will read from Saints of Little Faith (Four Way Books, 2024); and Eduardo Martínez-Leyva will read from Cowboy Park (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024).
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About the Poets:
Lory Bedikian‘s collection The Book of Lamenting won the Philip Levine Prize and her forthcoming book Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body won the 2023 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize. Several of Bedikian’s poems received the First Prize Award in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry as part of the 2022 Nimrod Literary Awards. Her work is published in Miramar, Tin House, The Los Angeles Review, Northwest Review, BOULEVARD, The Adroit Journal, Literary Matters, Orion, wildness, and was featured on Pádraig Ó Tuama’s Poetry Unbound podcast.
Saba Keramati is a Chinese-Iranian writer from California. Her debut poetry collection, Self-Mythology, was selected by Patricia Smith for the Miller Williams Poetry Series. A winner of the Discovery Poetry Prize, Saba’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lit Hub, Kenyon Review, Adroit Journal, The Margins, and other publications. She is the poetry editor for Sundog Lit.
Megan Pinto is the author of Saints of Little Faith, her debut collection. Her poems can be found in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ploughshares, Lit Hub and elsewhere. She has won the Anne Halley Prize from the Massachusetts Review and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers, as well as scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference and Storyknife.
Eduardo Martínez-Leyva was born in El Paso, TX to Mexican immigrants. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Boston Review, The Journal, Frontier Poetry, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. He’s received fellowships from CantoMundo, The Frost Place, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Lambda Literary Foundation, and a teaching fellowship from Columbia University, where he earned his MFA. His debut poetry collection, Cowboy Park, was selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson as the winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry.