Events
River Writing is for everyone and we'd love to welcome you to the table. If the $40 tuition presents a barrier to your participation, please request sliding scale. If you'd like to dive in a bit deeper, consider joining a multi-week series. Click here to see our current schedule.
Confluence: A Reading with Moudi Sbeity on 9/18/25
Thursday, September 18th 6-7pm MST.
Meeting on Zoom.
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Everyone is invited! (16+)
Join us for the sheer pleasure of listening!
About our Featured Poet, Moudi Sbeity
Moudi is a first-generation Lebanese-American currently enrolled in the Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling masters program at Naropa University. Prior to attending Naropa, they co-owned and operated a Lebanese restaurant in Salt Lake City, which served as a queer safe space. Moudi was also a named plaintiff in Kitchen v. Herbert, the landmark case that brought marriage equality to Utah in 2014. As a person who stutters, they are passionate about writing and poetry as transpersonal practices in self-expression.Moudi has two upcoming books. A poetry collection titled Want A World (Fernwood Press) expected in the summer of 2026, and a memoir titled Habibi Means Beloved (University of Utah Press) expected in late 2026.
About River Writing
We write together in circles shaped by community agreements. This is the practice: we read poetry aloud to find a prompt and then write with pen and paper to say the truest thing we can say. Before beginning, we agree to be kind, to keep each other’s confidence, and to listen to each other with undivided attention. We agree to take care of ourselves and to share responsibility for creating a welcoming space. Everyone is invited. We practice non-judgement by forgoing apology, critique, and praise. It can be a challenge not to praise, but we opt out temporarily in order to take respite from the culture of comparison. Whether or not a participant chooses to read, we respond simply by saying thank you.