Confluence: A Reading from the River on 4/10/25

Thursday, April 10th 6-7pm MST.
Meeting on Zoom.
Register before April 10th 5pm to receive the link
Uncensored. Everyone is invited! (16+)
Join us for the sheer pleasure of listening!
Featured poet, Sarah May

Our Readers
Karen Bayard
Tiffany Burns
Moudi Sbeity
Marybeth Jarvis Clark
Karen Bean
Cat Cates
Debbie Fetters
Suzy Eskenazi
Maria Davis
nan seymour

About Sarah May
Our featured poet Sarah May will open with selections from her new book "Our stories are our bodies". Sarah May is a Salvadoreña artist, weaver, poet, and bruja who has long called the Lake home. As someone who lives in the in-between of multiple worlds and identities, Great Salt Lake is a sacred place where she is seen and held in all she is and where she cultivated her magic into the artist, poet, and storyteller she is today. Sarah served as the Director for the 2025 Great Salt Lake Vigil at the Capitol.

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 hard not to praise, but we choose to opt out temporarily in order to take respite from the culture of comparison. When a participant chooses to read, we respond simply by saying thank you.