Jacob Saenz, David Welch, and Omaris Z. Zamora
5pm Sunday, February 17th
eighth street taproom
Jacob Saenz is the author of Throwing the
Crown, winner of the 2018 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Gregory
Pardlo. His work has appeared in PANK,
Poetry, Tammy, and other journals. A CantoMundo fellow, he's been the
recipient of a Letras Latinas Residency and a Ruth Lilly Poetry
Fellowship. He serves as an associate editor for RHINO.
David Welch is the author of the
collection Everyone Who Is Dead as well as a chapbook, It
Is Such a Good Thing to Be In Love with You, and has
poems recently published or forthcoming in journals including AGNI, Boston
Review, and Pleiades. The recipient of a Tennessee
Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Lucille
Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Welch teaches at
DePaul University where he is Assistant Director of Literary Programs and
Outreach. Visit him virtually at www.davidwelch.me
Omaris Z. Zamora is an AfroLatina spoken-word poet from Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood. As a teen she competed in Louder Than Bomb's Youth Slam Poetry Festival. She
has published her work in the Dominican diaspora digital magazine, La Galería, as well as local Chicago youth magazines sponsored through BUILD, Inc.--a youth development agency. Zamora is in the process of developing her first poetry chap book about what it means to be AfroLatinx/Dominican, the praxis of Black Feminisms, intimacy, and forgiveness. Her poetry is a means of healing and hoping to find understanding for the things she doesn't understand. Zamora is an Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Kansas.
