Featured Reader Crystal AC Salas Followed by Open-Mic

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Crystal Salas’ collection Of Grief Logic drew these comments from Poetry Judge Emma Trelles:

These poems read and sometimes physically appear like a sprawling Latinx pillowbook, filled with the intimate and honest particulars of family and what it means to navigate language, landscape, and girl/woman/hood. This chapbook is all heart, image, and sound — and then some.”

Of Nicholas Reiner’s Levitations, judge Emma Trelles said: “Equal parts lament, memoir, and lyric, this chapbook is written in a wholly original voice that is as accomplished as it is precise. Each poem reveals another sharply crafted layer of memory and observation — whether about family, chess, death, or how remembering is a way of keeping love intact.”