New Year
A Reading
Indya Finch
Kayle Karbowski
Rebekah Rose
Emma Stewart
Sarah R. Stockton
December 31, 2020
6pm CST
As 2020 ends we consider how to frame this past year and the powerful restorative energy needed for the next year.
This event features writers and artists who will read and perform their work as a capstone to the year that was and as a motivation for what will come. "New Year: A Reading" is a reading of creative works and a forecast for our future.
This event will be streamed live on YouTube: https://youtu.be/v_mJSuNy-O8
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Indya Finch is a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship, she is attending the Iowa Writers Workshop, she lives and teaches in Iowa City.
Kayle Karbowski is an art witch, educator and organizer based in Milwaukee, WI – the land of the Ho-Chunk, Potawatomi, Menominee, Oneida and Ojibwe nations. She received her BFA from Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in 2015 and is currently the steward of psycho-spiritual consultancy and techno-apothecary, Other Dust. Karbowski’s work has been featured both nationally and internationally, and embraces liminality, otherness and cyclical exploration framed through a queer feminist lens. Her interests have led her to a range of output throughout her career including video, sculpture, performance, fashion, education, zines, gifs, coding, 3D modeling, and social practice. Karbowski was a recipient of the Mary L Nohl Suitcase Export Fund Award in 2016 and has participated in several residencies, including the MASS Gallery in Austin, TX (2016) and The Future in Minneapolis, MN (Dec 2018).
Rebekah Rose (she/they) is a queer artist and yoga/mindfulness teacher. She started practicing yoga in 2012, and began teaching in 2014. They teach from a trauma-informed lens because mental health is equally as important as physical health, and in order to heal we must honor the nuance of our individual experiences. She firmly believes that the way you do one thing is the way you do all things. If you are able to have compassion and understanding for yourself — your mental processes and physical abilities— then you can hold that same compassion for all beings as we work towards collective liberation. When they're not teaching, you can find them reposting frogs on instagram or in their bedroom drawing aliens and queers as they work towards their BFA in illustration at CSULB. Post-graduation, they plan to write and illustrate books for children as well as adult.
Emma Stewart (he/they/she) is a queer, transmasc, mixed race poet whose work has appeared in Matchbox Magazine. He has an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College is currently a PhD candidate at Texas Tech University. She enjoys sharing memes in excessive numbers with close friends and sending daily snapchats of his cat Tiger Lily to his parents, ignoring their demands for “pictures of your face, chango”. They can be found on twitter @theeyeteeth.
Sarah R. Stockton (she/they) is a poet and teacher in Los Angeles, and a creative writing MFA candidate at the CalArts School of Critical Studies. Her work has been featured in Dum Dum Zine, Peach, and DIALOGIST, and is forthcoming in Cimarron Review. She is currently writing a novel.