Sundress Academy for the Arts Presents February Reading Series

The Sundress Academy for the Arts is pleased to announce the guests for the February installment of our reading series, poets Minadora Macheret and Topaz Winter. Join us on Thursday, February 15th at Pretentious Beer Co. from 7:00-9:00 PM for a reading followed by an open mic hosted by Shlagha Borah. Sign up for the open mic begins at 7 PM sharp and is limited to 10-12 readers.

Minadora Macheret is a Herbert Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Texas. Her work has appeared in Brevity, Salamander, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of, Love Me, Anyway (Porkbelly Press, 2018).

Topaz Winters is the Singaporean American author of So, Stranger (Button Poetry 2022), Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing (Button Poetry 2019), & poems for the sound of the sky before thunder (Math Paper Press 2017). She serves as editor-in-chief of Half Mystic Press, an independent, international, & interdisciplinary publishing project, & as co-editor of Kopi Break, a journal of new Singapore poetry. Her work has been published in & featured by Poets.org, The Drift, Passages North, Hobart, The Boiler, The Straits Times, American Banker, The Business Times, the National University of Singapore, & the Center for Fiction. She lives between New York & Singapore

This event is brought to you in part by grants provided by The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry and the Tennessee Arts Commission.

Each month we split donations with our community partner. Our community partner for February is Bryant’s Bridge. Bryant’s Bridge intends to provide affordable housing and a safe space to prevent homelessness and promote the successful transition from youth to adulthood.

This organization was created to be a safe place and a long-term option with the goal of making linkages to supportive services that can help people heal and grow through the gap until they can become fully functioning, stable adults with a promising life ahead of them. Find more about the important work they do here.