Thursday February 18 * 8pm * RSVP to receive Zoom link

Local Takoma Park publisher, Blue Figure Press invites you to a mellow reading of new voices in poetry and fiction. Bring a glass of wine, a cup of tea, and lean in with your whole body, or simply add these words to the ambience of your evening. Be as intimate as you like but be with us, at Rhizome.

Isabel Sobral Campos’ poetry has appeared in the Boston Review, Brooklyn Rail, as well as in the anthologies BAX 2018: Best American Experimental Writing and Dispatches from the Poetry Wars:Poetics for the More-Than-Human World. She is the co-founder of the Sputnik & Fizzle publishing series. How to Make Words of Ruble was published by Blue Figure Press in 2020.

Chris Carson is the cofounder and managing editor of Blue Figure Press. A journalist turned poet, his writing has appeared in the Bay Area Reporter, Flaunt Magazine, and Otherwhere’s Magazine. Blue Figure Press published Segue, his first collection of poetry, in 2019

Seda Mimaroglu is a poet and writer from Istanbul with an academic background in law, comparative literature, art history, and philosophy. She lives and works in Berlin. In 2019, Mimaroglu’s Loose Leaves was released on audiotape by the Berliner Wanda imprint. Her latest collection, Love Songs, will be published by Blue Figure Press in spring of 2021.

Aaron Kingon is a writer, hitchhiker and baker from San Francisco. His fiction, essays and poems have appeared in Otherwhere’s Magazine, Keepeyes Magazine and other local SF zines. He is pursuing an MFA from San Francisco State University with a focus on creative nonfiction.