Join Yellow Arrow Publishing on August 3 from 4-7pm at Motor House for I'm Speaking, a reading featuring Baltimore-area writers who identify as women. Featured poets include Matilda Young, who was guest editor for Yellow Arrow Journal's latest issue on KINDLING and a Yellow Arrow Writer-in-Residence in 2020, Zorina Exie Frey, whose work was featured in KINDLING as well as UpSpring, Emily Decker, whose poetry was also featured in KINDLING, Patti Ross, our Board Author Support Director whose work was featured in St Paul Street Provocations and Poetry is Life, and Kerry Graham, a Yellow Arrow Writer-In-Residence in 2019 whose work was featured in Yellow Arrow Vignette.
Motor House is a creative crossroads rooted in the culture of Baltimore. We are grateful to them for hosting us for this reading. A portion of proceeds will go towards funding Yellow Arrow's commitment to empowering women-identifying writers in Baltimore and beyond.
Date: August 3
Time: 4:00PM-7:00PM
Where: 120 W North Ave Baltimore, MD 21201
About the poets:
Matilda Young is a writer working for a civil rights nonprofit with an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Maryland. She lives in DC with a poet, an environmental lawyer, and an angry ginger cat. She has been published in several journals, including Sakura Review, the Golden Key, and District Lit.
Zorina Exie Frey is an essayist, screenwriter, and spoken word poet working as a publishing content writer and digital designer. Her writings are featured in Shondaland, Shoutout Miami, Chicken Soup for the Soul: I’m Speaking Now and 2022’s The American Journal of Poetry. Zorina is also a writing instructor for Writing Class Radio.
After some time away from writing, Emily Decker is returning to her love of the poetic form. Bornin Portsmouth, Virginia and raised in Ghana and in Atlanta, Georgia, her work often explores the themes of home and where the question of place meets the natural world. She now lives in Baltimore, Maryland and is working on her first chapbook. She enjoys dabbling in other artforms as well, and you can often find her on a community theater stage, singing with the National Cathedral Choral Society, or sailing around the Baltimore harbor.
Patti Ross graduated from Washington, DC's Duke Ellington School for the Performing Arts and The American University. After graduation several of her journalist pieces were published in the Washington Times and the Rural America newspapers. Retiring from a career in technology Patti has rediscovered her love of writing and shares her voice as the spoken word artist "little pi." Her poems are published in the Pen In Hand Journal, PoetryXHunger website and Oyster River Pages: Composite Dreams Issue. Her debut chapbook, St. Paul Street Provocations, will be released in 2021 by Yellow Arrow Publishing. Follow her blog at: https://littlepisuniverse.com
Kerry Graham lives, teaches, writes, and runs in East Baltimore, Maryland. Her vignettes have appeared in Borrowed Solace, The Citron Review, Crack the Spine, and Gravel. Her most recent essays are in HuffPost, and she runs a collaborative newsletter called In This Together.