Sarah Thursday and Kimberly Esslinger at the Ugly Mug!

Sarah Thursday is a poet, arts advocate, and music lover. She has been published in many fine journals and anthologies, interviewed by Poetry LA, and received a 2017 Best of the Net nomination. She has two full-length collections, All the Tiny Anchors and Conversations with Gravel.

More info at SarahThursday.com

Kimberly Esslinger is a poet and digital media producer. Her work explores identity, queer wonder, and the ruptures and absurdities of daily suburban living in Southern California. She recently started SNAP! Press to publish Morning Writes, a collaborative project of four lesbian poets over 60. Her next project is SNAP! Poetry Review, a journal set to launch later this year. Her work has appeared in Smartish Pace, Calyx, Spillway, Los Angeles Review, Nerve Cowboy, and Chiron Review.

When she’s not writing, Kimberly could be brewing kombucha, organizing a Dyke March, producing a podcast with her wife on lesbian bars, or tending her unruly community garden plot. She believes growing your own food—like hope, like poetry—is a radical act of resistance. Her personal mottos are "Seek Wonder!" and "It is never too late to be who you might have been." — George Eliot.

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