Third Thursday is a monthly poetry program in partnership with Poetry Center San José and hosted by Mighty Mike McGee!
Willow Glen Public Library, 1157 Minnesota Ave, San José, 95125.
Sign up for the open mic begins at 6:30pm. Featured poet begins shortly after 7pm. Open mic to follow.
Sharing snacks is welcome.
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Our guest poets tonight are Kirk Glaser and Jarvis Subia!
Kirk Glaser is a poet and prose writer whose work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and appeared in over fifty publications, including The San Francisco Chronicle, The Threepenny Review, Nimrod, Chicago Quarterly Review, Catamaran, and elsewhere. Awards for his work include an American Academy of Poets prize, C. H. Jones National Poetry Prize, University of California Poet Laureate Award, Gertrude Stein Fiction Award Finalist/The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, New Millennium Writings Contest Finalist, and Richard Eberhart Poetry Award/Southeast Literary Review. His poetry collection, The House That Fire Built, will be published in 2025 by MadHat Press. A Teaching Professor at Santa Clara University, he serves as Director of the Creative Writing Program and Faculty Advisor to the Santa Clara Review. He is co-editor of the anthology, New California Writing 2013, Heyday.
Jarvis Subia is a Queer Latinx poet, educator, and performer originally from San José’s Seven Trees neighborhood, now based in Boston. With over a decade in spoken word and youth arts education, Jarvis is a 2019 Poetry Foundation Incubator Fellow and a former Programming Fellow with Harvard’s HipHopEx Lab. He earned his Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he studied the impact of spoken word in K–12 schools. A published author (Hello Joy, Black Lawrence Press), Jarvis has competed in 14 national poetry slams and his work appears in FEMS Anthology, Acentos Review, and Mother Tongue Anthology.
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Poetry Center San José's mission is to nurture and promote diverse literary expression in our community as a means of exploring, defining, and enriching the human experience. For those under 18 years of age who may be attending, we recommend that a parent/legal guardian be with you during the program.
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