Join our community of poets, writers, and storytellers. Anyone can take the mic for 3-5 minutes. Our featured reader Pichchenda Bao is a Cambodian American writer and poet, infant survivor of the Khmer Rouge, daughter of refugees, and feminist stay-at-home mother. Her honors include a 2021 Bethany Arts Community Poetry Residency, a 2020 New Work grant from the Queens Council on the Arts, and a 2018 Pushcart Prize nomination.
