Rebecca Hawkes & Open Mic

7:45pm - Sign up for Open Mic on Zoom chat

8:00pm - Rebecca Hawkes reading

8:15pm - Open Mic begins

9:10pm - Announcements and Farewells

Rebecca Hawkes is a queer painter-poet from rural Aotearoa New Zealand. Her first book was Meat Lovers (AUP), finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in the US and winner of a Laurel Prize for ecopoetry in the UK. Her chapbooks are Softcore Coldsores (AUP New Poets) and Hardcore Pastorals (Cordite). She is lead editor of NZ poetry journal Sweet Mammalian and co-edited the Pacific climate poetics anthology No Other Place to Stand. Rebecca recently completed an MFA in yearning (and, to a lesser extent, poetry) at the University of Michigan in the USA, where her poems have won prizes from Palette Poetry, Salt Hill, Yes Yes Books, the Hopwood Awards, and the Academy of American Poets. New work is appearing in places like The Threepenny Review, Noir Sauna, HAD, Phoebe, and The Georgia Review, with murmurs of a new book on the way...

We are grateful for the support of The Arts Council and Limerick City & County Council.

Zoom closed-captions will be made available for this event.

Participation is limited to the first 100 guests to join.