An Afternoon of Poetry with fahima ife, Melissa Mack & Jennifer Tseng

Saturday, December 12 · 4 to 5:30 PM
The Art Bloc Sausalito
200 Gate 5 Road, Suite 110, Sausalito

As the year winds down, The Art Bloc invites you to slow down with us for an afternoon of poetry.

fahima ife, Melissa Mack, and Jennifer Tseng will share work that moves between the lyrical, the experimental, and the deeply personal. Our poetry salons are some of our favorite gatherings at The Art Bloc: unhurried, warm, and the kind of afternoon that stays with you. Come for the reading and stay for conversation with the poets and your neighbors.

No RSVP needed. Just come by.

About the poets

fahima ife is an Indigenous poet, professor, and editor, a California native based in California. She is the author of Septet for the Luminous Ones (Wesleyan University Press, 2024) and Maroon Choreography (Duke University Press, 2021). Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Brooklyn Rail, American Academy of Poets Poem-a-Day, Poetry Daily, Obsidian, Indiana Review, and other places. She is associate professor of Aesthetics & Poetics at UC Santa Cruz. She co-founded and co-edits a tiny press, LUCIUS, for experimental poetry and poetics. 

Melissa Mack is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Creative/Critical Studies at UC Santa Cruz, with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Her new poems appear in Monterey Poetry Review.

Jennifer Tseng is an award-winning poet and fiction writer. Her new memoir in essays, Mixed Feelings, is an account of growing up in a multi-heritage, bilingual home; an autobiography of reading and seeing through multiple lenses; and a meditation on ambivalence. She is an associate professor of literature & creative writing at University of California, Santa Cruz.