LitHop 2022 - Schedule of Readings
Saturday, October 15th
12 to 12:45 PM
Another World is Possible
Reading Venue: Fresbrew (21 and over)
Alexandros Acedo (he/him), Jasmine Leiva (she/her), Kirk Stone (he/him), Matt Sedillo (he/him)
A call was made out for socialist poets, and these four disgruntled yet hopeful poets showed up. They will share on the state of the world, the zeitgeist, politics, and culture. We see the harm, pain, and suffering in the world, and know, that another world is possible.
Fresno City College Student Poets
Reading Venue: Labyrinth Art Collective
Fresno City College student poets Emilie Cunha, Jamie Gilliland, Christine Henderson, Anjali Kapoor-Davis, Katie Quigley, Carlos Rodriguez, and Alyssa Webster will read their original work.
The Loud Mouth Poetry Jam Presents: The Mid-Valley Mystics
Reading Venue: The Revue (Backroom)
Tino Rayos (he/him), Isaias the Hero (he/him), Maritza "La Mariposa" Altamirano (she/her), Shane Lara Jr. (he/him)
Throughout this Summer, Visalia's Loud Mouth Poetry Jam has brought together 4 poets from all across the Central Valley to be our representative team for various competitions across California and within the National Slam community. This reading will culminate into a showcase of each of these poets' individual growth over the season as well as group performances and the stories behind the poems. The Central Valley has always been home to some of the World's best poets, and the Mid-Valley Mystics prove that to still be true!
Please Pull Your Mask Up: Teaching Stories From Pandemia
Reading Venue: Spectrum Art Gallery
Gabi Cruz-Brittsan (she/her/hers), Alison Mandaville, René Rodríguez Astacio (he/him/él), Jacob Simmons (he/him/his)
Zoom boxes, absenteeism, faces, masks, drive-by graduations, returning to no-normal. It has been quite a ride in our classrooms the past couple of years – for all of us. Four Central Valley creative writers and English teachers, both high school and college, read with love and passion from their multi-genre works on teaching and learning and escaping and surviving during the pandemic.
Dark Comedy
Reading Venue: Splash Fresno (21 and over)
James Espinoza, Apryl Lewis, Lisa Lieberman, Liz Scheid
Tragedy + time = humor is the age-old equation for comedy. Dark comedy, or “gallows humor,” coined by Sigmund Freud in the 1920s, describes the humorous response elicited by hopelessness and despair. But, perhaps, Woody Allen, a king of dark comedy says it best in his film Annie Hall: “There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, ‘Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.’ The other one says, ‘Yeah, I know; and such small portions.’ Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.”
