LitHop 2022 - Schedule of Readings
Saturday, October 15th

2 to 2:45 PM

At the Intersection
Reading Venue: Labyrinth Art Collective

Carolina Mata (she/her), Sydney Hinton (she/her), Karissa Ellison (she/her), Melinda Medeiros (she/her) 

We are women writers; some of us queer, some of us fat, some of us brown. All of us fresh out of finishing a writing program (MFA) in the midst of a global pandemic. All of us exploring the intersections we know: families, social constructs, systems of oppression, and so much more. All trying to trace the roads that led us here, find the roads that will lead us out, and celebrate the roads that bring us together.

Poets de Fresno: It Calls You Back
Reading Venue: The Revue (Backroom)

Brotha Kenneth Chacón (he/him/that vato), Joseph Rios (he/him), Marisol Baca (she/her), Sylvia Savala (she/her) 

Xican@ poets with deep Fresno roots. 

A Reading with the San Joaquin Literary Association
Reading Venue: Splash Fresno (21 and over)

Rosie Bates, Mialise Carney, Amber Carpenter, sami h. tripp (they/m) 

Two essayists, a poet, and a fiction writer walk into a bar…to read a selection of their latest work. Representing Fresno State’s MFA program and the San Joaquin Literary Association, their work explores themes of gender and sexuality, grief and anxiety, and the complicated (power)lessness of owning a body. With a balance of sincerity and humor, they will take you on a journey through the dark in search of a truth that is sharp and shining. 

Primxs in Grief 
Reading Venue: Spectrum Art Gallery

Crystal AC Salas (she/her/ella), Nicholas Reiner (he/him), Angel Dominguez, Sara Borjas (she/her) 

Four Latinx writers from four different corners of California join together to read from their new works which engage with the idea of grief as inherited through their raizes, also further thickened by systemic oppressions upon their communities. However heavy the theme, this will not solely be a reading about suffering, but rather the resistance required to find the beauty in survival, the refusal to forget, the fight in carrying not on, but through. Multitudes. These explorations of community grieving connect these poets not by blood, but rather as primxs in poem. 

American Dreaming
Reading Venue: Teazers

Michael Cantu, Andy Marin Contreras, Alberto Saldaña Uribe, Cristina Sandoval 

Four poets exploring the effects of family, life, and death while striving to advance in an increasingly hostile American society.