Bad Mouth words | music | feelings

Saturday, September 28 | 7 p.m.

GREGORY MARTIN is the author of the memoir Stories for Boys, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers

pick and the Seattle Reads One City, One Book selection for 2013. Martin’s first book, Mountain City, received a Washington State Book Award, was named a New York Times Notable Book, and is referred to by some people in Mountain City as “the book.” Martin’s work has appeared in such magazines as The Sun, Image, Kenyon Review Online, Witness, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He teaches creative writing at the University of New Mexico.

CATHERINE STRISIK is the author of Insectum Gravitis, The Mistress, winner of the 2017 New Mexico-

Arizona Book Award in Poetry; Thousand-Cricket Song; and a manuscript-in-progress, Caterina. Strisik’s poems appear in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Poet Lore, Drunken Boat, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, and elsewhere, and have been translated into Persian and Greek. Strisik has received grants, honors, and prizes from CutThroat, Peregrine, Comstock Review, The Southwest Literary Center, and ThePuffin Foundation, as well as residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Truchas Peaks Place, and Christ in the Desert Monastery.

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CHRISTINA SOCORRO YOVOVICH

lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

She has an MFA in poetry and nonfiction and her poetry has appeared in journals such as Blue Mesa Review and River Styx. Her nonfiction has appeared in Mutha Magazine. She is at work on a memoir of her mental

illness and parenting.

ZACK FREEMAN is a looping, sampling acapella performer. He’s been looping in New Mexico since

2004. While primarily a beatboxer/vocal percussionist, Zack also is a serious lyricist. He takes the struggles of the ordinary and brings them to center stage, placing the humanity in a groove that moves the heart and body. The majority of his inspiration comes from his life as a husband and father and son in a mixed race family. Zack has appeared on America’s Got Talent and the Jerry Lewis Telethon in addition to performing all over the United States at colleges, fairs, and festivals. But that was a long time ago, and now he mostly goes to work and tries to keep up with his teenager. Zack is a simple person trying to explain complex problems… which is why he uses beatboxing to make one-sidedarguments through music. At his current job, he is a one-manproduction team doing design, motion graphics, video, and music production.

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