Saturday, October 21st at 3:00pm.

Featuring  Crystal AC Salas and Lyz Merola. Crystal is an Individual Fellow artist of the California Arts Council, poetry editor of Break Bread Project and author of Greif Logic by Gunpowder press. Lyz Merola is a published poet and a recent graduate from CSUCI.
 
Crystal AC Salas is a Xicanx poet, essayist, educator, and community organizer. Her poetry chapbook Grief Logic is co-winner of the inaugural Alta California Prize, from Gunpowder Press. She has work in Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, Alta Journal, Northwest Review, [PANK] Magazine, World Literature Today, Chaparral Poetry, Acentos Review, and others. A founding member of the BreakBread Literacy Project, which elevates the voices of young creatives under 25, she serves as poetry editor for BreakBread Magazine. She holds an M.F.A. from University of California, Riverside and is the recipient of a 2021-2022 California Arts Council Established Individual Artist Fellowship.

 
Lyz Merola is a poet, yogi, and nature enthusiast living in Ventura. She is inspired by the magic that exists in all nature, and writes from the perspective of a curious observer. She is published in the newly published Solo Voyage, CSUCI’s Island Fox Literary journal, and has read at events throughout Ventura County.