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Constellation #3: Correa, Smith, Keil

Tin House 2617 NW Thurman Street, Portland

After a memorable gathering last month, we invite you to join us at a new Constellation. In March we're hosting local writer Michelle Ruiz Keil and two writers from the Carolyn Moore Writers House residency: Cristina Correa and Kira Brooke Smith. Doors open at 6:45 and the reading starts around 7:15. Cristina Correa (she/her) is from Chicago and is the recipient of awards from CantoMundo, VONA/Voices, Hedgebrook Foundation, and more. Her writing has been featured in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, Missouri Review, Obsidian, NPR’s Latino USA, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Her poem “Reflection from a Bridge” was selected by former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith in the Best New Poets series. Kira Brooke Smith (she/her) is a nonfiction…

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