Celebrate the launch of Fletch Fletcher‘s Confessional (Finishing Line Press, 2024) with readings by Michael Lee Bross, Roberto Carlos Garcia, Michelle Greco, Darla Himeles, and Yesenia Montilla! Readings in Kray Hall with a reception to follow in the Viscusi Reading Room. We have a 70-person capacity, so please RSVP early.

About the Poets:

Michael Lee Bross holds an MFA in Poetry from Drew University. His debut poetry chapbook, Meditations on an Empty Stomach was published by Finishing Line Press (October 2019), and his poems have appeared Lifeboat, Mobius Poetry Magazine, and Let’s Talk Philadelphia, among others. Michael currently teaches English at the University of Scranton and East Stroudsburg University.

Fletch Fletcher is a poet (obviously), a science teacher, a brother, and a bunch of other random things that may or may not help you understand him. He was lucky enough to work with and learn from amazing poets while getting an MFA in Poetry at Drew University. Fletcher’s first collection, Existing Science (2021), was published by Assure Press.

Poet, storyteller, and essayist Roberto Carlos Garcia is rigorously interrogative of himself and the world around him, and writes extensively about the Afro-Latinx and Afro-diasporic experience. His poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, The BreakBeat Poets Vol 4: LatiNEXT, Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3, The Root, and many others.

Michelle Greco is a Latina poet who both lives and teaches in Pennsylvania. She holds an MFA from Drew University and is the author of the chapbook Field Guide to Fire (Finishing Line Press,2015). Her poems have appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, The Stillwater Review, Edison Literary Review, and the anthology Dear Sister, among others.

Darla Himeles is a Philadelphia-based poet, translator, and essayist. A Pushcart-Prize and Best-of-the-Net nominee, Darla can be read in recent and forthcoming issues of Lesbians are Miracles, Orange Blossom Review, The Massachusetts Review, and The Night Heron Barks, among others. Himeles is the assistant director Temple University’s writing center and teaches undergraduate poetry workshops.

Yesenia Montilla is an Afro-Latina poet & a daughter of immigrants. She is a CantoMundo graduate fellow and a 2020 NYFA fellow. Her work has been published in Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, and in Best of American Poetry. Her first collection The Pink Box was longlisted for a PEN Open Book award. Her second collection Muse Found in a Colonized Body was nominated for an NAACP Image Award.