Upcoming Events
Bad Mouth: Chile roasting EDITION
Saturday, sept. 6 @ 7pm; doors open @ 6:30
Craving something spicy roasted in a supermarket parking lot?
Hey! That's Bad Mouth!
Encouraged donations of $5-$20 are most welcome. Proceeds from September's event will go to support NM Dream Team. Reserve your tickets here.
Our Friends:
Lisa Hase-Jackson
Lisa M. Hase-Jackson is author of Insomnia in Another Town (Clemson University Press 2024), which received the 2024 Nelson Poetry Book Prize, and Flint and Fire (The Word Works 2019). She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Pittsburgh.
Gary Jackson
Gary Jackson is the author of the poetry collections small lives (forthcoming September 2025), origin story, and Missing You, Metropolis. He is co-editor of the anthology, The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry, and is the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair of English at the University of Pittsburgh and the Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.
Christina Socorro Yovovich
Christina Socorro Yovovich has been a writer since forever, and fiber artist since 2021 or so. She's a bipolar, fat, autistic Latina with PTSD and ADHD who isn’t afraid of a label and who likes to make trouble with her words and peace with her handcrafts.
Keith Burnstein
Keith Burnstein is a singer-songwriter, pianist, and film composer. His most recent LP, Things That Are Heavy Make Me Feel Light, was made through a generous grant from The Threadhead Foundation, and can be downloaded on this site and via all major digital retailers.
Since 2015, Keith has been composing music for film, radio, stage, and small screen. Recent projects include 2018's Emmy-winning documentary, Momentum Generation, Viola Lee's The Last Defense, and the NPR series, Tripod. In 2022, "KB" was commissioned by the University of Alabama and The Key West Contemporary Dance Ensemble to compose original music for a project that amplifies the voices of women incarcerated in the United States. Keith is thrilled to be debuting original music for the docuseries, Eyes on the Prize 3, which premiered on HBO Max February 25, 2025.