• As It Happens and Other Fairy Tales

    As It Happens and Other Fairy Tales
    Stargazer Cottage 1292 N Ferger, Fresno, CA, United States

    Join four dramatically-inclined women for a hot bevvie and writing that examines the stories we tell about our lives. Through essays, poems, and whimsical meanderings, the writers of Elastic Ink explore the space where truth blurs into myth and memory feels suspiciously like a fairy tale. These are stories “as it happens” and as we… Read More »As It Happens and Other Fairy Tales

  • A Hot Flash Gospel

    A Hot Flash Gospel
    The Lotus Room 626 E Olive Ave, Fresno, CA, United States

    A Hot Flash Gospel is a bold, intimate one-woman spoken word experience that feels like revival, confession, and revolution all at once. Through poetry, storytelling, and sharp wit, LadyK navigates menopause, faith, grief, desire, Black womanhood, and spiritual reclamation...challenging who gets to preach, who gets believed, and whose bodies are deemed sacred. This is not… Read More »A Hot Flash Gospel

  • Electric Confessions: I Am Revolution

    Electric Confessions: I Am Revolution
    Art Annex 814 E Olive Ave, Fresno, CA, United States

    From Fresno’s streets, Eve Reiland — a neurodivergent voice — turns lived survival into fearless, uncontainable poetic revolution. Fifteen years labeled “severely disabled” taught her what it means to be unseen, misunderstood, and underestimated. Yet here she exists still unbroken, carrying every tremor, bruise, and heartbeat into words that resist erasure. This is not performance.… Read More »Electric Confessions: I Am Revolution

  • A Hot Flash Gospel

    A Hot Flash Gospel
    The Lotus Room 626 E Olive Ave, Fresno, CA, United States

    A Hot Flash Gospel is a bold, intimate one-woman spoken word experience that feels like revival, confession, and revolution all at once. Through poetry, storytelling, and sharp wit, LadyK navigates menopause, faith, grief, desire, Black womanhood, and spiritual reclamation...challenging who gets to preach, who gets believed, and whose bodies are deemed sacred. This is not… Read More »A Hot Flash Gospel

  • As It Happens and Other Fairy Tales

    As It Happens and Other Fairy Tales
    Stargazer Cottage 1292 N Ferger, Fresno, CA, United States

    Join four dramatically-inclined women for a hot bevvie and writing that examines the stories we tell about our lives. Through essays, poems, and whimsical meanderings, the writers of Elastic Ink explore the space where truth blurs into myth and memory feels suspiciously like a fairy tale. These are stories “as it happens” and as we… Read More »As It Happens and Other Fairy Tales

  • Electric Confessions: I Am Revolution

    Electric Confessions: I Am Revolution
    Art Annex 814 E Olive Ave, Fresno, CA, United States

    From Fresno’s streets, Eve Reiland — a neurodivergent voice — turns lived survival into fearless, uncontainable poetic revolution. Fifteen years labeled “severely disabled” taught her what it means to be unseen, misunderstood, and underestimated. Yet here she exists still unbroken, carrying every tremor, bruise, and heartbeat into words that resist erasure. This is not performance.… Read More »Electric Confessions: I Am Revolution

  • Fresno Writers Live

    Fresno Writers Live
    Veni Vidi Vici 1116 N Fulton St, Fresno, CA, United States

    U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera says that Fresno is the "Capital of Poetry in the World." The Fresno State Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing takes that literary legacy seriously. Hear the latest poetry and prose from emerging #FresnoWriters in this storytelling and spoken word show, including voices from the Chicanx… Read More »Fresno Writers Live

  • A Hot Flash Gospel

    A Hot Flash Gospel
    The Lotus Room 626 E Olive Ave, Fresno, CA, United States

    A Hot Flash Gospel is a bold, intimate one-woman spoken word experience that feels like revival, confession, and revolution all at once. Through poetry, storytelling, and sharp wit, LadyK navigates menopause, faith, grief, desire, Black womanhood, and spiritual reclamation...challenging who gets to preach, who gets believed, and whose bodies are deemed sacred. This is not… Read More »A Hot Flash Gospel

  • Fresno Writers Live

    Fresno Writers Live
    Veni Vidi Vici 1116 N Fulton St, Fresno, CA, United States

    U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera says that Fresno is the "Capital of Poetry in the World." The Fresno State Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing takes that literary legacy seriously. Hear the latest poetry and prose from emerging #FresnoWriters in this storytelling and spoken word show, including voices from the Chicanx… Read More »Fresno Writers Live

  • Electric Confessions: I Am Revolution

    Electric Confessions: I Am Revolution
    Art Annex 814 E Olive Ave, Fresno, CA, United States

    From Fresno’s streets, Eve Reiland — a neurodivergent voice — turns lived survival into fearless, uncontainable poetic revolution. Fifteen years labeled “severely disabled” taught her what it means to be unseen, misunderstood, and underestimated. Yet here she exists still unbroken, carrying every tremor, bruise, and heartbeat into words that resist erasure. This is not performance.… Read More »Electric Confessions: I Am Revolution

  • A Hot Flash Gospel

    A Hot Flash Gospel
    The Lotus Room 626 E Olive Ave, Fresno, CA, United States

    A Hot Flash Gospel is a bold, intimate one-woman spoken word experience that feels like revival, confession, and revolution all at once. Through poetry, storytelling, and sharp wit, LadyK navigates menopause, faith, grief, desire, Black womanhood, and spiritual reclamation...challenging who gets to preach, who gets believed, and whose bodies are deemed sacred. This is not… Read More »A Hot Flash Gospel

  • Fresno Writers Live

    Fresno Writers Live
    Veni Vidi Vici 1116 N Fulton St, Fresno, CA, United States

    U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera says that Fresno is the "Capital of Poetry in the World." The Fresno State Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing takes that literary legacy seriously. Hear the latest poetry and prose from emerging #FresnoWriters in this storytelling and spoken word show, including voices from the Chicanx… Read More »Fresno Writers Live

  • Electric Confessions: I Am Revolution

    Electric Confessions: I Am Revolution
    Art Annex 814 E Olive Ave, Fresno, CA, United States

    From Fresno’s streets, Eve Reiland — a neurodivergent voice — turns lived survival into fearless, uncontainable poetic revolution. Fifteen years labeled “severely disabled” taught her what it means to be unseen, misunderstood, and underestimated. Yet here she exists still unbroken, carrying every tremor, bruise, and heartbeat into words that resist erasure. This is not performance.… Read More »Electric Confessions: I Am Revolution

  • A Hot Flash Gospel

    A Hot Flash Gospel
    The Lotus Room 626 E Olive Ave, Fresno, CA, United States

    A Hot Flash Gospel is a bold, intimate one-woman spoken word experience that feels like revival, confession, and revolution all at once. Through poetry, storytelling, and sharp wit, LadyK navigates menopause, faith, grief, desire, Black womanhood, and spiritual reclamation...challenging who gets to preach, who gets believed, and whose bodies are deemed sacred. This is not… Read More »A Hot Flash Gospel

  • Fresno Writers Live

    Fresno Writers Live
    Veni Vidi Vici 1116 N Fulton St, Fresno, CA, United States

    U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera says that Fresno is the "Capital of Poetry in the World." The Fresno State Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing takes that literary legacy seriously. Hear the latest poetry and prose from emerging #FresnoWriters in this storytelling and spoken word show, including voices from the Chicanx… Read More »Fresno Writers Live