Field Trip #3 is on 11/23
Laaura Goldstein, Aiko Fukuchi & Katelyn Rivas
How are you holding up? It’s been a rough couple of weeks for sure. But there is a very important poetry reading happening that I think you should know about.
Laaura Goldstein, Aiko Fukuchi & Katelyn Rivas will be reading for FIELD TRIP #3. It will all happen Saturday 11/23 at 7pm at your favorite co-op bookstore in Hamtramck: Book Suey. I really do hope to see you there.
Definitely grab yourself a few copies of our special Book Spooky zines before they disappear. Or shoot me a message if you’d like a copy mailed.
Just a heads up that there will NO FIELD TRIP in December. But definitely stay tuned for some events in 2025 that I’m honestly still pinching myself about.
In the meantime, feel free to say hi to me at 27th Letter in Detroit on Wednesday 11/20.
ABOUT THE READERS:
Laaura Goldstein's first collection of poetry, loaded arc, was released by Trembling Pillow Press in 2013 and their second collection, awesome camera was published by Make Now Press in 2014. They also have published several chapbooks with vibrant small presses across the country as well. They began their teaching career in Philadelphia for the Center for Literacy and Poetry for the People and are now a Senior Lecturer in Core Literature and Writing at Loyola University Chicago doing work in antiracism and serving as faculty advisor for Students for Justice in Palestine.
Aiko Fukuchi (they/them) lives in Detroit, Michigan. They are a student of Transformative Justice, Abolition and Environmental Justice, and invest in movements from the context of Japanese American history and culture. Their chapbook, 'The First Mirror is a Night Sky' was published by Bulk Space in 2023.
Katelyn Rivas (she/they) is a poet, essayist, researcher, teaching artist and mother who examines themes of Black girlhood, transracial adoption, motherhood, abolition and care for Black bodies through their work. She completed an MA from Eastern University in Urban Studies and Community Arts and has a BA in English and Writing and Art and Design from Northern Michigan University. In 2019, she published the chapbook “Radical Self-Care for Black Women” and founded the Detroit chapter of The Free Black Women’s Library. She is currently at work on a memoir that is about their experience as a transracial adoptee composing their own definition of Blackness where she weaves personal and political narratives through braided essays that combine prose, verse and Black Feminist reproductive rights issues. When not writing she can be found adventuring with her daughter, laughing with friends and dreaming up a prairie garden.