BONK! Starts the New Year with Lennée Reid, Sandra Marchetti, and MG Bailey

Lennée Reid is a Creole author, multimedia artist, performance poet, activist, healer, and community organizer from Olympia, Washington. They have toured across America including many PSI Poetry Slams. She was Olympias 2018 Poetry Grand Slam Champion and the first WOWPS representative in 2015. She is published in: “Inanna’s Ascent”, “Single Mothers Speak On Patriarchy”, and her chapbooks “Universal State of Mind” and “Qi Woo Mojo Juju”, all available at thegirlgod.com, in addition to Works In Progress, Confluence Daily, and Spectrum Women, among others. 

Sandra Marchetti is the author of Confluence, a full-length collection of poetry from Sundress Publications (2015). She is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays. Her poetry appears widely in Poet Lore, Blackbird, Ecotone, Southwest Review, Subtropics, and elsewhere. Sandy’s essays can be found at The Rumpus, Fansided, Mid-American Review, Barrelhouse, Pleiades, and other venues. Sandy earned an MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry from George Mason University and now serves as the Coordinator of Tutoring Services at the College of DuPage in the Chicagoland area. She currently serves as the Poetry Editor at River Styx Magazine.