Time: Reading begins at 7:30PM.
Cost: Free admission, all ages.
Location: Décima Musa, 1901 S. Loomis, Chicago

Emma Trelles is the author of Little Spells, a chapbook of poems published by GOSS 183 press. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry and an arts and culture journalist. Her poems and essays have appeared in publications such as New Millennium Writings, Gulf Stream, OCHO, Newsday, the Miami Herald and Latina magazine. She is the editor of MiPOesias Magazine's American Cuban Issue, and a series editor for the Tigertail poetry annuals. In 2008, she was a finalist for the Green Eyeshade Award in arts writing and a featured author at the Miami Book Fair International. She teaches creative writing workshops at the Art Center of South Florida.

La primera coleccion integral de la obra de Emma Trelles aparecera proximamente en MiPro Press. Su trabajo ha sido nominado para el premio Pushcart. Sus poemas y ensayos han aparecido en varios lugares, incluyendo New Millenium Writings, OCHO, Gulf Stream, Newsday, el Miami Herald y Latina. Ella ha sido el editor invitado de MiPoesias -especificamente la edicion especial dedicada a la poesia cubano-americana. Emma ha enseñado escritura creativa en el Florida Center for the Literary Arts y en Florida International University. Se gana la vida como critica de arte y como escritora para el Sun-Sentinel.

Jacob Saenz is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago where he served as an editor for the Columbia Poetry Review. His work has appeared in RHINO, Inkstains, Buffalo Carp, the Paramanu Pentaquark and Poetry. He has been nominated for an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award. Saenz works at a library.

A limited open mic begins the evening.