Karin Wraley Barbee reads her story “Twenty-First-Century Fairy Tale.”
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“Last Will and Testament” by Bijan Najdi read by Parisa Saranj
Parisa Saranj reads her translation of “Last Will and Testament” by Bijan Najdi.
“If” read by Evelyn Martinez
Evelyn Martinez reads her poem “If.”
Larry D. Thacker reads “Target Practice”
Larry D. Thacker reads his poem “Target Practice.”
Larry D. Thacker reads “Inclusion”
Larry D. Thacker reads his poem “Inclusion.”
Thomas March reads “Great Aunt Mary Agnes’ Eye”
Thomas March reads his poem “Great Aunt Mary Agnes’ Eye” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #18.
Thomas March reads “Unburial”
Thomas March reads his poem “Unburial” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #18.
Amitai Ben-Abba reads “Pre-Psychotic State”
Amitai Ben-Abba reads “Pre-Psychotic State” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #18.
July Westhale reads “Teresa of Avila Patron Saint of Via Negativa”
July Westhale reads “Teresa of Avila Patron Saint of Via Negativa” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #18.
July Westhale reads “On Friendship”
July Westhale reads “On Friendship” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #18.
Laurie Stone reads “Sunglasses”
Laurie Stone is author most recently of My Life as an Animal, Stories. She was a longtime writer for the Village Voice, theater critic for The Nation, and critic-at-large on Fresh Air. She won the Nona Balakian prize in excellence in criticism from the National Book...
Geraldine Connolly reads “Cinder”
Geraldine Connolly reads "Spider" appearing in Your Impossible Voice #17. Geraldine Connolly is the author of three poetry collections, Food for the Winter, Province of Fire, and Hand of the Wind. Her new book, Aileron, will be published by Terrapin Books in 2018. Her...
Geraldine Connolly reads “Spider”
Geraldine Connolly reads "Spider" appearing in Your Impossible Voice #17. Geraldine Connolly is the author of three poetry collections, Food for the Winter, Province of Fire, and Hand of the Wind. Her new book, Aileron, will be published by Terrapin Books in 2018. Her...
Jessica Kirzane reads “Mutual Consent”
Jessica Kirzane reads her translation of "Mutual Consent," an excerpt from Diary of a Lonely Girl by Miriam Karpilov. Miriam Karpilov (1888-1956) was born in Minsk and immigrated to America in 1905, settling in New York City and in Bridgeport, CT, where several of her...
Jari Niesner reads “slim shadows”
Ulrike Almut Sandig was born in Großenhain (GDR) in 1979 and now lives with her family in Berlin. She started publishing her poetry by pasting poems onto lamp posts in Leipzig and spreading them on flyers and free post cards. After completing her Magister in Religious...
Zach Wyner reads “When I Was a Child in the 1980s”
Zach Wyner is a writer and educator who works with incarcerated youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. His debut novel, What We Never Had, was published by Rare Bird Books in 2016. He is a contributor to The Good Men Project, Curly Red Stories, Unbroken Journal,...
Dallas Woodburn reads and discusses “How to Make Spinach-Artichoke Lasagna Three Weeks After Your Best Friend’s Funeral”
Dallas Woodburn, a former Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University, has published work in Zyzzyva, The Nashville Review, The Los Angeles Times, and Monkeybicycle, among many others. Her debut short story collection Woman, Running Late, in a...
Luisa A. Igloria reads “Zunzuncito”
Luisa A. Igloria is the winner of the 2015 Resurgence Prize (UK), the world’s first major award for ecopoetry, selected by former UK poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion, Alice Oswald, and Jo Shapcott. She is the author of the chapbooks Haori (Tea & Tattered Pages...
Luisa A. Igloria reads “In the Garden of Earthly Delights,”
Luisa A. Igloria is the winner of the 2015 Resurgence Prize (UK), the world’s first major award for ecopoetry, selected by former UK poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion, Alice Oswald, and Jo Shapcott. She is the author of the chapbooks Haori (Tea & Tattered Pages...
Emily Zasada reads “Life in a Bottle”
Emily Zasada has previously had work published in Flock (formerly Fiction Fix) and Penny. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and son.
Jacob Rogers reads “Orange Dream: Story of a Dream Embedded Within Five Different Strata”
Xavier Queipo is a Galician writer based in Brussels, Belgium. He has published nearly twenty books, ranging from fiction, to poetry, to children’s literature, as well as essays. He has won several prizes for his novels, including the Spanish Critics Prize in 1991,...
Leah Mueller reads “San Francisco Heart”
Leah Mueller is an indie writer from Tacoma, WA. She is the author of two chapbooks, Queen of Dorksville (Crisis Chronicles Press) and Political Apnea (Locofo Chaps), and two books, Allergic to Everything (Writing Knights Press) and The Underside of the Snake (Red...
Martin Willitts Jr. reads “Molecules”
Martin Willitts Jr. has over 20 chapbooks including the winner of the Turtle Island Quarterly Editor’s Choice Award, The Wire Fence Holding Back the World (Flowstone Press), plus 11 full-length collections including How to Be Silent (FutureCycle Press, 2016) and Dylan...
Martin Willitts Jr. reads “Separation and Pulling Together and Separating”
Martin Willitts Jr. has over 20 chapbooks including the winner of the Turtle Island Quarterly Editor’s Choice Award, The Wire Fence Holding Back the World (Flowstone Press), plus 11 full-length collections including How to Be Silent (FutureCycle Press, 2016) and Dylan...
Fabia Oliveira reads “Fool’s Gold”
Fabia Oliveira is a recent graduate of Lesley University’s low residency MFA program. She lives with her two beautiful children in Somerville, Massachusetts. She is a Brazilian American writer who writes about navigating both of her inherited cultures. Her essays have...
Kirin Khan reads “A Boy’s Name for Storm”
Kirin Khan is a Pukhtuna writer from Albuquerque, NM, whose work explores immigration, violence, and belonging. She currently lives in Oakland, CA, and works as a Senior Analyst for YouGov. Kirin is a 2016 VONA Voices alum, a 2017 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices...
Geri Lipschultz reads “A Woman Writes the Unicorn Butterfly”
Geri Lipschultz has an MFA from Iowa and a PhD from Ohio University. She has work forthcoming in DISARM, by Black Heart Publishing and in great weather for MEDIA. She has published in the New York Times, College English, Kalliope, and Black Warrior Review among...
Sean Mahoney reads “While waiting for the hardscaper’s estimate”
Sean J. Mahoney lives with his wife, her mother, two Uglydolls, and three dogs in Santa Ana, CA. He works in geophysics. He believes in salsa, dark chocolate, and CBD. He believes that Judas was a way better singer than Jesus and that diatomaceous earth is a not well...
Padma Prasad reads “Ice”
Padma Prasad is a writer and painter who writes pictures and paints narratives. Her fiction has appeared in Eclectica, The Looseleaf Tea, Reading Hour, ETA, The Boiler Journal, Bindweed Magazine, Pilcrow & Dagger, and Fine Flu Journal. She blogs her poem drawings...
Nina Schuyler reads an excerpt from “Pixie”
Nina Schuyler is the author of the award-winning novel, The Translator. Her first novel, The Painting, was nominated for the Northern California Book Award and was named a “Year’s Finest Best Book” by the San Francisco Chronicle. She teaches creative writing at the...