This reading event presents Youssef Alaoui-Fdili, the second Spring resident for new the 100 Thousand Poets for Change On Lake Jackson Residency Program-Tallahassee, FL

Readers include:

Youssef Alaoui-Fdili, poet and publisher of Paper Press, is a Moroccan-Latino, born in California. His family and heritage are an endless source of inspiration for his varied writings. He has an MFA in Poetics from New College of California. There, he studied Classical Arabic, Spanish Baroque and Contemporary Moroccan poetry. He is also well versed in the most dour and macabre literature of the 19th Century. His poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, 580 Split, Cherry Bleeds, Carcinogenic Poetry, Red Fez, Big Bridge, Dusie Press, and nominated for a Pushcart at Full of Crow. Youssef is an original creator of the East Bay literary arts festival “Beast Crawl.” His book of short stories, Fiercer Monsters, will be published by Nomadic Press in 2017.
http://youssefalaoui.tumblr.com/

SJ Sindu’s debut novel, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, is forthcoming in 2017 from Soho Press. She was a 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow and her hybrid fiction and nonfiction chapbook, I Once Met You But You Were Dead, was the winner of the 2016 Split Lip Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest. Sindu’s creative writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Brevity, The Normal School, The Los Angeles Review of Books, apt, Vinyl Poetry, PRISM International, Fifth Wednesday Journal, rkvry quarterly, and elsewhere. http://sjsindu.com/

Karen Tucker's recent fiction has appeared in EPOCH, Carve Magazine, American Literary Review, upstreet, and Salamander. Born and raised in North Carolina, she has been awarded an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant for Emerging Writers and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Currently she lives in Tallahassee, where she's working toward a PhD in Creative Writing at Florida State. https://www.karentucker.com/ Read one of her stories here: http://www.americanliteraryreview.com/karen-tucker.html

The 100 Thousand Poets for Change on Lake Jackson Residency Program, Tallahassee, Florida is a writer’s retreat, performance and teaching project. Poets and writers from around the world will be invited to stay on Lake Jackson for up to two weeks. They are welcome to bring writing projects to work on. They will have an opportunity to meet and read with poets from the Tallahassee literary community. Reading events will be scheduled by 100TPC at local venues during residency. Also, workshops and classroom visits at local schools will be arranged as part of a community outreach and cultural exchange. Participants in the Residency Program will contribute poetry and prose writings to the book project, "On Lake Jackson", to be published by 100TPC in collaboration with Big Bridge Press. This book project will explore the ecology, natural history and cultural history of the area and will collect impressions of Lake Jackson to share with writers and readers around the world.

LAKE JACKSON
Lake Jackson is a 4,000 acre shallow, prairie lake on the north side of Tallahassee in Leon County, Florida, (about 7 miles from downtown). This ecosystem was designated as the Lake Jackson Aquatic Preserve for the primary purpose of preserving and maintaining the biological resources in their essentially natural condition. Lake Jackson is also designated an "Outstanding Florida Water" by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The expansive freshwater marshes and native submerged vegetation provide exceptional fish, waterfowl and wading bird habitat. Lake Jackson has two major depressions or sinkholes known as Porter Sink and Lime Sink that occasionally drain the lake. Lake levels have fluctuated from periods of being completely dry to a maximum elevation of 96 feet (29 m) above sea level. The lake is approximately 7.5 miles (12 km) long and its area is 6.2 square miles (16 km2). http://friendsoflakejackson.org/