September Sappho Poetry Night – Erin Vincent & Nicole W Lee w/ OPEN MIC

TICKETS AVAILABLE VIA HUMANITIX (UTS students must show valid uni ID on the door) Welcome back to the September edition of the Sappho Poetry Night! As well as our amazing open mic section, the event will also included readings from poets Erin Vincent and Nicole W Lee!Poetry nights are held on the first Wednesday of every month (except January) and have become renowned for their welcoming atmosphere and line-up of well-known poets. Supported by University of Technology Sydney Creative Writing, this event series is hosted by poets and UTS creative writing teachers, Dave Drayton, Sarah Attfield and Anne Casey. Poets at all stages – from absolute beginners to established – are invited (and warmly encouraged!) to sign up for the open mic roster at the venue from 6.30 pm on the night. There will be a limited number of two-minute reading slots available. The event kicks off at 7 pm. All welcome! Please book your ticket ahead, we cannot guarantee entry on the door! Erin VincentErin Vincent is the author of Fourteen Ways of Looking, which was published in Australia (Upswell), the UK (CB editions), the US (A Strange Object/Deep Vellum), and Canada (Strange Light/Penguin Random House), and was recently shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards. Her first book Grief Girl, published in Australia (Pan Macmillan) and the US (Penguin Random House), was named a New York Public Library Best Book. Erin’s work has also appeared in The Guardian, Meanjin, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Kill Your Darlings and elsewhere. She is currently studying for a PhD in creative writing with a focus on fragmentary literature. Nicole W LeeNicole W. Lee is a Sydney-based poet whose poems appear in Adroit Journal, AGNI, Gulf Coast, Meanjin, Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, and more, and has received support from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Tin House, AWP, the Ian Potter Foundation, and Create NSW. Her poems have won or placed as finalists in the Palette Poetry Previously Published Poem Prize, Tupelo Quarterly Open Poem Prize, and the Adroit Journal Djanikian Scholarship, and are being adapted for stage, screen, and an interdisciplinary installation with Western Sydney University and Opera