FIRST THURSDAY OPEN MIC. FOR MUSIC AND POETRY RE-OPENS

STEVEN HUFF AND MINA HATAMI ARE SPECIAL GUEST READERS AT SEA OF COFFEE OPEN MIC.

Thursday, August 6, 2020, 7 pm, sign for open mic at 6:30

Maxion Stage at Coach Street Park, 160 S. Main Street Canandaigua, NY 14424

Refreshments may be ordered from Dalai Java Coffeeshop across Main Street.

Steven Huff is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently A Fire in the Hill (Blue Horse, 2017); two collections of short fiction, most recently Blissful and Other Stories (Cosmographia, 2017); and he is editor of Knowing Knott: Essays on an American Poet (Tiger Bark Press, 2017). His blog, In Our Home Ground (inourhomeground.wordpress.com), is a chronicle of journeys to grave sites of authors in Upstate New York. He lives in Rochester and teaches in the Solstice Low-residency MFA Program at Pine Manor College in Boston.

Mina Hatami is an Iranian-American poet. A summer vacation brought her to America forty years ago, and she stayed. She is educated in Philosophy and Public Administration. She says she doesn’t write poetry but “my poems write me or about me.” Her writing gets a rhythm and a flow when she feels comfortable in her skin. She works teaching financial literacy for a nonprofit organization and also enjoys painting, dancing, journaling and being outdoors.

The event from 7pm until 9 is free and open to the public, to perform music or literature or to listen.