Resistance Reading with HanaLena Fennel, Luivette Resto and Danielle Mitchell

“When we look at the faces of these children, we can’t help but see our own children’s faces,” -Charlotte Wilner.

Join us for a night of poetry and fundraising, as we stand together in protest. We will be holding live auctions to help raise funds for RAICES, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit agency that promotes justice by providing free and low-cost legal services to underserved immigrant children, families, and refugees along the border.

Luivette Resto
Born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, poet Luivette Resto was raised in the Bronx. The first in her family to graduate from college, Resto earned a BA at Cornell University and an MFA at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she studied with Martín Espada.

Danielle Mitchell
Danielle Mitchell is the author of Makes the Daughter-in-Law Cry (Tebot Bach 2017), selected by Gail Wronsky for the 2015 Clockwise Chapbook Prize. She is the recipient of the 2015 Editor’s Prize from Mary and the 2014 Editor’s Choice Award from The Mas Tequila Review. Her work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Eleven Eleven, New Orleans Review, Harpur Palate, Nailed and others. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Redlands. Danielle is a member of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and the founding director of The Poetry Lab in Long Beach, California.

HanaLena Fennel
Hanalena was born on a goat farm to a Jewish hippie; After that, things got weird. She believes in the power of true geekery, loving scifi, fantasy, horror, comics and gaming without irony. Show me your geekery and I’ll show you mine.