Second Sunday Readings

Sonia Greenfield  (she/they) is the author of two recent collections of poetry,  All Possible Histories  (Riot in Your Throat, December 2022) and  Helen of Troy is High AF  (Harbor Editions, January 2023). She is the author of  Letdown  (White Pine Press, 2020),  American Parable  (Autumn House, 2018) and  Boy with a Halo at the Farmer's Market  (Codhill Press, 2015). Her work has appeared in...

Linda Michel-Cassidy writes criticism and reviews for venues such as The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Heavy Feather Review, and Tupelo Quarterly, where she is senior reviews editor. For many years, she was a contributing editor at Entropy Magazine. Her writing appears in Rattle, Catamaran, Tahoma Review, No Tokens, Sky Island, and others. She is a metalsmith, installation artist, and teacher. Her...

Elizabeth Horner Turner's work has been published in journals including Cutbank, Fairy Tale Review, Gulf Coast, Lost Balloon, and trampset. Her work has been selected for inclusion in Best Small Fictions and Wigleaf's Top 50 and Long List. Her chapbook, The Tales of Flaxie Char, was published through dancing girl press, and her current manuscript has been a finalist in several chapbook com...

Barb Reynolds  is a Pushcart-nominated poet and author of two poetry chapbooks: Boxing Without Gloves and Drawing Words, both on Finishing Line Press; and the irreverent pandemic trilogy Isolation Journal, Volumes 1-3, on Bookbaby.com. Barb spent 22 years as an emergency response child abuse investigator, and she founded the Second Sunday Poetry Series in 2017. For the first three years of the ser...

ep. 06 523 PRIDE & JOY Special! ft/Nicole Tallman, griffin epstein, Ben Kline, Andrea Deeken, Lannie Stabile, & Dior Stephens Nicole Tallman is a poet, ghostwriter, and editor. Born and raised in Michigan, she lives in Miami, serves as the Poetry Ambassador for Miami-Dade County, Special Projects Editor for Redacted Books, Poetry and Reviews Editor for The Blue Mountain Review, and a reade...

Susan Cohen is the author of two chapbooks and the full-length collections Throat Singing (2012), A Different Wakeful Animal (2016), and Democracy of Fire (2022). A former science writer, journalism professor, and contributing writer to the Washington Post Magazine, she earned an MFA at Pacific University. Her poetry has appeared in 32 Poems, Catamaran, Los Angeles Review, Prairie Schooner, Southe...

Elizabeth M. Castillo is a British-Mauritian poet, writer, and a two-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Elizabeth explores the different countries and cultures she grew up with, as well as themes of race & ethnicity, motherhood, womanhood, language, love, loss and grief, and a touch of magical realism. Her writing has been featured in publications and anthologies in the UK, US, A...

Rebecca Evans is a memoirist, poet, and essayist with two MFAs: one in creative nonfiction and the other in poetry from Sierra Nevada University. She teaches creative nonfiction at Boise State University. In addition to writing, she mentors high school girls in the juvenile system and teaches poetry for those in recovery. She also co-hosts the radio program, Writer to Writer.  Rebecca is a disable...

Allison Thung is a poet and project manager from Singapore. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Chestnut Review, ANMLY, Heavy Feather Review, Maudlin House, Lumiere Review , and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter  @poetrybyallison  or at  www.allisonthung.com . Shei Sanchez is writer, photographer, and teacher from Jersey City, New Jersey. A Best of the Net nominee, Shei’...

Zoë Fay-Stindt (she/Z/they) is a queer, bicontinental poet with roots in both the French and American south. Their work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, featured or forthcoming in places such as Southern Humanities, Ninth Letter, and Poet Lore , and gathered into a chapbook, Bird Body , winner of Cordella Press’ inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize. She lives in Ames, Iowa, where she...

Start the week off with poetry!  Join me for the first 2nd Sunday Reading of the year as I host Shiksha Dheda, Julia Guez, and Matthew E. Henry. It's going to be wonderful. Shiksha Dheda  is a South African of Indian descent. She uses writing to express her OCD and depression roller-coaster ventures, but mostly to avoid working on her master’s degree. Sometimes, she dabbles in photo...

It's the last 2nd Sunday reading of the year!! Join in on Sunday, December 11 at 3pm Pacific as griffin epstein, Andrea Deeken, and Nicole Tallman read their work. Please share this invitation with your friends and on social media. The more the merrier! Warmly, Siân Killingsworth, Curator/Host secondsundayreadings.com griffin epstein is a non-binary white settler/occupier from NYC (Lenape land) wo...

Elizabeth M. Castillo is a British-Mauritian poet, writer, and a two-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Elizabeth explores the different countries and cultures she grew up with, as well as themes of race & ethnicity, motherhood, womanhood, language, love, loss and grief, and a touch of magical realism. Her writing has been featured in publications and anthologies in the UK, US, A...

Yeva Johnson , a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and musician whose work appears in  Bellingham Review, Essential Truths:  The Bay Area in Color Anthology, Sinister Wisdom, Yemassee,  and elsewhere, explores interlocking caste systems and possibilities for human co-existence in our biosphere.  Yeva is a past Show Us Your Spines Artist-in-Residence (RADAR Productions/SF Public Lib...

Shannon Wolf: She is a British writer and teacher living in Denver, Colorado. She received a joint MA-MFA in Poetry at McNeese State University and also has degrees from Lancaster University and the University of Chichester. She is the Co-Curator of the Poets in Pajamas Reading Series. Her poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction (which can also be found under the name Shannon Bushby) have appeared...

2nd Sunday Readings is inviting you to a very special reading from when there are nine when there are nine  is a chapbook of poems in tribute to the life and work of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Award-winning poet Patricia Smith penned the forward and contributors of  when there are nine  include Faylita Hicks, Brian Turner, Chelsea Dingman, and 2nd Sunday curator Siân Killingsworth, among...

Stephen Thomas Roberts is a poet living in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York, with occasional side trips into Manhattan where he practices law. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including The Tishman Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Blue Unicorn, Third Wednesday, The Cape Rock, The Driftwood Press, The Worcester Review, The Ocean State Review, and Cagibi, among others. He has be...

Ashley Kunsa is a poet and writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her prose has been published in the Los Angeles Review, Forge Literary Magazine, Sycamore Review, and The Writer Magazine, and her poetry is forthcoming from Massachusetts Review, Bennington Review, Radar Poetry, and Cream City Review, among other journals. Currently she is assistant professor of cr...

Erin Redfern’s work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Rattle, The Hopkins Review, New Ohio Review, New World Writing, and The Massachusetts Review. She earned her PhD at Northwestern University, where she was a Fellow at the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence. Her chapbook is Spellbreaking and Other Life Skills (Blue Lyra Press). She has served as poetry judge for the San Francisco Uni...

George Lober is the author of two books of poetry Shift of Light and A Bridge to There. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and e-zines, including the Monterey Poetry Review, Homestead Review, Eclectic Literary Forum (ELF); Quarry West; The Sandhill Review; Porter Gulch Review, Red Wheelbarrow, The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poetry and The Listening Eye. He is a former winner of the Ruth C...

Diane Lee Moomey has lived and wandered around the US and Canada and now lives in Half Moon Bay, California, where she co-hosts a monthly series, “Coastside Poetry.” She has also taught Poetry Appreciation to older adults through Foothill College’s Disability Resource Program. A regular reader at San Francisco Bay Area poetry venues, Diane has published work in The MacGuffin, Light, THIN...

Dion O'Reilly’s debut book, Ghost Dogs, (Terrapin 2020) was shortlisted for several prizes including The Catamaran Prize and The Eric Hoffer Award. Her work appears in such journals as The Sun, Rattle, Cincinnati Review, Narrative, New Letters, American Journal of Poetry, and The New Ohio Review. With The Hive Poetry Collective, she produces podcasts, radio shows, and events. She also leads p...

Susan Clare Bonetto was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, put herself through college and graduate school, and became a highly respected human resources professional who worked for the United Nations as well as companies like Schwab and Williams Sonoma. She, in the words of Thoreau, “lived the life she had imagined,” creating homes for herself and her loved ones in Argentina, Fiji, and San Franci...

In 1979, Barbara Berman organized one of the first Independent Press Festivals in the country in Washington, DC. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The VillageVoice, The Washington Post, Gargoyle, Lilith, Narrative Northeast and other publications. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, THE GENEROSITY OF STARS, from Finishing Line Press, and CURRENTS, a full-length collection of poetry from Th...

Kate Peper loves to paint watercolors, garden, and walk with her husband and semi-feral dog, Hannah, in Northern California. She’s a five-time Pushcart nominee and her poems can be found in The American Journal of Poetry, Baltimore Review, Cimarron Review, Potomac Review, Rattle, Tar River Review, and others. Her chapbook, Dipped In Black Water, won the New Women's Voices Award from Finishing Line...