Featuring jasmine aequitas and Rich Villar

Hosted by Ricardo Thomas Manuel Hernández

Plus open mic

21+

$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non.

jasmine aequitas is a queer puerto rican mother from brooklyn. she is a pink door alumni, has featured her work in various venues, including great wewather for MEDIA’s Spoken Word Sundays and Pen America's Bklyn Lit Crawl, and was a TedX speaker. jasmine writes about themes surrounding identity, mental health, and the existential joke that is consciousness. she greatly believes that there is depression, anxiety, and trauma, but there is also pizza.

Rich Villar is a poet, essayist, and educator originally from Paterson, New Jersey. He is the author of the collection Comprehending Forever (Willow Books, 2014). His essays and poems are widely anthologized, most recently in What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (Northwestern University Press, 2019) and The BreakBeat Poets, Volume 4: LatiNEXT (forthcoming from Haymarket Books in 2020).