Speak, Light (I.): A Reading Featuring DeeSoul Carson, Dylan Gilbert, Laetitia Keok, and Tianyi

​Speak, Light is a free summer reading series held at Accent Sisters. For our very first chapter, we are featuring DeeSoul Carson, Dylan Gilbert, Laetitia Keok, and Tianyi.

​DeeSoul Carson is a poet and educator from San Diego, CA, currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. His work is featured in Muzzle Magazine, AGNI, The Offing, & elsewhere. A Stanford University alum, DeeSoul has received fellowships from the NYU MFA program, the Watering Hole, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His debut full-length, The Laughing Barrel, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in Spring 2027. Find more of his work at deesoulpoetry.com.

​Dylan Gilbert (she/her) is a Brooklyn based poet, curator, and educator from Michigan. She holds her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. Her work often deals with mourning, girlhood, queerness, Blackness, and lineage. Dylan's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Maine Review, Black Warrior Review, Plumwood Mountain Journal, Salt Hill Journal, and elsewhere.

​Laetitia Keok is a writer and editor based between New York City and Singapore. Her work has been placed for the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry and the Oxford Poetry Prize, supported by the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the National Arts Council of Singapore, and published in Poetry Northwest, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. Laetitia holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University, and edits for Gaudy Boy and Sine Theta Magazine.

​Tianyi is a poet based in New York, from Hong Kong. His creative and critical work can be found in Poetry Daily, New England Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Margins, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the New England Review's Award for Emerging Writers. In the fall, he will begin his MFA in Poetry at Columbia University where he will be a Max Ritvo Poetry Fellow.