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. His chapbook, Running From Streetlights (2020), is a meditation on Blackness in America during the “Summer of Racial Reckoning.” A Stanford University alum, DeeSoul has received fellowships from the NYU MFA program, the Watering Hole, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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 was raised in Hong Kong and is currently based in New York. His work can be found in The Interpreter’s House.