Tag: literary reading

Reading and Q & A for Unsolicited Press’s Literary Nights Series with Raki Kopernik and Rosalia Scalia

Brook Bhagat

I was honored to read and talk with two fantastic authors last night on Literary Nights, a reading series from Unsolicited Press hosted by Rosalia Scalia, author of Under the Radar. Raki Kopernik read from No One’s Leaving, her piercingly tender and true new novel just released yesterday. I read “Once Upon a Time I Died” from Only Flying as well as previously unreleased work from both of my collections forthcoming from Unsolicited Press: Exodus with Red Delicious, due in 2026, and I Drink From an Ear: Real Ghazals, to be released in 2027. What an awesome night! Thank you, Rosalia, Raki, and Unsolicited Press!

Slamming Poetry and Facilitating a Surrealism Workshop at the Pikes Peak Poetry Summit

Brook Bhagat

The 3rd annual PPLD Pikes Peak Poetry Summit created by our fabulous Poet Laureate Ashley Cornelius was awesome! I was honored to be invited to facilitate a Surrealism workshop, where we discussed the movement in literature and art and had a blast playing classic Surrealist games like the Exquisite Corpse. I had so many participants that people had to sit on the floor! Later, I participated in my first poetry slam and connected with so many beautiful people, including the amazing poet Nico Wilkinson. We had over 100 attendees– What an incredible day!

with Poet Laureate Ashley Cornelius
slamming!
with poet Nico Wilkinson