Beyond Words: Beauty & Resistance

From poet & producer Jon Hess comes another installment of this vital series. Guest curator Brendan Constantine presents an afternoon of poetry with Matthew ' Cuban' Hernandez, Marie Marandola, & Jeremy Radin. Join us for Beauty & Resistance. Regular admission. Members FREE! Jeremy Radin is a poet, actor, and teacher. His poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in Gulf Coast, Cosmonauts Avenue, Nailed, Sundog Lit, Union Station, Winter Tangerine, Wyvern, and elsewhere. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Slow Dance with Sasquatch (Write Bloody Publishing, 2012) and Dear Sal (not a cult press, 2017). He teaches acting at The Beverly Hills Playhouse in Los Angeles. You may have seen him on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia or joyweeping into a pastrami sandwich at Wexler’s Deli. Follow him @germyradin Matthew ‘Cuban’ Hernandez is a poet, speaker, & coach from Jacksonville, Florida. Matthew traveled around the world from Duval to Abu Dhabi, performing & teaching poetry as well as coaching slam teams to final stages, before moving to Los Angeles in 2013. Matthew is currently the Get Lit Brave New Voices co-coach, as well as the Arts Program Educator for New Earth, working in youth detention centers across Los Angeles County. He has opened for artists such as Wu-Tang Clan & has performed for platforms such as Buzzfeed, Def Poetry, and more. Cuban’s favorite activity is making people feel great; sometimes he does this through poetry. Marie Marandola is a badass feminist poet who received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She now lives in San Diego, where she remains in the habit of picking up fallen bits of trees and giving them to people.