LAST SUNDAY POETRY READING & OPEN MIC

featuring

PDVNCH and Bernardo Wade

The February 2023 edition of Last Sunday Poetry & Open Mic, sponsored by the Writers Guild @ Bloomington, celebrates Black History Month by showcasing the dynamic talents of PDVNCH and Bernardo Wade.

PDVNCH is a dramatic prophetic poetic storyteller, who uses rainbows to paint pictures, while creating vivid images with words from multiple perspectives, and giving voice to the unheard with vocal tones that are rhythmic. He is an inventor/originator, most known globally for his original iconic hair designs, “Beads by DVNCH,” fabulous frames, and his phenomenal passion for fashion. A Bloomingtonian, and Director of Creative-Arts Productions for INspire-INspiration INitiative @ I3 studios, he desires to inspire through collaboration, and “Always be on Purpose”!

https://www.instagram.com/pdvnch/

BERNARDO WADE is a writer and artist from New Orleans. He holds BAs in English and Philosophy from the University of New Orleans. He is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at Indiana University Bloomington; Associate Editor of Indiana Review; and a Watering Hole Fellow, while moonlighting as an equity and justice advocate. Winner of the 2021 Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize, he has words in, or forthcoming in, Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, New Orleans Review, Southern Humanities Review, Salt Hill Journal, Yemassee, The Minnesota Review, and other literary journals.

https://www.bernardowade.com/

Emerging poets, who need a supportive audience, and established poets, who want to promote published works: Show up early to sign up for open mic! Your words are precious.