Join us on Tuesday April 16 at Mercury Cafe for the April F-bomb at 7:30 PM. Our host will be long-time F-bomber Leah Rogin and will feature Leah Scott and Suzi Q. Smith. Plus, 4-minute open mic slots will be available for those who want to share their own original work. Please join us if you can!

As a special note, we will not be in our typical space at Mercury Cafe this month; instead, we’ll be in the Rose Room, the main restaurant/bar space.

HOST LEAH ROGIN’s first published novel, Burying Norma Jeane, is coming out on Marilyn Monroe’s 98th birthday, June 1, 2024, with Blackwater Press. She is interested in what a world where Norma Jeane lived to be 98 would look like, among other time / space preoccupations. She lives in the mountains west of Denver where she wrangles children and other creatures.

FEATURED READER LEAH SCOTT is a writer, editor, and translator from Denver. She spent several years as senior poetry editor of F(r)iction and currently works on research that explores reproductive health activism through the experiences of feminists in Latin America. You can read some of her poems in Pacifica Literary Review.

FEATURED READER SUZI Q. SMITH is an award-winning poet, author, interdisciplinary artist, music maker, and dreamer of dreams who lives in Denver, Colorado. The author of poetry collections Poems for the End of the World, A Gospel of Bones (winner of the 2019 Electric Press Award), and the chapbook collection, Thirteen Descansos, Smith is the Lead Editor for Creative Nonfiction for Revolute! Literary Magazine. Smith is also the co-editor of two anthologies, Tell It Slant: An Anthology of Creative Nonfiction by Writers from Colorado’s Prisons and All the Lives We Ever Lived, Volume I, both Finalists for the Colorado Book Award.