Join us on Tuesday August 20 at 7:30 PM at Mercury Cafe for the August F-bomb, hosted by Krystal Summers and featuring Leah Rogin and Erica Hoffmeister. We’re also celebrating book releases for both of our features, so please come out to support these local authors!

This month’s theme is hybridity. Folks can bring their favorite genre-blending/defying pieces, etc., to share as part of our 4-minute open mic spots (sign-up starts around 7:00). You are also welcome to read original work that is not “on theme.”

We hope to see you there!

HOST KRYSTAL SUMMERS is a writer and nanny more magical than Mary Poppins. When she isn’t taking children through chalk paintings, she’s outside somewhere with her dog, relaxing at her home in Denver with her husband, or starting more stories than she finishes. She will be published in the forthcoming Listen to Your Skin anthology from Q Publishing in 2023.

FEATURED PERFORMER LEAH ROGIN enjoys researching fetal chimeras and other ways that people live inside of us. She still writes flash fiction, but lately has been on that novel grindset. Her first published novel, Burying Norma Jeane (Blackwater Press) was released on August 4 and is a mother-daughter road trip novel to liberate Marilyn Monroe’s body from Hugh Hefner’s lecherous grasp in the crypt beside her and also… a biography of Marilyn Monroe written through film reviews? It makes sense when you read it. You can check out her website at Author and educational consultant Leah Rogin

FEATURED PERFORMER ERICA HOFFMEISTER was born and raised in the fragrant orange groves of Southern California and now lives in Denver, where she teaches creative writing and rhetoric. She is the author of three hybrid/poetry collections: the prize-winning Roots Grew Wild (Kingdoms in the Wild Press, 2019); Lived in Bars (Stubborn Mule Press, 2019); and All the Parts You Haven’t Lost (ELJ Editions, 2024). A multi-genre writer, she has earned accolades across genres, including runner’s up for the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, nomination for a Pushcart Prize in creative nonfiction, as well as multiple Best of the Net nominations for poetry. She’s obsessed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, cross-country road trips, and her two wildling daughters.Learn more at: http://www.ericahoffmeister.com/.