2nd Thursday Poetry featuring Susan Michele Coronel and Śivani Howe

BookWoman 2nd Thursday is delighted to welcome Susan Michele Coronel and Śivani Howe Thursday, November 12, 2026 from 7:15 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. CST as our features for this Zoom-only showcase (registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2003102993977?aff=oddtdtcreator; Zoom log-in required). Julia Ross and Cindy Huyser host, and a "round-robin" open mic follows. Susan Michele Coronel is the author of In the Needle, A Woman (Finishing Line Press, 2025), winner of the 2024 Donna Wolf Palacio Poetry Prize. Her work has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and she received the Massachusetts Poetry Festival First Poem Award in 2023. Her poems have appeared in Cider Press Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Mom Egg Review, Mudfish, Nixes Mate, SWWIM, and elsewhere. Her poetry often explores memory, identity, family, and the complexities of women’s lives. In 2026, she organized, moderated, and participated in “Voices We Carry,” a panel with poets Jessica Purdy and Tatiana Johnson-Boria at the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival. She studies Yiddish language and literature and lives in Ridgewood, Queens. Śivani Howe is a poet and poetry professor at Versed Literary Community, and the author of the poetry collection, THIS is Written in the Stars (2024). Her poems have appeared in Hemlock Journal, Turning Leaf Journal, PhilLit, Anhorinda Press, and in both The International Human Rights Arts Movement’s 2025 Quarterly Literary Magazine Enduring Voices and its anthology Solidarity. Her work was short listed for the Ribbon&Ink LemonLight Prize and published in the associated anthology. Recently, she was the featured poet at Au Chat Noir in Paris. She will complete a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Pacific University in January 2027. When she is not writing, Śivani enjoys gardening and travelling.