Lyric (III.): Live Music by Juno Roome and Readings by Cynthia Chen, Dante Clark, r. kay, and Stephanie Niu
6 – 7:30PM
Lyric is a cross-craft series hosted at Accent Sisters, where musicians and writers come together for an evening of live music and readings. For our last event in August, we are featuring the musician Juno Roome and the writers Cynthia Chen, Dante Clark, r. kay, and Stephanie Niu.
New York-based singer, songwriter and producer juno roome pairs their indie sound with a delicate falsetto, shimmering synths and tender guitars. Complementing the tracks with camcorder-style clips of life in the city, roome’s lo-fi aesthetic is as cinematic as it is subtle.
Cynthia Chen is a writer based in New York City, originally from Shanghai. She holds an MFA from New York University. Her writings can be found or forthcoming in SPECTRA, No,dear, Grotto Journal, The Margins, Epiphany, and elsewhere. Her work has also been supported by the Community of Writers, Beijing Poetry Festival, and Push the Boat Poetry Festival.
Dante Clark is a writer and performer from the Bronx, NY. With poetry being their primary literary outlet, Dante intends to explore the scope and sound of words as a means to inform, delight, and incite, while writing toward liberation. A two-time Pushcart nominee, his work has been featured in The Root, Afropunk, wildness, Adroit Journal, and more. He’s received support from organizations including Catapult, In Surreal Life, and NYU’s Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House—where he’s a recent Goldwater Fellow and MFA Graduate. While working on the finishing touches of his debut collection of poems in NYC, Dante remains steadfast in his dream to create in a world where all his homies can prosper.
r. (renée) kay is a trans poet currently in Western Massachusetts by way of Brooklyn, southern Appalachia and other beautiful, strange places. Their work can be found in Copper Nickel, HAD, Catapult, Glass, Yes Poetry, Bedfellows, the West Review and elsewhere and they’ve received support from Tin House and Catapult. They currently serve as executive director at Brooklyn Poets.
Stephanie Niu is a poet and writer from Marietta, Georgia. She is the author of I Would Define the Sun, which won the inaugural Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, and chapbooks Survived By (Host Publications, 2024) and She Has Dreamt Again of Water (Diode Editions, 2022). She lives in Brooklyn, NY.