In 2016-17, SPCUNY alumni Alexandra Juhasz engaged in a daily practice for the first 100 days of a presidency, blogging about fake news and matters of civic decency, and as often as not sharing the page with friends and colleagues. That became a website with 100 Hard Truths about Fake News:  For many years after, Alex ran workshops with poets around the world together thinking about those hard truths and the words of other participants: fakenews-poetry.org. Those poems became a book, My Phone Lies to Me, published by @punctum_books (available to download for free).

15-20 participants in that project (writers, poets, teachers, friends), will read old poems from that book. You are invited to come hear poems and there will be time for discussion or the reading of more poems after the one-hour reading.

It is good to be together with poetry at this time. The reading will also be recorded as part of punctum’s, Encounters at the End of the Book series.