October 12th & November 9th, 2024

October's featured reader is Kisha Nicole Foster. Kisha Nicole Foster lives in Cleveland and is the recipient of the 2019 Cleveland Arts Prize for Emerging Artist in Literature. Foster holds her Masters of Fine arts in Poetry from The University of Nebraska-Omaha, and is an alumnus Cleveland State University-B.A English. Kisha has conducted over 400 national poetry workshops and has represented Cleveland several times nationally. competing at National Poetry Slam 2003, Individual World Poetry Slam 2008, and Women of the World 2009. The Poets and Writers League of Greater

Cleveland awarded Kisha one of the Top 25 Writers of Greater Cleveland in 2006. She is the author of 2 books: Poems: 1999-2014 / Bloodwork and is mother to her 5 year old daughter, named Love. Her work has appeared in Black in the Middle - An Anthology of the Black Midwest. Her spoken word album BLK Earth: SPK Poems can be listened to on Bandcamp.