Word Thursdays featuring Regina Garcia and Malaika Albrecht

Word Thursdays Online featuring Regina Garcia & Malaika Albrecht will broadcast live in THREE DAYS on Thursday, September 26 at 7 PM EST.

To attend the event, please click this link just before 7 PM EST: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577446746 or visit Bright Hill’s Facebook page at 7 PM EST to view the live stream. RSVP to the event on Facebook here.

Suggested donation is $3, and free to students.

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Malaika King Albrecht served as the inaugural Heart of Pamlico Poet Laureate and is the author of four poetry books, including most recently The Stumble Fields, which was a finalist in the 2021 Eric Hoffer Award (Main Street Rag 2020). She’s the founding editor of Redheaded Stepchild, an online magazine that only accepts poems that have been rejected elsewhere. She’s also a metal artist living in North Carolina on Freckles Farm, where she works as a yoga instructor, Reiki practitioner, and equine specialist incorporating horses into healing.

Regina YC Garcia, a Language Artist and English Professor from Greenville, NC, is a DAR American Heritage Poetry Award winner, a two- time James Applewhite Semifinalist, a finalist in Charlotte Lit’s Lit/South Award, and a Pushcart Nominee. She has been published in Up the Staircase Quarterly, South Florida Poetry Journal, Amistad, The Elevation Review, Black Joy Unbond, and numerous other reviews and anthologies. Additionally, she has contributed poetic and vocal content to the Sacred 9 Project (Tulane University) as well as an Emmy-Award winning episode of the PBS art show Muse featuring “The Black Light Project.” Her debut chapbook, The Firetalker’s Daughter, was released in March 2023 by Finishing Line Press.