Speak, Light (II.): Readings by Kevin Carson, Ashley D. Escobar, Subin Lee, Disha Trivedi, and Michy Woodward

Speak, Light is a free summer reading series held at Accent Sisters. For our second chapter, we are featuring Kevin Carson, Ashley D. Escobar, Subin Lee, Disha Trivedi, and Michy Woodward. Kevin Carson is a poet, visual artist, and immigrant rights activist based in Brooklyn, New York. As a Caribbean writer of native heritage, his work explores identity, history, and the struggles of being undocumented. Kevin was awarded the Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival Fellowship and was a finalist for the Brooklyn Poets Spring Fellowship. His work is forthcoming in the 2025 International Human Rights Art Movement anthology. He seeks to amplify the diverse voices of his community using poetry as a tool for activism. Ashley D. Escobar is a literary angel from San Francisco, residing in New York City. Eileen Myles selected her debut poetry collection GLIB (2025) as the Changes Book Prize winner. She is a high school dropout who graduated from Bennington College and holds a fiction MFA from Columbia University. Subin Lee is a multidisciplinary artist and writer born in Daejeon, South Korea. In addition to poetry, their work includes production design, costume design, photography, and illustration. They are a poetry MFA candidate in the creative writing program at New York University. Disha Trivedi is from Northern California. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Passages North, The Shore, Rust & Moth, The Women’s Issue anthology from The Harvard Advocate, and elsewhere. She is an editor and co-founder at M E N A C E, a magazine for the literary weird. She lives in New York, where she attends medical school. Michy Woodward (she/her) is a queer, mixed-race writer and artist. She is from Miami and currently lives and writes in Brooklyn. She loves exploring intimacy, sensation, and the relationship between interiority/ exteriority through her writing. Her work largely indulges in the softness of everyday life. Her poetry has been published in Bullshit Lit, Queerlings, Lavender Review, Roi Faineant Press, Silly Goose and The Amazine. Michy’s debut chapbook That’s the very nature of Saturn is now available through Bottlecap Press. She loves Sundays, her cat Kimi, and being near bodies of water.