2025 Convos in Cohort

First Matter Press' annual reading and discussion series, Convos in Cohort returns featuring our 2025 authors.

nawa angel a.h., Annemarie Eayrs, Violeta Garza and Claudia Saleeby Savage will read from their forthcoming collections followed by thematic/craft discussions.

Join us live on Zoom!

July 20 @ 4:30pm pacific / 6:30pm central
Rituals of Process: Myth-Making Through Writing

August 17 @ 4:30pm pacific / 6:30pm central
What’s Erased? Dualities & Multiplicities

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This project was made possible by
​Regional Arts and Culture Council, Multnomah County Cultural Coalition and Oregon Cultural Trust.

The Dying Room
​Annemarie Eayrs

​Recipient of the Prima Materia First Chapbook Award ​for Poetry 

A lyrical, clear-eyed exploration of adoption, identity, and inheritance—told through poems and prose vignettes.

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Brava 
​Violeta Garza

Bilingual poems that lean into discomfort and delight, moving between humor and grief, Spanish and English, page and performance.​

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waling waling palpitations 
​nawa angel a.h.

A subversive hybrid work--Mother archetype as an Orchid archetype takes on a polyphonic, spectral experience, as a way to break open the monolithic expectations we have of Mothers.

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first you must destroy the world
​Claudia Saleeby Savage

Written for her daughter, this is an Arab American mother’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis—intimate, aching, and formally daring.

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