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Let your voice be heard! We invite featured poets to read some of their work while other creatives are welcome to join our spoken word open mic. Sign up is at 6:45pm. This ongoing series is curated by Laura Salvatore. This evening's lineup includes Jee Leong Koh and Laetitia Keok. Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet), named a Best Book of the Year by UK's Financial Times and a Finalist by Lambda Literary in the USA. His hybrid work of fiction, Snow at 5 PM: Translations of an insignificant Japanese poet, won the Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction. His second Carcanet book is Inspector Inspector. Laetitia Keok is a writer and editor based between New York City and Singapore. Her work has been placed for the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry and the Oxford Poetry Prize, supported by the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the National Arts Council of Singapore, and published in Poetry Northwest, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. Laetitia holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University, and edits for Gaudy Boy and Sine Theta Magazine.