Paradiso 25: Maya Martinez, C.J. Martin, Cambria Storms

Maya Martinez is a poet and performer raised in Florida, she now resides in New York City. Martinez’s playful “valley girl” voice processes low brow experiences of everyday life transforming them into experimental, comedic, heartfelt pursuits of understanding. Theatrics collects plays, monologues, and other stage writings. Surrealist exploits ensue. Where you start is not where you will end. Maya’s writing and performances focus on sound, craft and rhythm and other qualities inherent to poetry, her innate form. Her work has been staged at MoMA PS1, Performance Space New York, Hauser and Wirth, and Poetry Project. @hidingfrommystalkerok

C.J. Martin teaches writing online and runs Further Other Book Works with the poet Julia Drescher, where he published his most recent books, “Car” Poems, Family-Style Meal, and novelppl/practicebk. Other books, chapbooks, and ephemera made by friends at NewLights Press, Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, Compline, Delete Press, and supersuperette. He lives in Garner, NC. @cjmrtn

Cambria Storms is a performing artist exploring human possibility through dance improvisation. She is the Organist-in-residence at St. Joseph's Episcopal Church in Durham, North Carolina, and she belongs to a small blue dog.

Doors at 6:30 pm, reading at 7 pm. BYO or sample what’s on hand.