Pauline Michelle is a queer, Chinese Panamanian American poet and teaching artist who grew up between suburban Illinois and Panama City, Panama. Her work, written in both English and Spanish, explores grief, imagines utopia, and swirls in the alchemy of her many (confusing and joyful) identities. She has performed at various venues including Chicago's The Newness and Paper Works and had her work featured in Cabaret Journal, Helicon, and Slant. As a teaching artist, Pauline has facilitated spaces with a variety of ages across the United States, Mexico, and Scandinavia. Pauline was a 2020 fellow at The Heart of It writing retreat. She proudly writes with her brilliant best friend's poetry collective, Luminaries Poetry Workshop. www.paulinemoll.com

Zachary Zalman Green lives in the Monadnock Region, or Peterborough NH, if you will. He works as a freelancer in the film and television industry in the capacity of producer and as a lighting technician.Green's writing has appeared in Tammy, Court Green, Interrupture, Whiskey Island, Ilk, Columbia Poetry Review, Jellyfish Magazine, and the former Minneapolis-based alt-weekly, City Pages. Green is also a co-founding editor of Ghost Proposal magazine. His films have appeared at the New Hampshire Film Festival, Minneapolis / St. Paul International Film Festival, and the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival. https://quotidianpress.storenvy.com/products/19240492-the-number-you-are-trying-to-reach

This week, the poets are donating their percentage to the Rural Youth Union's Free Store, held on Wednesdays in Keene, to serve those in need with free necessities.