POETRY CLUB 2024
Welcome to AYS Poetry Club 2024
We are so excited to invite you to our At Your Service Poetry Club, an enriching 4-week program led by Noor Tagouri.
AYS Poetry Club will be reading and engaging with poetry as a way of alchemizing our world and our stories right now, in this moment in time. Co-hosted by Noor and a different renowned poet each week, we are going to read, write, share, everything poetry.
*You do not need any previous experience with poetry, just curiosity and openness!*
Guest Poets:
Each Sunday for 2 hours AYS Poetry Club will enjoy intentional discussions and designated breakout groups with fellow members. We’ll individually track the questions we’re asking weekly, and come together to reflect on themes relating to the poetry we've read and written.
In addition to our 4-week program, members of AYS Poetry Club receive:
-Recordings of each week’s session
-Intimate bonds with your weekly pod and new friendships
-Access to the AYS Private Discord Group to continue the conversations and gatherings are often planned with our community.
The financial exchange for this AYS Poetry Club is $120
You will also have an option to sponsor a member who is unable to pay. Thank you for supporting the community!
**We understand money can be tight, don’t worry, we got you. Please email hello@ays.media and we are happy to accommodate!**
Invite a friend, colleague, or someone you want to grow with. We look forward to being in community with you soon.
At Your Service,
AYS POETRY CLUB DATES:
Sundays 11AM-1PM ET (8AM-10AM PT)
July 7
July 14
July 21
July 28
At Your Service
At Your Service (AYS), is a production company and community of storytellers founded by award-winning journalist Noor Tagouri. AYS work focuses on self-investigation and representation as a way understand the stories around us.
www.ays.media
HALA ALYAN is a licensed clinical psychologist, professor at New York University, and writer. She is the author of the novel SALT HOUSES, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. Her latest novel, “THE ARSONISTS' CITY, was a finalist for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize.
Hala is also the author of four award-winning collections of poetry, including THE TWENTY-NINTH YEAR. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, LitHub, The New York Times Book Review and elsewhere. Her latest poetry collection, THE MOON THAT TURNS YOU BACK, was recently published by Ecco. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
JOÉL LEON also known as Joél L. Daniels, is a Bronx-born girl dad, author, storyteller and cultural critic who writes and tells stories for Black people.
His work has been featured in the New York Times, People, The Boston Globe, ABC NEWS, TED, EBONY, Okayplayer, Pop Sugar, The Root, Newsweek, Forbes and others.
Joél is a Creative Collective NYC Creative Class alumni and winner of the BCA Bronx Recognizes Its Own Award in Poetry and author of the Holt/Macmillian essay collection, “Everything and Nothing At Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack For the Future” was published by Holt/MacMillian, June 4, 2024. Joél is repped by Folio Literary.
JEZZ CHUNG (who uses they/them pronouns) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersection of personal and collective change. Their neurodivergent, queer, Korean American experiences shape their approach to art making.
Originally from Atlanta, Georgia and Houston, Texas, they now live in New York City, where they train as a performer and vocalist and write across various mediums
Jezz is celebrated not only for their commitment to change, but for their practice of transparency and vulnerability.