The Splice Poetry Series: Mia Kang & Erika Hodges

Mia Kang & Erika Hodges will read their poems at Saturn Bar on Saturday, June 14^th @ 6:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public and is supported in part by http://litwire.org/

Mia Kang (she/her) is the author of All Empires Must (Airlie Press, 2025), which won the 2023 Airlie Prize, and the chapbooks Apparent Signs (Ghost City Press, 2024) and City Poems (ignitionpress, 2020). She is best known (barely known) as the self-appointed Poet Laureate of the Process, in which capacity she has appeared as a guest on the Rights to Ricky Sanchez podcast. Whatever prizes she has won, she paid for three-fold in submission fees.

Erika Hodges is a poet, performer, and nearly-attorney in New Orleans. Recent work can be found in places such as diSONARE, Cobra Milk, and Rise Up Review. They received their MFA from Pratt Institute and their chapbook There Are Tunnels is out of print but we are working on a reprint. Stay tuned. They serve as Senior Articles Editor of the Tulane International & Comparative Journal of Law. They teach in prisons. They use their poet skills to try and beat the law, they sometimes win. Their current work examines the useful distance between the academy and working artists, aging, Appalachian murder ballads, and anti-love poems. They recently graduated from Tulane Law and will be a Public Defender at Orleans Public Defenders this fall.