Marina Carreira at DreamPlay Sessions
Luso-American poet and founding member of the Brick City Collective, Marina Carreira reads from her reflective poem, drawing from her experience growing up queer in an immigrant neighborhood of Newark, NJ, “Ten Things I Never Got to Say to The Homophobic Portuguese Woman on Ferry Street” at DreamPlay Sessions 02.
Filmed and recorded live at ODR Studios in Newark, NJ.
About Marina Carreira
Marina Carreira is a queer Luso-American writer and artist from Newark, NJ who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University, NJ. Marina’s chapbook, “I Sing to That Bird Knowing It Won’t Sing Back” was published May 2017 by Finishing Line Press. Her first full-length poetry collection, “Save the Bathwater”, is out now and published by Get Fresh Books. Her work is featured in Paterson Literary Review, The Acentos Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Hinchas de Poesia, Luna Luna, among others. Marina has showcased her art in group exhibitions and festivals at the Ironbound Cultural Center’s Shiman Gallery, Hahne & Co., Gallery 211, and Living Incubator Performance Space {LIPS} in the Gateway Project Spaces in Newark, NJ. She is founding member of “Brick City Collective”, a Newark-based multicultural, multimedia group working for social change through the arts.
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