Desert Split Open Mic Founder Susan Rukeyser reflects on 5 years of radical writers in the hi desert
Listen here: The Desert Split Open Mic local reading series, featuring feminist, queer, or otherwise radical writers, celebrates its five-year anniversary tonight (Sunday, January 21st), at Joshua Tree’s Beatnik Lounge from 6-8PM. When Desert Split Open founder and host Susan Rukeyser moved to Joshua Tree right before her 50th birthday, she got the serenity she came for. Yet, even as its writing community embraced her, she witnessed a silence where a conversation was missing. “I…