CMG’s Outset Series Resident for June is Jzl Jmz🎆🎆🎆 Jzl Jmz (FKA jayy dodd)… aka [Lady Tournament] beamed down in Los Angeles ’92 & is reuploading herself to the internet. Her professional career includes positions at Blavity, The Offing, Winter Tangerine & more. She’s been featured in the LA Times, Poetry Magazine, Oprah Magazine, Ms. Magazine, PEN America, Willamette Weekly, The New York Public Library & several anthologies. She’s the author of Mannish Tongues (Platypus Press 2017) & The 2021 Poetry Center Book Prize-winning: The Black Condition ft. Narcissus (Nightboat 2019). She curated Beyond Special Issue (a collective critique on tokenism in (Trans*) poetry) & THEE SPACE Poetry Prize with Shade Literary Arts. She’s editing Bettering American Poetry Vol. 2 (Bettering Books 2017) A Portrait in Blues (Platypus Press 2019) & Her film & performance works have been installed & screened across the country from classrooms to museums. She has been a Lambda Literary Fellow, Precipice Art Grant Recipient through Portland’s Institute of Contemporary Art & Artist-in-Residence at Ori Gallery. She’s an occasional rapper & founder of Tournament.Haus Mutual Aid Fund. Find her talking slick or in another dimension. 🎆🎆🎆

eric fury is an independent recording artist, dj, producer, and performer from brooklyn, new york city who is currently based in portland, oregon. sonically, he works across a variety of genres with a focus on tracing and connecting the histories, influences, and impact of classic and contemporary black soundscapes in modern music. with a d.i.y approach and a can-do attitude, he just wants to have as much fun as possible.