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Past Events
Inaugural Sunday Series Reading
Sunday, July 1st 2018
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Readers: C. Russell Price, Kenyatta Rogers, Sara Wainscott, & Sarah Meltzer
They Said Reading
Sunday, July 22nd 2018
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Readers: Carlo Matos, Amy Sayre Baptista, Tina Jenkins Bells, Janice Tuck Lively, Anne Yoder, Matthew DeMarco, Faizan Syed, Virginia Smith Rice, Christine Pacyk, & Ben Clark
Celebration of Dancing Girl Press/Kristy Bowen
Sunday, August 19th, 2018
Readers: Kristy Bowen, Valerie Wallace, Shanita Bigelow, Cecilia Pinto, Abby Hagler, Julia Cohen, Liz O’Connell-Thompson and Sam Gennett.
Readings by Amy Sayre Baptista, Jacob Saenz, and Megan Stielstra
Sunday, September 16th, 2018
Celebration of Jacob Saenz's poetry book Throwing the Crown; Amy Sayre Baptista's flash-fiction book Primitivity; and, Megan Stielstra's book of essays The Wrong Way to Save Your Life.
Readings by Kyle Churney, José Olivarez, and Emily Jungmin Yoon
Sunday, October 21th, 2018
Celebration of Emily Jungmin Yoon's poetry book A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco Press, 2018) and Jose Olivarez's Citizen Illegal (Haymarket Books, 2018)
Readings by Tarfia Faizullah, David Welch, and Alison Rollins
Sunday, November 18th, 2018
Readers: Tarfia Faizullah, author of Seam (SIU, 2014) and Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf, 2018); David Welch, author of the forthcoming Everyone Who Is Dead (Spork Press, 2018); and, Alison Rollins, author of the forthcoming Library of Small Catastrophes (Copper Canyon Press, 2019)
Readings by Rebecca Morgan Frank, Rachel Mennies, Ruben Quesada, and Annah Browning
Sunday, Dec 16th, 2018
Readers: Rebecca Morgan Frank, author of Sometimes
We’re All Living in a Foreign Country (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2017); Rachel Mennies, author of The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards (Texas Tech University Press, 2014); and, Annah Browning, author of Witch Doctrine (University of Akron Press, forthcoming)
Readings by Elizabeth Schmuhl, Sam Herschel Wein, and Marty McConnell
Sunday, Jan 20th, 2019
Readers: Elizabeth Schmuhl, author of Premonitions (Wayne State University Press, 2018); Sam Herschel Wein, author of Fruit Mansion (Split Lip Press, 2017); and, Marty McConnell, author of when they say you can’t go home again, what they mean is you were never there (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2018)
Readings by Krista Franklin, Toni Nealie, and Leila Chatti
Sunday, Feb 10th, 2019
Readers: Krista Franklin, author of Under the Knife (Candor Arts, 2018); Toni Nealie, author of The Miles Between Me (Curbside Splendor, 2016); and, Leila Chatti, author of Tunsiya/Amrikiya
(Bull City Press, 2018)
Readings by Anders Carlson-Wee, Diana Khoi Nguyen, and Tyler Mills
Sunday, March 10th, 2019
Readers: Anders Carlson-Wee, author of The Low Passions (W.W. Norton, 2019); Diana Khoi Nguyen, author of Ghost Of (Omnidawn, 2018); and, Tyler Mills, author of Hawk Parable (University of Akron Press, 2019)
Readings by Anna Maria Hong, GennaRose Nethercott, and Vu Tran
Sunday, April 21st, 2019
Readers: Anna Maria Hong, author of Age of Glass (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2018); Vu Tran, author of Dragonfish (W. W. Norton & Company, 2015); and, GennaRose Nethercott, author of The Lumberjack's Dove (Ecco Press, 2018)
Readings by Hannah Gamble, Micah Ruelle, and Vincent Francone
Sunday, May 19th, 2019
Readers: Hannah Gamble, author of Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast (National Poetry Series; Fence Books, 2012); Micah Ruelle, author of Failure to Merge (Finishing Line Press, 2019); and, Vincent Francone, author of The Soft Lunacy (Blue Heron Books, 2019)
Readings by Maya Marshall, Connie Voisine, and Jan-Henry Gray
Sunday, June 16th, 2019
Readers: Maya Marshall, author of Secondhand (dancing girl press, 2016); Connie Voisine, author of The Bower (University of Chicago Press, 2019); and, Jan-Henry Gray, author of Documents (BOA, 2019)
Readings by John McCarthy, Amish Trivedi, and Megan Volpert
Sunday, July 21st, 2019
Readers: John McCarthy, author of Scared Violent Like Horses (Milkweed Editions, 2019); Amish Trivedi, author of Your Relationship to Motion Has Changed (Shearsman Books, 2019); and, Megan Volpert, author of Boss Broad (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019)
Readings by Juan Martinez, Jeremy T. Wilson and Ola Faleti
Sunday, August 18th, 2019
Readers: Juan Martinez, author of Best Worst American: Stories
(Small Beer Press, 2017); Jeremy T.
Wilson, author of Adult Teeth (Tortoise Books, 2018); and, Ola Faleti.
Readings by Douglas Kearney and Rebecca Makkai
Sunday, September 15th, 2019
Readers: Douglas Kearney, author of Buck Studies (Fence Books, 2016) and Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers (Penguin Books, 2018).
Readings by Tara Betts, Laura Adamczyk, and James Arthur
Sunday, October 15th, 2019
Readers: Tara Betts, author of Break the Habit (Trio House Press, 2016) Laura Adamczyk, author of The Hardly Children (FSG, 2018), and James Arthur, author of The Suicide's Son (Signal Editions, 2019)
Readings by Aricka Foreman and Fred Schmalz
Sunday, November 17th, 2019
Readers: Aricka Foreman, author of Salt Body Shimmer (YesYes Books Press, 2020) and Fred Schmalz, author of Action in the Orchards (Nightboat Books, 2019)
Readings by Nami Mun, Jennifer Steele, and Kevin Coval
Sunday, December 15th, 2019
Readers: Nami Mun, author of Miles from Nowhere (Riverhead Books, 2009), Jennifer Steele, author A House in Its Hunger (Central Square Press, 2018) of and Kevin Coval, author of Everything Must Go (Haymarket Books, 2019)
Readings by Dipika Mukherjee, Barbara Monier, and William Stobb
Sunday, January 19th, 2020
Readers: Dipika Mukherjee, author of Shambala Junction (Aurora Metro Press, 2017), Barbara Monier, author of Pushing the River (Amika Press, 2018), and William Stobb, author of You Are Still Alive (42 Miles Press, 2019)
Readings by Ignatius Aloysius, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Kenyatta Rogers, Beth McDermott, and Mike Puican
Sunday, July 11th, 2021
Readers: Ignatius Aloysius, author of Fishhead: Republic of Want (Tortoise Books, 2020), Hadara Bar-Nadav, author of The New Nudity (Saturnalia, 2017), Mike Puican, author of Central Air (TriQuarterly, 2020), and Beth McDermott How to Leave a Farmhouse (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
Readings by Daniel Suárez, Molia Dumbleton, and CM Burroughs
Sunday, August, 15th, 2021
Readers: Daniel Suárez, Molia Dumbleton, and CM Burroughs, author of Master Suffering (Tupelo Press, 2021)
Readings by Becca Klaver, Ananda Lima, and Faisal Mohyuddin
Sunday, Oct 17th, 2021
Readers: Becca Klaver, author of Ready for the World (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), Ananda Lima, author of Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), and Faisal Mohyuddin, author of The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear Publishing, 2018)
Readings by Barrie Jean Borich, Jameka Williams, and Aviya Kushner
Sunday, November, 21st, 2021
Readers: Barrie Jean Borich, author of Apocalypse, Darling (Ohio State University Press: Mad Creek Books, 2018), Jameka Williams, and Aviya Kushner, author of Wolf Lamb Bomb (Orison Books, 2021)
Readings by Nathan Hoks, Rita Mookerjee, & Zackary Sholem Berger
Sunday, Dec 19th, 2021
Readers: Nathan Hoks, author of Nests in Air (Black Ocean Press, 2021), Zackary Sholem Berger, author of Sutzkever Essential Prose (White Goat Press, 2021), and Rita Mookerjee, author of False Offering (Jackleg Press, forthcoming 2023)
Readings by Hannah Gamble, Keli Stewart, & Andrew Wells
Sunday, January 16th, 2022
Readings by Ames Hawkins, Ruben Quesada, & Sarah A. Rae
Sunday, February 20th, 2022
Readings by Erin Adair-Hodges, Diego Baez, & Dorothy Chan
Sunday, April, 17th, 2022
Readings by J.K. Chukwu, Sophie Lucido Johnson, Amanda Moore, & Daniel Story
Sunday, May 15th, 2022
Readings by Tommye Blount, Nandi Comer, James Shea, & Dorothy Tse
Sunday, June 19th, 2022
Readings by Tara Betts, Kristiana Rae Colón, & Viola Lee with guest Don Evans for the Wherever I'm At Chicago Anthology
Sunday, July 17th, 2022
Readings by Zakiya Cowan, Rachel Galvin, & James Henry Knippen
Sunday, August 21st, 2022
Readings by Virginia Bell, C. Russell Price, & Fred, Pearl, Rose Sasaki
Sunday, September 18th, 2022
Readings by Farnaz Fatemi, Stacy Gnall, & Kathleen Rooney
Sunday, October 16th, 2022
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