Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024
5:00 pm, Metropolis Cafe, 1039 W Granville
READERS:
Ae Hee Lee
… is the author of the full-length poetry collection ASTERISM (Tupelo Press, 2024) and the chapbooks Bedtime ||Riverbed (Compound Press, 2017), Dear bear (Platypus Press, 2021), and Connotary (Bull City Press, 2021). She has received scholarships and honors from the Academy of American Poets, AWP, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, among others. Born in South Korea and raised in Peru, she currently lives in Kenosha.
Jameka Williams
… is the author of American Sex Tape (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022). She is a Best New Poets 2020 finalist and was featured in New American Press’ Best Poetry of the Midwest 2019-2020. Her poems have also appeared in Gulf Coast, Prelude, Tupelo Quarterly, Jet Fuel Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Northwestern and lives in Chicago.
Brian Foley
… is the author of The Constitution (Black Ocean, 2014) for which he was selected as a 2014 "New American Poet" by the Poetry Society of America. His poems have appeared in PEN American, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, and elsewhere. He has worked as a bouncer, an ice cream man, a laborer, an event director, and a breakfast cook. He received a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Denver and currently lives in Chicago.
Emma Hyche
… is a poet and essayist whose work appears in Apartment, LIT, Entropy, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Picnic in the Abbattoir, was released in 2021 by dancing girl press. She lives in Chicago with her husband and cat.
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