October 10, 2026
6:00 pm, Monarch Community Cafe, 7010 N Clark St
(NEW TIME & VENUE!!!)
READERS:
Marianne Chan
is the author of two poetry collections: Leaving Biddle City (Sarabande, 2024) and All Heathens (Sarabande, 2020). She has been awarded the GLCA New Writers Award in Poetry, the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding Achievement, and her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Raised in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan, she currently teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Lisa Low
is the author of the full-length poetry collection Replica (University of Wisconsin Press, 2026) and the chapbook Crown for the Girl Inside (YesYesBooks, 2023). Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel, Ecotone, The Massachusetts Review,Poetry, The Southern Review, and elsewhere, and her essay “How to Apologize” won the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize. Originally from Maryland, she currently lives in Chicago.
Gazmend Kapllani
is an Albanian-born author, journalist, and scholar. He is the author of four novels—A Short Border Handbook, My Name is Europe, The Last Page, and Wrongland—widely translated from the original Greek and Albanian. Across genres, his work focuses on borders, totalitarianism, migration, and identity. He has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard and a writer-in-residence at Brown, and he currently chairs theDepartment of Albanian Studies at DePaul.
Eniko Deptuch Vaghy
is a writer, artist, and editor based in Chicago and nurturing ties in upstate New York. Her poems have appeared in Poets.org, Stone Circle Review, Luna Luna, and elsewhere, and she is the founding editor of the literary and arts journal Lover’s Eye Press. She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois Chicago, where she currently works as a visiting lecturer.
Alyx Chandler
is the author of the poetry chapbook Hollering Spell (Finishing Line Press, 2025), with a second chapbook forthcoming in 2027. Her poems have appeared in Southeast Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The McNeese Review, and elsewhere. She is a former journalist and current Poet-in-Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center.
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