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Join us for an invigorating, inspiring evening of food, drink, and good writing, featuring contributors of 32 Poems, The Adroit Journal, AGNI, Denver Quarterly, and Quarterly West! This event is FREE, and will provide the perfect conclusion for the first day of AWP!  Please note: Seating is limited. Please RSVP via Eventbrite -- the first 100 RSVPs will be granted admission, and remaining RSVPs will be admitted on a first come, first serve basis, so don't be late! A livestream link will also be available to those who RSVP via Eventbrite and Facebook. Parties with multiple attendees should RSVP separately. LOCATION This event will be hosted in Blackjack's Lounge at Jackson's Bistro (601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Tampa). The venue is a short walk from the convention center. READERS 32 Poems  Michael Bazzett is a 2017 NEA Fellow and the author of three books of poems: You Must Remember This (Milkweed Editions, 2014), Our Lands Are Not So Different (Horsethief Books, 2017) and The Interrogation (Milkweed Editions, 2017).  Victoria Chang’s most recent book, Barbie Chang, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2017. The Boss was published by McSweeney’s. She was awarded a Guggenheim and Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship in 2017. She teaches at Antioch University in Los Angeles.  Stephen Kampa is the author of three books, Cracks in the Invisible, Bachelor Pad, and Articulate as Rain. He currently teaches at Flagler College.  Wayne Miller’s fourth poetry collection, Post- (Milkweed, 2016), won the Rilke Prize and the Colorado Book Award. Wayne teaches at the University of Colorado Denver and edits Copper Nickel. Kathleen Winter's new collection I will not kick my friends won the 2017 Elixir Poetry Prize. Poems are forthcoming from New Statesman, Prelude, Puerto del Sol and Western Humanities Review. She lives in Sonoma, California.   The Adroit Journal Paige Lewis is the author of the chapbook Reasons to Wake You (Tupelo Press, 2018). Their poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Best New Poets 2017, and elsewhere.  Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of two poetry collections, This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018). He lives in Minneapolis. Maggie Smith’s most recent books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, winner of the Dorset Prize, and Good Bones, the title poem from which has been translated into nearly a dozen languages.   AGNI Hadara Bar-Nadav is the author of several books of poetry, most recently The New Nudity and Lullaby (with Exit Sign). An NEA fellow, she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Kai Carlson-Wee is the author of Rail (BOA Editions, 2018). A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he lives in San Francisco and teaches poetry at Stanford University. Sumita Chakraborty is poetry editor of AGNI, art editor of At Length, and weeks away from completing a doctorate in English at Emory. In 2017, the Poetry Foundation awarded her a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of Telepathologies (Saturnalia Books, 2017), as well as a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellow, Cave Canem Fellow, and poetry editor at The Rumpus. Paisley Rekdal is the author, most recently, of Imaginary Vessels, and is Utah’s Poet Laureate.   Denver Quarterly Ye Chun is the author of two books of poetry, a novel in Chinese, and a collection of translations. A recipient of the NEA fellowship and two Pushcart Prizes, she teaches at Providence College. Megan Fernandes is an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. Her work has been published or forthcoming in Tin House, Ploughshares, The Common, Guernica, PANK, The Adroit Journal, among others. She lives in NYC.  Michael Wasson, a 2018 NACF National Artist Fellow in Literature and recipient of the Adrienne Rich Award, is the author of This American Ghost (YesYes Books, 2017). He is from the Nez Perce Reservation in Idaho.    Quarterly West Jess deCourcy Hinds was the 2014-15 winner of the Pen Parentis Fellowship, and second prize in the 2016 Stella Kupferberg Story Prize judged by Lauren Groff. Writing credits include: Ms., Brain Child and Quarterly West. John Jodzio's work has been featured in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney's, and One Story. He's the author of the short story collections, Knockout, Get In If You Want To Live, and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home and the newly released chapbook, This Is The Only Orientation You're Gonna Get. Raena Shirali is the author of GILT (YesYes Books, 2017). Shirali’s honors include a Pushcart Prize and the Philip Roth Residency at Bucknell University. She currently lives in Philly, and reads for Muzzle Magazine and Vinyl.  Brandon Thurman is the author of the chapbook Strange Flesh (Quarterly West, 2018). His poetry can be found in Nashville Review, Ninth Letter, The Journal, RHINO, and others. You can find him at brandonthurman.com.

Join us for an invigorating, inspiring evening of food, drink, and good writing, featuring contributors of 32 Poems, The Adroit Journal, AGNI, Denver Quarterly, and Quarterly West! This event is FREE, and will provide the perfect conclusion for the first day of AWP!  Please note: Seating is limited. Please RSVP via Eventbrite -- the first 100 RSVPs will be granted admission, and remaining RSVPs will be admitted on a first come, first serve basis, so don't be late! A livestream link will also be available to those who RSVP via Eventbrite and Facebook. Parties with multiple attendees should RSVP separately. LOCATION This event will be hosted in Blackjack's Lounge at Jackson's Bistro (601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Tampa). The venue is a short walk from the convention center. READERS 32 Poems  Michael Bazzett is a 2017 NEA Fellow and the author of three books of poems: You Must Remember This (Milkweed Editions, 2014), Our Lands Are Not So Different (Horsethief Books, 2017) and The Interrogation (Milkweed Editions, 2017).  Victoria Chang’s most recent book, Barbie Chang, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2017. The Boss was published by McSweeney’s. She was awarded a Guggenheim and Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship in 2017. She teaches at Antioch University in Los Angeles.  Stephen Kampa is the author of three books, Cracks in the Invisible, Bachelor Pad, and Articulate as Rain. He currently teaches at Flagler College.  Wayne Miller’s fourth poetry collection, Post- (Milkweed, 2016), won the Rilke Prize and the Colorado Book Award. Wayne teaches at the University of Colorado Denver and edits Copper Nickel. Kathleen Winter's new collection I will not kick my friends won the 2017 Elixir Poetry Prize. Poems are forthcoming from New Statesman, Prelude, Puerto del Sol and Western Humanities Review. She lives in Sonoma, California.   The Adroit Journal Paige Lewis is the author of the chapbook Reasons to Wake You (Tupelo Press, 2018). Their poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Best New Poets 2017, and elsewhere.  Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of two poetry collections, This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018). He lives in Minneapolis. Maggie Smith’s most recent books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, winner of the Dorset Prize, and Good Bones, the title poem from which has been translated into nearly a dozen languages.   AGNI Hadara Bar-Nadav is the author of several books of poetry, most recently The New Nudity and Lullaby (with Exit Sign). An NEA fellow, she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Kai Carlson-Wee is the author of Rail (BOA Editions, 2018). A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he lives in San Francisco and teaches poetry at Stanford University. Sumita Chakraborty is poetry editor of AGNI, art editor of At Length, and weeks away from completing a doctorate in English at Emory. In 2017, the Poetry Foundation awarded her a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of Telepathologies (Saturnalia Books, 2017), as well as a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellow, Cave Canem Fellow, and poetry editor at The Rumpus. Paisley Rekdal is the author, most recently, of Imaginary Vessels, and is Utah’s Poet Laureate.   Denver Quarterly Ye Chun is the author of two books of poetry, a novel in Chinese, and a collection of translations. A recipient of the NEA fellowship and two Pushcart Prizes, she teaches at Providence College. Megan Fernandes is an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. Her work has been published or forthcoming in Tin House, Ploughshares, The Common, Guernica, PANK, The Adroit Journal, among others. She lives in NYC.  Michael Wasson, a 2018 NACF National Artist Fellow in Literature and recipient of the Adrienne Rich Award, is the author of This American Ghost (YesYes Books, 2017). He is from the Nez Perce Reservation in Idaho.    Quarterly West Jess deCourcy Hinds was the 2014-15 winner of the Pen Parentis Fellowship, and second prize in the 2016 Stella Kupferberg Story Prize judged by Lauren Groff. Writing credits include: Ms., Brain Child and Quarterly West. John Jodzio's work has been featured in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney's, and One Story. He's the author of the short story collections, Knockout, Get In If You Want To Live, and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home and the newly released chapbook, This Is The Only Orientation You're Gonna Get. Raena Shirali is the author of GILT (YesYes Books, 2017). Shirali’s honors include a Pushcart Prize and the Philip Roth Residency at Bucknell University. She currently lives in Philly, and reads for Muzzle Magazine and Vinyl.  Brandon Thurman is the author of the chapbook Strange Flesh (Quarterly West, 2018). His poetry can be found in Nashville Review, Ninth Letter, The Journal, RHINO, and others. You can find him at brandonthurman.com.

Join us for an invigorating, inspiring evening of food, drink, and good writing, featuring contributors of 32 Poems, The Adroit Journal, AGNI, Denver Quarterly, and Quarterly West! This event is FREE, and will provide the perfect conclusion for the first day of AWP!  Please note: Seating is limited. Please RSVP via Eventbrite -- the first 100 RSVPs will be granted admission, and remaining RSVPs will be admitted on a first come, first serve basis, so don't be late! A livestream link will also be available to those who RSVP via Eventbrite and Facebook. Parties with multiple attendees should RSVP separately. LOCATION This event will be hosted in Blackjack's Lounge at Jackson's Bistro (601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Tampa). The venue is a short walk from the convention center. READERS 32 Poems  Michael Bazzett is a 2017 NEA Fellow and the author of three books of poems: You Must Remember This (Milkweed Editions, 2014), Our Lands Are Not So Different (Horsethief Books, 2017) and The Interrogation (Milkweed Editions, 2017).  Victoria Chang’s most recent book, Barbie Chang, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2017. The Boss was published by McSweeney’s. She was awarded a Guggenheim and Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship in 2017. She teaches at Antioch University in Los Angeles.  Stephen Kampa is the author of three books, Cracks in the Invisible, Bachelor Pad, and Articulate as Rain. He currently teaches at Flagler College.  Wayne Miller’s fourth poetry collection, Post- (Milkweed, 2016), won the Rilke Prize and the Colorado Book Award. Wayne teaches at the University of Colorado Denver and edits Copper Nickel. Kathleen Winter's new collection I will not kick my friends won the 2017 Elixir Poetry Prize. Poems are forthcoming from New Statesman, Prelude, Puerto del Sol and Western Humanities Review. She lives in Sonoma, California.   The Adroit Journal Paige Lewis is the author of the chapbook Reasons to Wake You (Tupelo Press, 2018). Their poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Best New Poets 2017, and elsewhere.  Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of two poetry collections, This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018). He lives in Minneapolis. Maggie Smith’s most recent books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, winner of the Dorset Prize, and Good Bones, the title poem from which has been translated into nearly a dozen languages.   AGNI Hadara Bar-Nadav is the author of several books of poetry, most recently The New Nudity and Lullaby (with Exit Sign). An NEA fellow, she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Kai Carlson-Wee is the author of Rail (BOA Editions, 2018). A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he lives in San Francisco and teaches poetry at Stanford University. Sumita Chakraborty is poetry editor of AGNI, art editor of At Length, and weeks away from completing a doctorate in English at Emory. In 2017, the Poetry Foundation awarded her a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of Telepathologies (Saturnalia Books, 2017), as well as a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellow, Cave Canem Fellow, and poetry editor at The Rumpus. Paisley Rekdal is the author, most recently, of Imaginary Vessels, and is Utah’s Poet Laureate.   Denver Quarterly Ye Chun is the author of two books of poetry, a novel in Chinese, and a collection of translations. A recipient of the NEA fellowship and two Pushcart Prizes, she teaches at Providence College. Megan Fernandes is an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. Her work has been published or forthcoming in Tin House, Ploughshares, The Common, Guernica, PANK, The Adroit Journal, among others. She lives in NYC.  Michael Wasson, a 2018 NACF National Artist Fellow in Literature and recipient of the Adrienne Rich Award, is the author of This American Ghost (YesYes Books, 2017). He is from the Nez Perce Reservation in Idaho.    Quarterly West Jess deCourcy Hinds was the 2014-15 winner of the Pen Parentis Fellowship, and second prize in the 2016 Stella Kupferberg Story Prize judged by Lauren Groff. Writing credits include: Ms., Brain Child and Quarterly West. John Jodzio's work has been featured in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney's, and One Story. He's the author of the short story collections, Knockout, Get In If You Want To Live, and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home and the newly released chapbook, This Is The Only Orientation You're Gonna Get. Raena Shirali is the author of GILT (YesYes Books, 2017). Shirali’s honors include a Pushcart Prize and the Philip Roth Residency at Bucknell University. She currently lives in Philly, and reads for Muzzle Magazine and Vinyl.  Brandon Thurman is the author of the chapbook Strange Flesh (Quarterly West, 2018). His poetry can be found in Nashville Review, Ninth Letter, The Journal, RHINO, and others. You can find him at brandonthurman.com.

Join us for an invigorating, inspiring evening of food, drink, and good writing, featuring contributors of 32 Poems, The Adroit Journal, AGNI, Denver Quarterly, and Quarterly West! This event is FREE, and will provide the perfect conclusion for the first day of AWP!  Please note: Seating is limited. Please RSVP via Eventbrite -- the first 100 RSVPs will be granted admission, and remaining RSVPs will be admitted on a first come, first serve basis, so don't be late! A livestream link will also be available to those who RSVP via Eventbrite and Facebook. Parties with multiple attendees should RSVP separately. LOCATION This event will be hosted in Blackjack's Lounge at Jackson's Bistro (601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Tampa). The venue is a short walk from the convention center. READERS 32 Poems  Michael Bazzett is a 2017 NEA Fellow and the author of three books of poems: You Must Remember This (Milkweed Editions, 2014), Our Lands Are Not So Different (Horsethief Books, 2017) and The Interrogation (Milkweed Editions, 2017).  Victoria Chang’s most recent book, Barbie Chang, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2017. The Boss was published by McSweeney’s. She was awarded a Guggenheim and Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship in 2017. She teaches at Antioch University in Los Angeles.  Stephen Kampa is the author of three books, Cracks in the Invisible, Bachelor Pad, and Articulate as Rain. He currently teaches at Flagler College.  Wayne Miller’s fourth poetry collection, Post- (Milkweed, 2016), won the Rilke Prize and the Colorado Book Award. Wayne teaches at the University of Colorado Denver and edits Copper Nickel. Kathleen Winter's new collection I will not kick my friends won the 2017 Elixir Poetry Prize. Poems are forthcoming from New Statesman, Prelude, Puerto del Sol and Western Humanities Review. She lives in Sonoma, California.   The Adroit Journal Paige Lewis is the author of the chapbook Reasons to Wake You (Tupelo Press, 2018). Their poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Best New Poets 2017, and elsewhere.  Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of two poetry collections, This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018). He lives in Minneapolis. Maggie Smith’s most recent books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, winner of the Dorset Prize, and Good Bones, the title poem from which has been translated into nearly a dozen languages.   AGNI Hadara Bar-Nadav is the author of several books of poetry, most recently The New Nudity and Lullaby (with Exit Sign). An NEA fellow, she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Kai Carlson-Wee is the author of Rail (BOA Editions, 2018). A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he lives in San Francisco and teaches poetry at Stanford University. Sumita Chakraborty is poetry editor of AGNI, art editor of At Length, and weeks away from completing a doctorate in English at Emory. In 2017, the Poetry Foundation awarded her a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of Telepathologies (Saturnalia Books, 2017), as well as a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellow, Cave Canem Fellow, and poetry editor at The Rumpus. Paisley Rekdal is the author, most recently, of Imaginary Vessels, and is Utah’s Poet Laureate.   Denver Quarterly Ye Chun is the author of two books of poetry, a novel in Chinese, and a collection of translations. A recipient of the NEA fellowship and two Pushcart Prizes, she teaches at Providence College. Megan Fernandes is an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. Her work has been published or forthcoming in Tin House, Ploughshares, The Common, Guernica, PANK, The Adroit Journal, among others. She lives in NYC.  Michael Wasson, a 2018 NACF National Artist Fellow in Literature and recipient of the Adrienne Rich Award, is the author of This American Ghost (YesYes Books, 2017). He is from the Nez Perce Reservation in Idaho.    Quarterly West Jess deCourcy Hinds was the 2014-15 winner of the Pen Parentis Fellowship, and second prize in the 2016 Stella Kupferberg Story Prize judged by Lauren Groff. Writing credits include: Ms., Brain Child and Quarterly West. John Jodzio's work has been featured in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney's, and One Story. He's the author of the short story collections, Knockout, Get In If You Want To Live, and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home and the newly released chapbook, This Is The Only Orientation You're Gonna Get. Raena Shirali is the author of GILT (YesYes Books, 2017). Shirali’s honors include a Pushcart Prize and the Philip Roth Residency at Bucknell University. She currently lives in Philly, and reads for Muzzle Magazine and Vinyl.  Brandon Thurman is the author of the chapbook Strange Flesh (Quarterly West, 2018). His poetry can be found in Nashville Review, Ninth Letter, The Journal, RHINO, and others. You can find him at brandonthurman.com.

A literary magazine named after the Vedic fire-god. Transformative. The writer in witness, the imagination in combustion.

A literary magazine named after the Vedic fire-god. Transformative. The writer in witness, the imagination in combustion.

A literary magazine named after the Vedic fire-god. Transformative. The writer in witness, the imagination in combustion.