“the season passes a rapid hand
through the trees; don’t believe
the wind is absent-minded,
that sleep is guaranteed”
–Etel Adnan
readings & works by
Tess Brown-Lavoie
J’Lyn Chapman
Aubrey King
Madeline Rose
05/18/2024
doors at 6PM
reading at 7pm
Tess Brown-Lavoie is author of Lite Year (2019), winner of the Fence Modern Poets Series Prize. Other writing has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, Berkeley Poetry Review, Apogee Journal, and Fence Magazine. Tess co-founded Sidewalk Ends Farm in Providence, RI in 2011, and was the 2020-2022 Anne Waldman Fellow at Naropa University. Tess currently teaches writing to architecture students at the Pratt Institute in New York.
J’Lyn Chapman is a writer, teacher, artist, and the author of To Limn / Lying In, winner of the PANK Nonfiction Book Contest (2020), Beastlife (Calamari Archive, 2016), and the chapbooks A Thing of Shreds and Patches (Essay Press, 2016) and Bear Stories (Calamari Press 2008). She also curated the interview chapbook The Form Our Curiosity Takes (Essay Press 2015). Chapman holds a PhD in English from the University of Denver and an MA in English from the University of Central Florida and currently coordinates the MA in Creative Writing, Literature, and Pedagogy Specializations at Regis University in Denver, Colorado.
Aubrey King is a nonbinary poet and writer living in San Francisco. They received an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where they were the Allen Ginsberg Graduate Fellow. Recent poems appear in Poetry, Warm Milk, Gramma Press, and others. They are an editor at Pocket Samovar and the interview correspondent at TERSE. Find them @aubfuscate.
Madeline Rose is a poet from Bakersfield living in Oakland. Work can be found in boundary 2, Denver Quarterly, diSONARE, The Back Room, and elsewhere. Madeline was a fellowship recipient at and has an MFA from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School.