Saturday May 17 * 7pm * $10-20

Elizabeth Willis is the author of Liontaming in America (New Directions, 2024), a hybrid work engaged with American belief and relationship structures, theatre, activism, and film. Her other books of poetry include Alive (New York Review Books, 2015), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as Address; Meteoric Flowers; Turneresque; The Human Abstract; and the artist’s book Spectral Evidence . She also writes about the intersection of art and labor and edited the volume Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place. She teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Beth Joselow is the author of eight books and chapbooks of poems, the most recent being Someone Is Awake All Night (2024). She has often collaborated with visual artists, notably Pablo Makov of Kharkiv, Ukraine, and the late Dennis O’Neil of Alexandria, VA. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including American Poetry Review, Gargoyle, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Boston Review and New American Writing. She is the author of Writing Without The Muse, a popular book of writing exercises. She lives in Silver Spring, MD.