An Evening of Poetry: Marty Cain, Stefania Gomez, and Carleen Tibbetts
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, April 3rd, from 7PM - 8PM
Marty Cain is a poet originally from southern Vermont. He is the author of three books of poetry and hybrid writing: Kids of the Black Hole (2017) and The Wound Is (Not) Real: A Memoir (2022), both from Trembling Pillow Press; and most recently, The Prelude (Action Books, 2023). Individual works appear in Best American Experimental Writing, Fence, Denver Quarterly, Sink Review, mercury firs, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi and a PhD from Cornell, where he is currently a postdoctoral fellow. He lives with his spouse and daughter in Ithaca, NY, where he co-edits Garden-Door Press and is the occasional vocalist for punk band Joyous Shrub.
Stefania Gomez (she/her) is a queer writer, teacher, and audio artist from Chicago’s South Side who received her MFA in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis in 2022. Currently teaching at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, she has received fellowships from the Dirt Palace, Sewanee Writers Workshop, Lambda Literary, and the International Quilt Museum. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series, Annulet, The Cincinnati Review, The Bennington Review, and Tupelo Quarterly.
Carleen Tibbetts is the author of dossier for the postverbal (Carrion Bloom Books, 2023), DATACLYSM.jpg (White Stag, 2019), DATACLYSM.jpg (Radioactive Cloud, 2018), and to exosk(Elle), the last sugar (Zoo Cake, 2015). Her work has appeared in jubilat, Sink, TYPO, The Pinch, The Laurel Review, Forklift Ohio, Dreginald, Datableed, and other publications. She is the poetry editor for Dream Pop Press.
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