Exhibit B presents Charif Shanahan, Helene Achanzar, Juan Martinez, and S. Yarberry
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, February 29th, from 7PM - 8PM
Join Exhibit B for their February reading at Pilsen Community Books featuring Charif Shanahan, Helene Achanzar, Juan Martinez, and S. Yarberry.
Charif Shanahan is the author of two collections of poetry: Trace Evidence: poems (Tin House, 2023), which is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and was longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry; and Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry/SIU Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University.
Helene Achanzar is a poet and editor whose writing has appeared in Sixth Finch, Quarterly West, Georgia Review, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2022 New England Review Award for Emerging Writers, her work has been supported by Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Mastheads. She is a senior editor for Poetry Northwest, Midwest Regional Chair for Kundiman, and Director of Programs at the Chicago Poetry Center.
Juan Martinez is a writer and an associate professor of English at Northwestern University and the author of the horror novel Extended Stay (University of Arizona Press / Camino del Sol, 2023) and of the story collection Best Worst American (Small Beer Press, 2017). I’m also a core faculty member for StoryStudio and the fiction editor for Jackleg Press. I live with my family near Chicago.
S. Yarberry is a trans poet and writer. Their poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in AGNI, Guernica, Tin House, Indiana Review, jubilat, The Boiler, miscellaneous zines, among others. They currently run the little magazine Tyger Quarterly. S. has their MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis and is now a PhD candidate in literature at Northwestern University where they study William Blake. They have a chapbook called To Seem the Stranger published by Bottlecap Press and their first full-length book of poems, A Boy in the City, is out now from Deep Vellum.
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