Please join us for an in-person event to celebrate the poetry chapbook BUTT STUFF FLOWER BUSH by Sam Herschel Wein! For this event, Wein will read with Kemi Alabi, RE Katz and Kabel Mishka Ligot.

Please note: Pre-registration for this event is required. By pre-registering, you are verifying that you are fully vaccinated and will wear a mask throughout the entirety of the event.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Wein’s Butt Stuff Flower Bush is a joyous, vulnerable, fantastically gay chapbook of poems that dance through sex, relationships, trauma, healing, and hunger. It has its share of tears, and there’s joy too. Eat, want, sing, survive, flirt.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sam Herschel Wein (he/they) is a lollygagging plum of a poet who specializes in perpetual frolicking. They have an MFA from the University of Tennessee and were the recipient of a 2022 Pushcart Prize. They have published 3 chapbooks, most recently “Butt Stuff Flower Bush” from Porkbelly Press, and are the co-founder and editor of Underblong Journal. They have recent work in American Poetry Review, The Cincinnati Review, and Gulf Coast, among others.

Kemi Alabi is the author of Against Heaven (Graywolf Press, 2022), selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award. The collection was a Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist, Chicago Review of Books Award winner, and one of New York Public Library’s Best Books of 2022. Alabi’s poems appear in The Atlantic, The Nation, Poetry, Boston Review and Best New Poets. As Head of Creativity & Impact of the reproductive justice organization Forward Together, Alabi builds cultural power with organizers and artists. They’re coeditor of The Echoing Ida Collection (Feminist Press, 2021) and a Periplus Collective mentor. Born in Wisconsin on a Sunday in July, they now live in Chicago, IL.

RE Katz is a former member of Yerbamala Collective. They are the author of And Then the Gray Heaven (Dzanc Books, 2021). They work as Narrative Director for Farewell Games. They’re interested in personal fashion, antifascist witchcraft, and television.

Kabel Mishka Ligot is a student and writer from Quezon City in the Philippines. You can find his work in Likhaan: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature, RHINO, Bear Review, Cordite, and elsewhere. Mishka has received fellowships and support from the Indiana University Writers’ Conference, Tin House Summer Workshop, and the Dalton School. Mishka is currently based in Shikaakwa (Chicago). For a half-decade, he lived in Teejop (Madison), where he taught language and studied information and poetry.

Accessibility: This event will be at the bookstore, which is a wheelchair accessible space on the ground floor. We have an ADA bathroom, adjustable lighting, and free parking in the lot behind the store. Face masks are required. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. For ASL Interpretation, reserved seating, or other access requests, please email events@womenandchildrenfirst.com.

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