Exhibit B | A Literary Variety Show
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, November 9th, at 7PM
Exhibit B’s November reading at Pilsen Community Books will feature poetry, prose, and a piano as authors Willie Lin, S.L. Wisenberg, and Michael Dean, will be joined by pianist Marissa Kerbel for a special evening.
S.L. Wisenberg‘s fourth book, “The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home” won the 2022 Juniper Prize in creative nonfiction. She also writes fiction and some poetry, edits Another Chicago Magazine, and is a freelance editor and writing coach.
Marissa Kerbel is a pianist and pedagogue based out of Chicago, IL. She can often be heard performing throughout the Midwest and maintains an active private studio out of her home in Chicago.
Marissa is passionate about performing as both a soloist and a collaborator. She currently serves as an Associate Member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and holds substitute positions with the New World Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, and South Dakota Symphony Orchestra. Marissa is one of the founding members of the chamber music collective O L E A through which she performs new and underperformed works for small chamber ensembles. Her debut album, In 24 Years: The Instrumental Music of Lili Boulanger, serves as the first complete recording of Lili Boulanger’s repertoire for the piano as both a solo and collaborative instrument.
Willie Lin was born in Beijing, China and lives and works in Chicago, IL. Her poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Threepenny Review, among other journals. She’s the author of the chapbooks Lesser Bird of Paradise (MIEL) and Instructions for Folding (Northwestern University Press), winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize, and has received fellowship and scholarship support from Kundiman and the Summer Workshop Program at the Fine Arts Work Center.
Michael Dean is a Chicago-based poet. They are an MFA candidate in creadive writing at DePaul University. They have work published or forthcoming in Hooligan Magazine and Poetry East. He’s also an assistant editor at Another Chicago Magazine.
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