Exhibit B
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, December 4th, from 7PM - 8PM
Diego Báez, Temperance Aghamohammadi, Stephen Patrick Bell, and Yazud Brito-Milian will be joining Exhibit B at Pilsen Community Books for an evening of readings and community.
Artist Bios:
Diego Báez is a writer, educator, and abolitionist. He is the author of Yaguareté White (Univ Arizona, 2024), named Best New Poetry Collection by the Chicago Reader, and finalist for a Chicago Review of Books Award. He lives in Rogers Park and teaches at the City Colleges.
Yazud E. Brito-Milian (they/them) is a Chicane poet, impatient collagist, abolitionist, and eldest sister. Born in Winston-Salem, NC, and based in Chicago, IL, they are working on their first chapbook, crossfade, dedicated to their dad’s black and yellow KORG M50 and the musicians who raised them. Yazud has received fellowships from The Watering Hole, Periplus, and CantoMundo. Their work appears in Muzzle Magazine, Voicemail Poems, The Poetry Project, and Huizache Magazine. They also co-host a new reading series and open mic on the South Side called Canto-Kòjo. In Spanish, canto means “to sing,” and in Yoruba, kòjo means “together.” Yazud hopes to continue using poetry as a tool for gathering—to ensure our communities remain alive and celebrated.
Temperance Aghamohammadi is a trans Iranian-American poet, medium, and critic. She is the author of Battalion Shaped Girl (DISCOUNT GUILLOTINE, 2025). Her work has appeared in The Yale Review, New England Review, the Kenyon Review, Fairy Tale Review, and other publications.
Stephen Patrick Bell is a writer, editor, and producer raised in New York by Jamaican immigrants, currently based in Chicago where he has produced shows for The Moth StorySLAM and 2nd Story. A 2022 Lambda Literary Fellow in fiction, a Summer 2023 Tin House fellow, and a 2025 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop Peter Taylor Fellow, Stephen serves as the Interviews Editor at Foglifter Journal and Press. His work has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Interview Magazine, The Chicago Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Bomb, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a novel.
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