Upcoming Public Events

March 2026, University of Illinois-Chicago

Friday April 17, 2026, Chicago, IL

Skunk Cabbage Books, with Samyak Shertok and IS Jones

Past Events

February 2026, Smith College

Friday February 27, 2026, Chicago, IL

The Queer Art of Friendship, at Women & Children First, with Gabrielle Grace Hogan, Sam Herschel Wein, and Chen Chen

Saturday September 6 – Sunday September 7, Chicago, IL

Printers Row Literary Festival, with Exhibit B

Friday October 3, Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn Poets, with Kimiko Hahn and Patricia Spears Jones

Friday October 31, Winchester, VA

Disabling the Poem, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley

Hardly Creatures Tour

🦎 Friday May 23, 6:30pm • Chicago, IL

City Lit Books, with Adrian Matejka

🦎 Thursday May 29, 6:30pm • Evanston, IL

Coffee Lab, books by The Book Stall, with Itiola Jones

🦎 Friday May 30, 7pm • Toronto, ON

Tangled Art + Disability, with the Tangled staff

🦎 Saturday May 31, 7pm • Brooklyn, NY

Unnameable Books, with Emily Skillings, Kaitlin Hsu, and Sreshtha Sen

🦎 Monday June 2, 5pm • Martha's Vineyard, MA

Featherstone Center for the Arts

Wednesday June 4 • New York City, NY

Francis Kite Club, Everything Could Be: A Party, with Ugly Duckling Presse

Thursday June 5, 7pm • New York City, NY

Poets House, with Latif Askia Ba

Friday June 6 • New York City, NY

McNally Jackson Seaport, with Ugly Duckling Presse

🦎 Saturday June 7, 7pm • Austin, TX 

Alienated Majesty Books, with Gabrielle Grace Hogan, Molly Williams, Sanjana Thakur, and Zack Schlosberg

Thursday June 12 • Houston, TX

Basket Books and Art, with francine j. harris and Steven Duong

Sunday June 15, 7pm • Chicago, IL

Sunday Reading Series

🦎 Thursday June 26, 7pm • Boston, MA

Brookline Booksmith, Third Thursday Poetry Series

Hardly Creatures and My Love is Water, with plants in the back, looking like gorgeous books, which they are