Join us for a free reading celebrating Matthew Klane and James Bellflower’s new book, Hist.

Prince Bush is a poet from Nashville, Tennessee with poems in Black Warrior Review, The Journal, PANK, and others. A student at Iowa Writers’ Workshop for poetry, he volunteers as a poetry reader for Poetry Northwest.

Matthew Klane has an MA in Poetics from SUNY Buffalo and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His books include Hist (w/ James Belflower, Calamari 2022), Canyons (w/ James Belflower, Flimb Press 2016), Che (Stockport Flats 2013) and B (Stockport Flats 2008). An e-chapbook from Of the Day is online at Delete Press, an e-book My is online at Fence Digital, and a chapbook Poetical Sketches is available from The Magnificent Field. He currently lives and writes in Albany, NY. See: matthewklane.com.

India Johnson is a Minneapolis-based artist who makes books and non-books. India’s artwork associates textiles with formal practices for organizing information. She received an MFA from the University of Iowa Center for the Book in 2020. India has installed site-specific work in churches and libraries, both regionally and nationally. India's essays about the book as sculpture have been published online and in print by Engaging Collections Journal, Image Journal, the College Book Art Association Book Art Theory Blog, and in SONNET(S) (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020). She also writes PAPEREATERS, an occasional email newsletter about eating books and paper.  

Danika Stegeman LeMay’s work has appeared in 32 Poems, Afternoon Visitor, APARTMENT, Blue Arrangements, CLOAK, Concision, Leavings, The Woodward Review and Word for/ Word, among other places, and is forthcoming in Ethel Zine. Her video poem, “Then Betelgeuse Reappears” was an official selection for the 2021 Midwest Video Poetry Festival. Danika’s debut collection of poems, Pilot (2020), was published by Spork Press. Her website is danikastegemanlemay.com.