Saturday September 25 * 7pm * outside at Rhizome

Gabriel Kruis is a poet, educator and arts administrator from New Mexico. He is a cofounder of Wendy’s Subway and the author of Acid Virga (Archway Editions, 2020). His work has been published in A Perfect Vacuum, the PEN America Poetry Series, OmniVerse, the Brooklyn Rail, the Atlas Review, Frontier Poetry and elsewhere. Kruis is editor and contributor to Martha Tuttle’s Return to the Field (Wendy's Subway, 2021). https://gabrielkruis.com

Stacy Szymaszek is the author of the books Emptied of All Ships (2005), Hyperglossia (2009), hart island (2015), Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals (2016), which won the Ottoline Prize from Fence Books and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2017, and A Year From Today (2018). Their book, Famous Hermits, will be published in 2021 by Archway Editions. They are currently looking for a publisher for The Pasolini Book, a collection of their writings through Pasolini since 2004. Once the director of The Poetry Project (2007-18), they now make a living freelancing and working at a library. They currently live in upstate NY with their partner, the poet Kimberly Alidio, on the sacred homelands of the Munsee and Muhheaconneok people, who, due to forced removal, reside in Northeast Wisconsin as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. Visit stacyszymaszek.org for more.

Kimberly Alidio is the author of why letter ellipses (selva oscura); : once teeth bones coral : (Belladonna*), a Lambda Literary Award Finalist; a cell of falls (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs); and after projects the resound (Black Radish). Her current projects include Teeter, a hybrid book and album on sound composing and language, and Ambient Mom, a translingual, intermedia work on the affective prosody of a mother tongue one does not understand. Her poetry and prose is anthologized in Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene; Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora; Puñeta: Pilipinx Political Poetry; and Q&A: Voices from Queer Asian North America. https://www.kimberlyalidio.com

Matt Longabucco is the author of M/W: An essay on Jean Eustache’s La maman et la putain (Ugly Duckling Presse 2021). He has published numerous chapbooks of poems, including Heroic Dose and The Sober Day. Poems and essays have appeared recently in Mirage, Lana Turner, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. He teaches writing, innovative pedagogy, and critical theory at New York University and at Bard College’s Institute for Writing & Thinking.