April Poetry Reading

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• Monday, Apr 21, 2025  5:30pm - 7:30pm

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Join us on Monday, April 21st at 5:30 as we welcome four esteemed poets to Francie & Finch Bookshop! MC Hyland, Elizabeth Clark Wessel, Luis Othoniel Rosa, and Katie Marya will be reading from their collections. Bring a friend, enjoy refreshments, and listen to poetry!

MC Hyland (she/they) is the founding editor of DoubleCross Press, a poetry micropress. She is the author of over a dozen poetry chapbooks/artist books and two previous full-length books of poems, THE END (Sidebrow 2019) and Neveragainland (Lowbrow Press 2010). Her book of short essays, The Dead and the Living and the Bridge, is out with Meekling Press this April, and a book collecting poems from two long-running art practices, Walks & Weathers, will be published by Beauty School Editions later this year. Holding MFAs in book arts and creative writing from the University of Alabama and a PhD in English literature from NYU, MC is a teacher, scholar, artist, and freelance editor/fundraiser, and lives in St. Paul, MN with her partner, Jeff, and cat, Dakota.

Elizabeth Clark Wessel lives in Stockholm, Sweden and works as a translator of Swedish literature. She was born in rural Nebraska and lived for many years in New York, where she pursued a BA at Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA at Columbia University. In 2010, she co-founded Argos Books, which has been publishing innovative poetry books ever since. She’s the author of four chapbooks of poetry, and her poems have appeared in Fence, Boston Review, and the American Poetry Review. None of It Belongs to Me (Game Over Books, 2024) is her first full-length collection.

Luis Othoniel Rosa (Bayamón, Puerto Rico, in 1985) studied at the University of Puerto Rico and earned his Ph.D. at Princeton. He is the author of the short novels Otra vez me alejo (2012) and Caja de fractales (2017). The last one was translated into English as Down with Gargamel! (2020). He is also the author of the bilingual collection of poems, Triste la furia / Sadness, the Fury (2025), of the bilingual artisanal book, Calima (2023), and of the scholarly book, Comienzos para una estética anarquista: Borges con Macedonio (2016; 2020). He is the founding and current head editor  of El Roommate: Colectivo de Lectores and a founding member of The LOUDREADERS Trade School. He is the Associate Director of the Institute for Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska. To find more, visit luisothonielrosa.com

Katie Marya is a writer from Atlanta, Georgia. Her work has appeared in literary magazines such as Southern Indiana Review, North American Review, Guernica, Waxwing, AGNI, Fence, and on the national poetry podcast The Slowdown Show. Her debut poetry collection Sugar Work was the Editor's Choice for the 2020 Alice James Book Award. Marya lives in Nebraska where she teaches writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.