Resistance Dreams, an interactive collaboration hosted by Red Rover Series, will involve any writers who wish to participate. Our goals are to foster innovative forms, aesthetic solidarities, and a multifarious performance with this year’s NOPF community so all have the opportunity to improvise in live space and time together. We will continue to recruit collaborators up to the start of the 2025 festival.
Ghost Proposal Press hosts a celebration of Ian U Lockaby’s new chapbook A Seam of Electricity. Also featuring GP contributors Jimin Seo, Olga Mikolaivna, and Matthew Broaddus reading work that transcends traditional genre boundaries.
Join us for a reading featuring four queer/trans Texas poets, Aliah Lavonne Tigh, Keagan Wheat, Anthony Sutton, and Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal. Each of these readers plays with queerness and pop culture. Aliah Lavonne Tigh (Weren't We Natural Swimmers, 2022) moves through lyrical landscapes with a shifting scope of natural disaster, world politics, and personal heartache, which allows a fascinating closeness for the reader. Keagan Wheat (Viaticum, 2022) is a Latinx, trans poet exploring disability and trans identity through dead qualities and community connection.
A reading by poets near and far, hosted by Pitymilk Press and Bathmatics - Chelsea Tadeyeske (Milwaukee, WI), Edie Roberts (Detroit, MI), Dylan Krieger (Baton Rouge, LA) and Alix Jason (New Orleans, LA)
Winter Editions is a literary small press with a particular focus on poetry and its intersections with the essay, the novel, and the visual and performing arts, as well as books that investigate print culture and poetics. Founded in 2023, WE supports writing which pursues an “other” way—opposing generic constructs and codified forms, or offering unfamiliar, outsider, or marginalized perspectives. Just as these works derive meaning from their publishing contexts, WE finds its purpose reciprocally through their slow and steady publication.
Poets Kelly Hoffer, Jennifer Whalen, Margaret Yapp, and Sebastian Paramo read from recently published work (Lightscatter Press, Rampage Party Press, Northwestern University Press) . Moderator, Lisa Bickmore, publisher and editor at Lightscatter Press Each author has experience in translating poetry into other modes--Lightscatter Press's mission is literary multimodal poetry, which means an experience in a non-alphabetic mode, designed for the published books. Other authors have staged reading and performance series, and make letter-pressed broadsides.
A multilingual experience decentralizes a singular origin, turning languages pliable and open to exchanges and confrontations between culturally contextual milieus, as though mirrors for one another, layering multitudes of encounters and definitions.
This reading will celebrate the final issue of Rigorous: A journal edited and written by people of color which was founded by Rosalyn Spencer and Kenning JP García. The works will range in styles and themes to reflect the diversity of work coming from some of the most interesting and innovative writers of color at work today. Readers will include: Rone Shavers, Khaya Osborne, Rob Arnold, Genève Chao, Tameca L Coleman, and Roman Johnson as well as some thoughts and thanks by Rosalyn Spencer. Kenning JP García will host the event.
This is a collective performance by an ensemble which has grown organically out of community reading and listening practices we have done in NYC in a small monthly reading group. Together we performed Lucia Hinojosa Gaxiola’s poem Decompositions from her book the Telaraña Circuit (Tender Buttons Press, 2023) which features performative visual text and spacing that suggest staccato and multivocal work. We are interested in how performance opens a text for readers, listeners and authors and can also produce new work.
This group reading will bring together poets and translators who have been published by Tripwire, demonstrating a range of international voices and political poetries. Featured readers include Carlos Soto Román, Erasmo Pantoja/Biblioteca Popular de Bruce Lee, Cait O'Kane, editor David Buuck, and 1-2 other poets.