Friday April 14 * 7 pm * RSVP

Justin Marks’ books are, If This Should Reach You in Time (Barrelhouse Books, 2022) The Comedown, (Publishing Genius Press, 2021), You’re Going to Miss Me When You’re Bored, (Barrelhouse Books, 2014) and A Million in Prizes (New Issues, 2009). He is a co-founder of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press, and lives in New York City with his family.

Ryan Walker’s in Florida when he wrote this. He pronounces it Floridia in his head. He lives in Washington, DC. I’m thinking about how it might be upsetting to people when I’m genuinely curious about them and don’t pressure them to experience things like I do. That respect implies a world of restraint and ambiguity, I suppose. People are sometimes afraid of that world. Ryan is smug about negative capability.