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Forget Why Poetry Series: Chris Nealon & Alexis Almeida

Friday November 15 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Chris Nealon teaches in the English Department at Johns Hopkins, and lives in Washington, DC. He is the author of five books of poetry, including Heteronomy (Edge Books) and The Shore (Wave Books), which was a finalist for the 2020 National Critics’ Book Circle Award. His latest volume is All About You.

Alexis Almeida grew up in Chicago. She is the author of the chapbooks I Have Never Been Able to Sing (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), and Things I Have Made a Fiction, which was recently the winner of the Oversound Chapbook Prize. Her first full-length book, Caetano, will be out with the Elephants in 2025, and her translation of Roberta Iannamico's Many Poems will be out with The Song Cave later this year. She teaches at the Bard Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library and Columbia's School of Narrative Medicine, and edits 18 Owls Press.

Earlier Event: November 14
Camp Saint Helene / Sloot / Hatchetface