A Reading With Jameka Williams, Matthew Kelsey and Rebecca Morgan Frank

Celebrate the 2024 print release of the award-winning poetry journal RHINO with a reading by three contributing poets! On Saturday, June 29, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Matthew Kelsey, and Jameka Williams will share their work at Bookends & Beginnings.

RHINO's 2024 print issue includes new work by Laura Bandy, T. De Los Reyes, Denise Duhamel, Ian-Khara Ellasante, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Alison Granucci, Jessica Hincapie, Matthew Kelsey, Maurya Kerr, Alejandro Lucero, Adrian S. Potter, Mike Puican, José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes, Joni Wallace, Evan Wang, Jameka Williams--just to name a few! Visit www.rhinopoetry.org to learn more.

The event will take place downstairs at the MiniBar from 6:00-7:30 PM. Copies of all three poets' books will be available for sale. This is a free event, but please register.

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About the poets:

Rebecca Morgan Frank is the author of four collections of poems, including Oh You Robot Saints!, and her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor at Lewis University and serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.

Matthew Kelsey is from Glens Falls, NY. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, Narrative, and elsewhere. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, as well as a Writers Week Fellowship from Idyllwild Arts. He lives in Chicago and teaches for the Kenyon Review Young Writers program.

Jameka Williams holds a MFA in poetry from Northwestern University. Her poetry has been published in Prelude Magazine, Gulf Coast, Gigantic Sequins, Muzzle Magazine, Yemassee Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize nominee, American Sex Tape™, her first collection, was the University of Wisconsin Press selection for the 2022 Brittingham Prize winner. She resides in Chicago, IL.

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