House Poet 29: The Cruelest Month

House Poet: Cruelest Month

Wednesday, April 29 @ Fergies Pub
featuring: Emily Reed, Shannon Frost Greenstein, Christopher Clauss
+ DJ Khaleel Mason

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Emily Rose Reed is a queer trans chaotic mess of a DIY musician, writer, and all around sweetie from Philly/South Jersey who makes music under the name How I Became Invisible. If you have a band she’s probably in it, and she might also be your girlfriend. Find her music at howibecameinvisible.com, and everywhere except Spotify because they’re a garbage company.

Shannon Frost Greenstein (She/They) resides near Philadelphia with her family and cats. She is the author of “Through the Lens of Time” (2026), a fiction collection with Thirty West Publishing, and “These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things” (2022), a book of poetry from Really Serious Lit. Shannon is a former Ph.D. candidate in Continental Philosophy and a multi-time Pushcart Prize and BOTN nominee. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Pithead Chapel, Nimrod Journal, Bending Genres, Parentheses Journal, Litro Mag, Philadelphia Stories, and elsewhere. Shannon’s passions include Friedrich Nietzsche, anti-racism, the Seven Summits, the Hamilton Soundtrack, motherhood, and acquiring more cats. Find her at shannonfrostgreenstein.com. Bluesky and Twitter/X: @shannonfrostgre; Insta: @zarathustra_speaks

Christopher Clauss (he/him) is a poet, organizer, ocean explorer, middle school science teacher, and "pretty ok dad" from rural New Hampshire. His work has appeared in more than 60 publications, including New York Quarterly, Plants and Poetry Journal, Sylvia, FreezeRay, and Bureau of Complaint. As a performance poet he has competed at the national level for over a decade, most recently being a member of the winning team at the 2024 Ohio Meatgrinder Poetry Slam. Nominated for 2025 NH Teacher of the Year, his pre-teen science students rave that Mr. Clauss is "Fine, I guess. Whatever."

Christopher's first book of poetry, Photosynthesis & Respiration (Silver Bow Press, 2022) explores the bliss and turmoil of relationships at the intersection of life, love, and science.

Khaleel Mason is a 40-year+ veteran of servicing the world with house music, home and abroad. He performed on the show "Welcome to Our House" for 10 years on 105.3 WDAS FM. An organizer, producer, and DJ, Khaleel serves up some of the grooviest beats in Philadelphia's most welcoming and inclusive spaces.

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