New Directions in Literary Publishing

Please join us for the first part day of "New Directions in Literary Publishing." This event will include a poetry reading from some of the most exciting new voices in contemporary American poetry, and will be followed by an editorial roundtable the next day, April 30.

The inaugural cohort of Advisory Poetry Editors for the “New Directions in Contemporary Literary Publishing” Arts Lab project at the Neubauer Collegium—Kai Ihns, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, Aditi Machado, and Margaret Ross—will read from their new books of poetry, followed by a Q&A and book-signing reception.

*Cosponsored by the Department of English

About the Poets

Aditi Machado is the author of three books of poetry--Material Witness (2024), Emporium (2020), and Some Beheadings (2017)--and several chapbooks.

Imani Elizabeth Jackson is the author of the chapbooks Context for arboreal exchanges (Belladonna*, 2023) and saltsitting (g l o s s, 2020), and, under the moniker mouthfeel, coauthor of Consider the tongue (Paper Machine, 2019) with S*an D. Henry-Smith. (Futurepoem, 2024) is her first full-length collection.

Kai Ihns is a poet and filmmaker based in Chicago. She edits The Year, a chapbook press, and works as an Advisory Poetry Editor at The Paris Review, among other things. She's the author of several pamphlets, a dissertation called Aspect Choreography, and two books of poems, most recently (The Elephants, 2024).

Margaret Ross is the author of two books of poetry, A Timeshare and .

Host or Publisher Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society | University of Chicago