Poets in Print: Samyak Shertok and Katy Didden

Schedule

Sat Mar 28 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

326 W Kalamazoo Ave, Ste. 103A, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Michigan 49007 | Kalamazoo, MI

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Join us for our 2025/26 season of our Poets in Print Reading Series! There will be four readings, three in person in the KBAC gallery and one online through zoom.
Our March reading will be held in person and feature Katy Didden and Samyak Shertok. Limited edition broadsides printed at the KBAC will be available for sale during the reading.
This Reading is Sponsored by the @Kalamazoo Poetry Festival
Samyak Shertok’s debut collection, No Rhododendron, was selected by Kimiko Hahn for the 2024 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press (Pitt Poetry Series) in 2025. His poems appear in The Cincinnati Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, POETRY, Shenandoah, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. His honors include the Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Poetry, the Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, and the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Originally from Nepal, he was the inaugural Hughes Fellow in Poetry at Southern Methodist University and teaches creative writing at Hendrix College. For more, please visit samyakshertok.com.
Katy Didden is the author of The Glacier’s Wake (Pleiades Press, 2013) and Ore Choir: The Lava on Iceland (Tupelo Press, 2022). Her poems and essays appear in journals such as Poetry Northwest, Ecotone, 32 Poems, Diagram, The Sewanee Review, and The Kenyon Review, and she is one of the co-creators of Almanac for the Beyond (Tropic Editions, 2019). She is an associate professor at Ball State University where she directs the Creative Writing Program and teaches poetry workshops and Creative Writing and the Environment.
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