Reading: Susan (Sue) Landers, Chessy Normile and Jordan Dunn

Join us for a reading featuring Susan (Sue) Landers, author of What to Carry Into the Future (Roof Books, 2025), Chessy Normile is author of Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party (2020 APR/Honickman First Book Prize), and Jordan Dunn, author of Notation (Thirdhand Books).

Susan (Sue) Landers is a poet and pedestrian. She is the author of four poetry collections. Her latest, What to Carry Into the Future (Roof Books, 2025), emerged from riding every New York City subway from end to end. Set within New York City’s subways, streets, and waterways, the collection charts the continuous aftermath of catastrophe alongside the city’s many pleasures. Her poems have appeared in Poem-A-Day, the Brooklyn Rail, The Offing, and elsewhere. She is a former executive director of Lambda Literary and lives in Brooklyn. More at suelanders.com.

Chessy Normile is author of Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party (2020 APR/Honickman First Book Prize), named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2020 in The New York Times and included in the 16th Annual Look at Debut Poets in Poets & Writers Magazine. Ho ho ho. Her poems have appeared in The Nation, The American Poetry Review, jubilat, Poets.org, Narrative, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Proceedings of the Ordinary Annual General Meeting, was published by After Hours Editions in 2024. She received a BA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in poetry with a secondary concentration in playwriting from The Michener Center for Writers at UT–Austin, where she was awarded an Academy of American Poets University Prize. Recipient of the 2022-23 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at UW–Madison, Chessy currently lives in Madison, WI, where she teaches poetry classes and edits a zine series called Girl Blood Info.

Jordan Dunn is the author of Notation (Thirdhand Books), Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (Partly Press), as well as various chapbooks and ephemeral prints including Common Names, Reactor Woods, and A Walk at Doolittle State Preserve. He lives with his family in Madison, WI, where he edits and publishes Oxeye Press.

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