Serena Solin - "A Barer Sky" - Rob Macaisa Colgate, Lisa Low, and Leah Flax Barber
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Serena Solin will discuss her new book "A Barer Sky" with fellow poets Rob Macasia Colgate, Lisa Low, and Leah Flax Barber.
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About the book: Serena Solin’s first full-length collection pulls from the pre-individual realm of birth and infancy, the collectivity into which we grow, and the narrow pathway in between.
Drawing on sources from Dostoyevsky to Boyz n the Hood, Emerson to Olson, the Puritans to Honda Civics, Solin’s poems and essays ask what it means to write in a world of lush and violent textuality. Elision, evasion, and allusion resolve in form and familiarity, then come undone. Always on the wrong side of the tracks, Solin moves through perspectives beyond the human, from the inanimate to the entomological, the etymological to the world-historical. When tragedy strikes, the world shatters into clarity.
About the authors: Serena Solin lives in Queens, NY. Previous chapbooks include "Solar Inverter" (Bottlecap) and "The Stay Behind" (Beautiful Days Press). Solin’s poems and essays have appeared in CutBank, Denver Quarterly, Dialogist, FENCE, Heavy Feather, Hobart Pulp, Little Mirror, Sixth Finch, Tyger Quarterly, Works & Days, and elsewhere. She is a member of the Ugly Duckling Presse editorial collective and a PhD candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is the author of the poetry collection HARDLY CREATURES (Tin House, 2025), winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award and longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the verse drama MY LOVE IS WATER (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025). A 2026 Creative Capital, 2025 NEA, and 2024 Ruth Lilly fellow, he serves as the managing poetry editor at Foglifter and lives in Chicago.
Lisa Low is the author of "Replica" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2026) and the chapbook "Crown for the Girl Inside" (YesYes Books, 2023). She is the recipient of a 2023 Pushcart Prize and the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize, and her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Ecotone, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Maryland, she lives in Chicago.
Leah Flax Barber is a writer from Chicago. She is the author of "The Mirror of Simple Souls" (Winter Editions, 2025). Recent writing has appeared in Harper’s, Cleveland Review of Books, and Conjunctions.
At the Co-op.
RSVP HERE!
About the book: Serena Solin’s first full-length collection pulls from the pre-individual realm of birth and infancy, the collectivity into which we grow, and the narrow pathway in between.
Drawing on sources from Dostoyevsky to Boyz n the Hood, Emerson to Olson, the Puritans to Honda Civics, Solin’s poems and essays ask what it means to write in a world of lush and violent textuality. Elision, evasion, and allusion resolve in form and familiarity, then come undone. Always on the wrong side of the tracks, Solin moves through perspectives beyond the human, from the inanimate to the entomological, the etymological to the world-historical. When tragedy strikes, the world shatters into clarity.
About the authors: Serena Solin lives in Queens, NY. Previous chapbooks include "Solar Inverter" (Bottlecap) and "The Stay Behind" (Beautiful Days Press). Solin’s poems and essays have appeared in CutBank, Denver Quarterly, Dialogist, FENCE, Heavy Feather, Hobart Pulp, Little Mirror, Sixth Finch, Tyger Quarterly, Works & Days, and elsewhere. She is a member of the Ugly Duckling Presse editorial collective and a PhD candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is the author of the poetry collection HARDLY CREATURES (Tin House, 2025), winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award and longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the verse drama MY LOVE IS WATER (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025). A 2026 Creative Capital, 2025 NEA, and 2024 Ruth Lilly fellow, he serves as the managing poetry editor at Foglifter and lives in Chicago.
Lisa Low is the author of "Replica" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2026) and the chapbook "Crown for the Girl Inside" (YesYes Books, 2023). She is the recipient of a 2023 Pushcart Prize and the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize, and her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Ecotone, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Maryland, she lives in Chicago.
Leah Flax Barber is a writer from Chicago. She is the author of "The Mirror of Simple Souls" (Winter Editions, 2025). Recent writing has appeared in Harper’s, Cleveland Review of Books, and Conjunctions.
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