Sixty on Stage: Poetry & Prose

Join Sixty Inches from Center on the evening of June 3, 2026 at Elastic Arts to hear from poets and creative writers published by Sixty Lit this past year, including Vera Blossom, e'mon lauren, Diego Báez, Temperance Aghamohammadi, and Riley Yaxley.

About the featured poets:

• Vera Blossom is a professional pervert, an incessant gossip and the author of How To Fuck Like a Girl from Dopamine press. She is a proud Filipina, a trans femme monster, and is happy to call Chicago her home.
• e'mon lauren is Chicago’s first Youth Poet Laureate and the author of Commando(Haymarket Books, 2017). her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Sixty Inches from Center, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic(Haymarket Books, 2019), and elsewhere. she currently serves as Director of Artistic Programming at the #LetUsBreathe Collective in Chicago.
• Temperance Aghamohammadi is an Acolyte of the Exquisite. A trans Iranian-American poet, medium, and critic, she is the author of BATTALION SHAPED GIRL and Behnt, selected by Dorothea Lasky as the winner of The New Delta Review Chapbook Prize. Her work appears in The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, New England Review, Fairy Tale Review, Worms Magazine, and elsewhere. She is an associate editor at RHINO Poetry and has received support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Hailing from the Northeast, she currently haunts the Midwest.
• Diego Báez is a poet, educator, and abolitionist. He is the author of Yaguareté White (Univ. Arizona), named Best New Poetry Collection by the Chicago Reader (2024). He lives in Rogers Park and co-ordinates Blue Jay Poetry Cafe, a summer reading series at Loyola Beach.
• Riley Yaxley is most often a dinner party host, a fishkeeper, a beach rat, a flâneuse, a glutton, a flirt, a dancer, a delinquent daughter who forgets to call her mom; and she is also a writer and editor.

Check out their work on Sixty's website:

Accessibility Considerations:

Masks are required for this event and will be provided. Elastic Arts is located on the second-floor without elevator access. There will be a live captioner and a livestream will be available through Elastic Arts’ website:

Photographer will be documenting the event and capturing attendees. If you wish to not be photographed please let host know when you arrive to the event.

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