Spring Equinox Poetry Reading

Join P&T Knitwear to celebrate the Spring Equinox! We are thrilled to celebrate the night being equal to the day, welcoming in the spring season after a long cold winter, with a special poetry reading in collaberation with , featuring Teresa Dzieglewicz, Meghann Plunkett, and Brenda Shaughnessy.

Tickets and books are available both on eventbrite and at the door. Doors open at 6:30 with the reading starting around 7:00pm.

ABOUT THE POETS:
Teresa Dzieglewicz is a Pushcart Prize-winning poet, educator, and lover of rivers and prairies. She is a fellow with Black Earth Institute, a Poet-in-Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center, and part of the founding team of Mni Wichoni Nakicizin Wounspe (Defenders of the Water School). With Natasha Mijares, she organizes "Watershed: Ways of Seeing the Chicago River". Her first book of poetry, Something Small of How to See a River was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press). Her first children's book, Belonging, co-written with Kimimila Locke, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books. She has won a Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, the Gingko Prize, the Auburn Witness Prize, and the Palette Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Community of Writers at Tahoe, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and Brooklyn Poets. Teresa lives with her family in Chicago, on Potawatomi land.

Meghann Plunkett writes television (Station 19, Rebel) and various development projects including adapting the novel “First Lie Wins” for the screen. She also served as a Poetry Reader for The New Yorker from 2018-2020. She is the recipient of the 2017 Missouri Review’s Editors’ Prize as well as the 2017 Third Coast Poetry Prize. She was a finalist for Narrative Magazine’s 30 Below Contest, The North American Review’s Hearst Poetry Prize and Nimrod‘s Pablo Neruda Prize. She has been recognized by the Academy of American Poets in both 2016 and 2017. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Pleiades, Rattle, Washington Square Review and Poets.org, among others. Her chapbook What We Did to Her Made the Water Rise won the Fall 2023 Black River Chapbook Competition and debuted in February 2025.

Brenda Shaughnessy is the Okinawan-Irish American author of seven poetry collections, including Tanya (Knopf 2023, Bloodaxe 2024, UK); Liquid Flesh: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe 2022, UK); The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019), a New York Times Notable Book; and Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon 2012), finalist for the Griffin International Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Prize. Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon 2008) received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and was a finalist for the NBCC award. She has received the Howard Foundation Fellowship of Brown University, the Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission Fellowship, a 2013 fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and other honors. Currently, Shaughnessy is co-creating the production of Sensorium Ex, an opera for which she wrote the libretto, which premiered in 2025. She lives in West Orange, New Jersey.

• This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating.
• Doors open at 6:30pm, with the talk starting around 7:00pm.
• Books will be available for purchase at the event.
• Cost of a book bundle ticket reflects the total cost of the feature event book (MSRP plus tax). Each book bundle ticket guarantees ticket holders one (1) copy of the feature event book.
• The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&T Knitwear.
• If you would like a signed copy and cannot attend the event, we're happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!

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