April 30: Afton Montgomery, Alexandra Teague, Mary Helen Callier, & Adina Glickstein

Join us on April 30 at Fort Greene for the next installment of the Reading Den series.

The event is free to the public and begins at 7pm. Registration is encouraged.

Afton Montgomery was a finalist for the 2023 Harvard Review Chapbook Prize and has recent work in Electric Lit, The Millions, Pleiades, The Common, Prairie Schooner, Fence, and others. She earned her MFA from University of Idaho, and her writing has been supported by fellowships from Bread Loaf, Lighthouse, and Fine Arts Work Center. Afton works in books and calls the Rocky Mountain West home.

Alexandra Teague is most recently the author of the poetry collection [ominous music intensifying] (Persea 2024) and Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American Memoir (Oregon State UP 2023). She is previously the author of three books of poetry and a novel, as well as co-editor of Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence. A former recipient of fellowships from Civitella Ranieri and the NEA, she is a professor at University of Idaho, where she co-directs the MFA program. 

Mary Helen Callier is currently an instructor and doctoral student in the English and Literary Arts department at the University of Denver, where she serves as one of the poetry editors for the Denver Quarterly. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Bennington Review, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. Her debut collection, When the Horses, was the winner of the 2023 Alice James Editor’s Choice.

Adina Glickstein is a writer and editor interested in the social implications of emerging technology. When she isn’t psychoanalyzing Silicon Valley, she writes about art, labor, new media, wellness, illness, and finance. She is an Editor at Large for Spike Art Magazine, where she previously published “User Error,” a monthly column about internet culture. She regularly publishes cultural criticism in the international art press. 


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