Join us for an evening of poetry with three fantastic poets! Come by to hear their work and purchase copies of their books to have signed by the poets, including Topaz Winters’ five year anniversary version of Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing!

Topaz Winters is the Singaporean-American author of So, Stranger (Button Poetry 2022), Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing (Button Poetry 2019 & 2024), & poems for the sound of the sky before thunder (Math Paper Press 2017). She serves as editor-in-chief of Half Mystic Press, an independent, international, & interdisciplinary publishing project, & as co-editor of Kopi Break, a journal of new Singapore poetry. Her work has been published by Waxwing, The Drift, & Poets.org, profiled in Vogue, The Straits Times, & The Business Times, & performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre for Fiction, & the Singapore Writers Festival. She lives between New York & Singapore.

Angel Phipps (they/them) is a queer, trans, Latine poet currently living in Chicago. Their work explores the obligation of blood, the violent tenderness of love, and reading the Bible in a very gay way. Their chapbook, crown noble, was published with Button Poetry in 2020.

Adrienne Novy is an artist from the suburbs of Chicago (Potawatomi Land). A 2020 graduate from Hamline University’s Creative Writing program, Adrienne’s work has been nominated for Bettering American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections: Crowd Surfing With God (Half Mystic Press, 2018) and Erev Gildene: The Pop-Rock Survival Guide for the Modern Jewish Millennial (Game Over Books, 2022). Adrienne can be found on social media at @adriennenovy. She works in a library and has a cat named Laurie.