A full throated day of poetry & prose readings from minds on the go.
Some of What You Seek May Be Found Here
10:00 am
Presented by Normals

Madeline ffitch
Madeline ffitch cofounded the punk theater company Missoula Oblongata and is part of the direct-action collective Appalachia Resist! Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, Granta, Tin House, Guernica, and elsewhere. She is the author of the story collection Valparaiso, Round the Horn and the novel Stay and Fight, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award. Her new novel Avalon, Rise is coming out this month on FSG.

Joel Dailey
From high atop FSI (Fell Swoop International) Headquarters in New Orleans, Joel Dailey edits and publishes SWOOPCARDS, an ongoing series of letterpress postcards & broadsides. His latest book is NEW DETAILS EMERGE (New Books, 2023). His previous books all from Lavender Ink include: LOWER 48, MY PSYCHIC DOGS MY LIFE & INDUSTRIAL LOOP.

Buck Downs
Through postcards, slaptags, voicemails and other ephemera, Buck Downs creates a body of poetry as expansive and intimate as life and death. Recent book projects include NICE NOSE (Buck Downs Dot Com) and Mystical Hobby of Christ: The Poetry of Chris Toll (lack mountain/ZDWP).

Thea Brown
Thea Brown is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Loner Forensics (Northwestern University Press 2023). Recent poems can be found in Bennington Review, Kenyon Review, Coma, Sixth Finch, the tiny, Action, Spectacle, and elsewhere. She lives in Baltimore and teaches creative writing at the George Washington University.




