Name: 4/3: Author Event- Claire Taylor & Mitch Nobis Poetry Reading
Start: 2026-04-03T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-03T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Booksweet

$4\/3: Author Event- Claire Taylor & Mitch Nobis Poetry Reading$

Poets Claire Taylor and Mitch Nobis will join us at Booksweet to celebrate the launch of Claire’s poetry collection April and Back Again!
About this Event

Booksweet is thrilled to welcome poets Claire Taylor and Mitch Nobis for an evening of poetry to celebrate the release of Claire's debut poetry collection, April and Back Again! Join us for readings from Claire and Mitch, author Q&A, book signings, and light refreshments!

About The Book \\

Tracking the final year of her thirties from April 2024 through April 2025, Claire Taylor’s debut poetry collection is an intimate portrait of loving and living against a backdrop of existential dread. Deftly oscillating between quotidian scenes of family life and the anxiety of raising children amid the realities of climate change, gun violence, and a democracy on the verge of demise, Taylor leads us through the ups and downs of a year that was history in the making. Simultaneously marveling at the magic of watching her children grow and witnessing the horror of a country going, literally and figuratively, down in flames, April and Back Again follows Taylor from the pleasures of life’s little moments into the growing depths of her own despair. Full of quiet meditations, heartfelt introspection, and delightful hints of humor, April and Back Again is like the first hopeful signs of spring after a long, cold winter.

About The Authors \\

Claire Taylor is a writer for both adult and youth audiences. Her debut poetry collection, April and Back Again is available now from Publishing Genius. Claire is the founding editor of Little Thoughts Press, a literary magazine for young readers. She lives with her family in Baltimore, Maryland, in an old stone house where birds love to roost. You can find her online at clairemtaylor.com.

Mitchell Nobis is a writer and K-12 public school teacher in Metro Detroit where he lives with his family and dog. He is the author of The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees (Match Factory Editions, 2025). He facilitates the Teachers as Poets group for the National Writing Project, co-founded the Not at AWP (NAWP) reading series, serves as a poetry editor at The Weight Journal, and runs a couple of interviews series online. For more, see mitchnobis.com or find him falling apart on a basketball court.