Ghost City Press Summer Series at Pilsen Community Books

Mon Aug 18 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm UTC-05:00

Pilsen Community Books | Chicago

Elizabeth Joy Levinson
Publisher/HostElizabeth Joy Levinson
Ghost City Press Summer Series at Pilsen Community Books
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Join Chicago authors celebrating their micro chapbooks released this summer as part the Ghost City Press Summer Series!
About this Event

For ten years, Ghost City Press has been releasing a series of digital micro-chapbooks throughout the summer. Come meet and hear from several of this year’s writers, as we gather in Chicago to share and celebrate our work with our community.

About the authors:

Noah Berlatsky (he/him) is a freelance writer in Chicago. His full-length collections are Not Akhmatova (Ben Yehuda Press, 2024), Gnarly Thumbs (Anxiety Press, 2025), Meaning Is Embarrassing (Ranger, 2025) and Brevity (Nun Prophet, 2025). He has chapbooks published and/or forthcoming with the Origami Poems Project, above/ground, and LJMcD Communications.

Griffin Rockwell is a queer poet whose work has appeared in AGNI, Cotton Xenomorph, Palette Poetry, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere; xe has two chapbooks and two microchapbooks (one in the 2020 Ghost City Press Summer Series). Griffin enjoys writing about gender, science, space, and unusual connections. Find their website and socials at https://linktr.ee/griffinrockwell.

Elena Rielinger Ferguson is a poet living in Idaho. Her work has appeared in perhappened mag, streetcake mag, and Crêpe and Penn. You can find her debut microchapbook, Cast Not Your Pearls, in Ghost City Press’s 2021 Summer Series. She has been a Pushcart and Best New Poets nominee. You can follow her on her website elenarielinger.wordpress.com, or Instagram @elenarielinger.

Sara Matson (she/her) is a poet in Chicago and host of the seasonal online reading series Words // Friends. Special Features: DVD Poems is available from Alien Buddha Press.

Elizabeth Joy Levinson is a high school biology teacher in Chicago. Her work has appeared in Whale Road Review, SWWIM, One Art, The Shore, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. She is the author of a full-length collection, Uncomfortable Ecologies, available from Unsolicited Press, as well as two chapbooks, Running Aground (Finishing Line Press) & As Wild Animals (Dancing Girl Press).


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Pilsen Community Books, 1102 West 18th Street, Chicago, United States

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