In-Person: BUTT STUFF FLOWER BUSH by Sam Herschel Wein

Please join us for an in-person event to celebrate the poetry chapbook BUTT STUFF FLOWER BUSH by Sam Herschel Wein! For this event, Wein will read with Kemi Alabi and Mishka Ligot.

Please note: Pre-registration for this event is required. By pre-registering, you are verifying that you are fully vaccinated and will wear a mask throughout the entirety of the event.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Wein’s Butt Stuff Flower Bush is a joyous, vulnerable, fantastically gay chapbook of poems that dance through sex, relationships, trauma, healing, and hunger. It has its share of tears, and there’s joy too. Eat, want, sing, survive, flirt.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sam Herschel Wein (he/they) is a lollygagging plum of a poet who specializes in perpetual frolicking. They have an MFA from the University of Tennessee and were the recipient of a 2022 Pushcart Prize. They have published 3 chapbooks, most recently "Butt Stuff Flower Bush" from Porkbelly Press, and are the co-founder and editor of Underblong Journal. They have recent work in American Poetry Review, The Cincinnati Review, and Gulf Coast, among others.

Accessibility: This event will be at the bookstore, which is a wheelchair accessible space on the ground floor. We have an ADA bathroom, adjustable lighting, and free parking in the lot behind the store. Face masks are required. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. For ASL Interpretation, reserved seating, or other access requests, please email [email protected].

Event Venue

Women & Children First, 5233 North Clark Street, Chicago, United States