About this Event
Please join us for day two of "New Directions in Literary Publishing." Following the poetry reading on April 29, this event will include an editorial roundtable with the inaugural cohort of Advisory Poetry Editors for the “New Directions in Contemporary Literary Publishing” Arts Lab project: Kai Ihns, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, Aditi Machado, and Margaret Ross.
English department faculty member Srikanth Reddy (Series Editor of the Phoenix Poets book series at the University of Chicago Press, and Poetry Editor of The Paris Review) will join the Advisory Poetry Editors for this roundtable conversation.
*Cosponsored by the Department of English
About the Poets
Aditi Machado is the author of three books of poetry--Material Witness (2024), Emporium (2020), and Some Beheadings (2017)--and several chapbooks.
Imani Elizabeth Jackson is the author of the chapbooks Context for arboreal exchanges (Belladonna*, 2023) and saltsitting (g l o s s, 2020), and, under the moniker mouthfeel, coauthor of Consider the tongue (Paper Machine, 2019) with S*an D. Henry-Smith. (Futurepoem, 2024) is her first full-length collection.
Kai Ihns is a poet and filmmaker based in Chicago. She edits The Year, a chapbook press, and works as an Advisory Poetry Editor at The Paris Review, among other things. She's the author of several pamphlets, a dissertation called Aspect Choreography, and two books of poems, most recently (The Elephants, 2024).
Margaret Ross is the author of two books of poetry, A Timeshare and .
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, 5701 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, United States
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