A night of readings by poets working uncannily in the genres of lyric, documentary, critical inquiry, and hysterical ranting.About this Event
Join Ulises for "Worked Shoot", a series of readings by Jo Barchi, Ted Dodson, Kristen Gallagher, Josef Kaplan, Matt Longabucco, and Caroline Rayner.
About the Poets:
Jo Barchi is a writer and editor living in Chicago. They are an Editor at Joyland Editions, and their writing has been published in The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. Their chapbook Natural Wine was published by Spiral Editions in 2025.
Ted Dodson is the author of An Orange (Pioneer Works / Wonder, 2021) and co-translator of Two Poems by Jaime Saenz (Action Books, 2026). He is a contributing editor for BOMB and Broadcast, an editor-at-large for Futurepoem, and a former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter.
Kristen Gallagher has a recent chapbook out from Spiral Editions called New American Summer. She has published four other books: 85% True / minor ecologies (2017), Grand Central (2016), Florida (2014), and We Are Here (2011). Her ten film collaboration with Tara Merenda Nelson received a NYSCA Artists Grant in 2022. You can find some of her work online at The Tiny, Noir Sauna, Air/Light, Tagvverk, Social Text, and The Brooklyn Rail.
Josef Kaplan is the author most recently of Loser, out from Make Now Books. His other books include Poem Without Suffering (Wonder, 2015), All Nightmare: Introductions, 2011-2012 (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014), K*ll List (Cars Are Real, 2013), and Democracy Is Not for the People (Truck Books, 2012). He lives in Philadelphia.
Matt Longabucco is the author of poetry collections The Hummingbird (Nightboat, 2026) and Heroic Dose (2022), and of M/W: An essay on Jean Eustache’s La maman et la putain (2021). He teaches writing, innovative pedagogy, and critical theory at New York University’s Liberal Studies Program, and at Bard College’s Institute for Writing & Thinking.
Caroline Rayner grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and currently lives and works in western Massachusetts. She wrote THE MOAN WILDS (Shabby Doll House, 2023) and, with Miri Karraker, DAWN NOON DUSK MIDNIGHT (Spiral Editions, 2025). She hosts a free form radio show called Spirit Ditch.
Event venue
Ulises, 1525 N American St., Philadelphia, United States
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