Exhibit B - February '24

We're back home from AWP and once again bringing the show to our favorite bookstore in the city, Pilsen Community Books! On Thursday, Feb. 29th, join us as we bring together another incredible lineup featuring Charif Shanahan, Helene Achanzar, S. Yarberry, and Juan Martinez!

MEET THE ARTISTS:

Helene Achanzar is a poet and editor whose writing has appeared in Sixth Finch, Quarterly West, Georgia Review, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2022 New England Review Award for Emerging Writers, her work has been supported by Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Mastheads. She is a senior editor for Poetry Northwest, Midwest Regional Chair for Kundiman, and Director of Programs at the Chicago Poetry Center.

Charif Shanahan is the author of two collections of poetry: Trace Evidence: poems (Tin House, 2023), which is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and was longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry; and Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry/SIU Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University.

Shanahan’s poems appear widely, in such journals as The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and PBS NewsHour. His work has been anthologized in American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time (Graywolf Press, 2018), Furious Flower’s Seeding the Future of African American Poetry (Northwestern, 2019), and African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Library of America, 2020).

Born in the Bronx to an Irish-American father and a Moroccan mother, he holds an AB in Comparative Literature from Princeton University; an AM in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College; and an MFA in Poetry from New York University. Former Programs Director of the Poetry Society of America, he has taught poetry at California College of the Arts (CCA), the Collegio di Milano (Italy), and Stanford University.

S. Yarberry is a trans poet and writer. Their poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in AGNI, Guernica, Tin House, Indiana Review, jubilat, The Boiler, miscellaneous zines, among others. They currently run the little magazine Tyger Quarterly. S. has their MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis and is now a PhD candidate in literature at Northwestern University where they study William Blake. They have a chapbook called To Seem the Stranger published by Bottlecap Press and their first full-length book of poems, A Boy in the City, is out now from Deep Vellum.

Juan Martinez is writer and an associate professor of English at Northwestern University and the author of the horror novel Extended Stay (University of Arizona Press / Camino del Sol, 2023) and of the story collection Best Worst American (Small Beer Press, 2017). Martinez is also a core faculty member for StoryStudio and the fiction editor for Jackleg Press. He lives with his family near Chicago.