Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Our second night of readings featured four visionary collections of 2024 and 2025 that reinvent a range of sites from Riverside, California to the light under a disco ball. In speculative place-making of immigrant, Black, and queer utopias (imagined and real), these poets write better worlds into our own.
Ching-In Chen read from Shiny City (Airlie Press, 2025). jason b. crawford read from YEET! (Omnidawn, 2025). charles theonia read from Gay Heaven Is a Dance Floor but I Can’t Relax (Archway Editions, 2024). Nora Treatbaby read from Our Air (Nightboat Books, 2024).
Our second night of readings featured four visionary collections of 2024 and 2025 that reinvent a range of sites from Riverside, California to the light under a disco ball. In speculative place-making of immigrant, Black, and queer utopias (imagined and real), these poets write better worlds into our own.
Ching-In Chen read from Shiny City (Airlie Press, 2025). jason b. crawford read from YEET! (Omnidawn, 2025). charles theonia read from Gay Heaven Is a Dance Floor but I Can’t Relax (Archway Editions, 2024). Nora Treatbaby read from Our Air (Nightboat Books, 2024).
