Skye Jackson Book Launch

When:
June 2, 2019 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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Cost:
Free

Join us for a reading with Skye Jackson, Benjamin Aleshire, and Josh Denslow. We’ll be celebrating the release of Skye’s new chapbook, A Faster Grave (Antenna Press).

Skye Jackson was born in New Orleans. She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop where she serves as an associate poetry editor of Bayou Magazine. She is the author of the prizewinning chapbook, A Faster Grave, published by Antenna.

Benjamin Aleshire travels the world as a poet-for-hire, composing poems for strangers on a manual typewriter. His work has been featured recently in The Times UK, Iowa Review, Boston Review, and on television in the US, China, and Spain. An excerpt of his novel, ‘Poet for Hire: Kismet of a 21st Century Troubadour’ is forthcoming in LitHub. Ben was a Breadloaf waiter in 2016, and serves as assistant poetry editor for the Green Mountains Review. He lives in New Orleans.

Josh Denslow’s debut collection Not Everyone Is Special (7.13 Books) is a real book you can hold in your hands! In addition to constructing elaborate Lego sets with his three boys, he plays the drums in the band Borrisokane and edits at SmokeLong Quarterly.

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