Join us for an evening with poets Paula Cisewski, Katy Chrisler, and Stephanie Goehring (pictured below, left to right).

Paula Cisewski’s second poetry collection, Ghost Fargo, was selected by Franz Wright for the Nightboat Poetry Prize. She is also the author of Upon Arrival (Black Ocean), of the chapbooks How Birds Work and Two Museums, and the co-author, with Mathias Svalina, of Or Else What Asked the Flame. Paula has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Jerome Foundation, and the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts. Her work appears regularly in literary magazines such as Conduit, A Handsome Journal, failbetter, Revolver, and REVOLUTIONesque. A poem was recently included in Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics. She teaches, both academically and privately, and curates artful literary events in the Twin Cities.

Katy Chrisler recently received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a participant in the Land Arts of the American West traveling residency program. Previous poems of hers have appeared in Tin House, Poor Claudia, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Octopus Magazine. She currently works at The Contemporary Austin as the Publications Coordinator and lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, Joaquin and son, Ruby Rio.

Stephanie Goehring is co-author, with Jeff Griffin, of the chapbook I Miss You Very Much (Slim Princess Holdings) and author of the chapbook This Room Has a Ghost (dancing girl press). A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she lives in Austin, Texas.