Join me for a reading and conversation with Adam Dalva to launch THE AGE OF LONELINESS! Tickets available here.

Launch party and readings to celebrate publication day for The Age of Loneliness! I’ll be joined by Summer J. Hart, and Buffalo’s own Noah Falck will emcee. Details: Tuesday, August 6, 6pm at Fitz Books, 433 Ellicott Street in Buffalo.

Laura Marris is a writer and translator. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, The Yale Review, The Paris Review Daily, The Common, The TLS, The New York Times, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by fellowships from MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and a grant from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation. Her first solo-authored book, The Age of Loneliness, is forthcoming from Graywolf in August 2024. She teaches creative writing at the University at Buffalo and is a teaching artist at Just Buffalo Literary Center.

Summer J. Hart is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Maine living in the Hudson Valley, New York. She is the author of Boomhouse (2023, The 3rd Thing Press), winner of the 2024 Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize. Her creative work has been supported by NYSCA/NYFA and MacDowell fellowships. Her poetry can be found in Best Small Fictions 2023, Denver Quarterly, Heavy Feather Review, The Massachusetts Review, Northern New England Review, Waxwing, and elsewhere. Summer is an enrolled member of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation. 

Noah Falck is a poet and culture worker. He is the author of the poetry collections Exclusions (Finalist for the 2020 Believer Book Award) and Snowmen Losing Weight as well as several chapbook collections and the collaboration, Prerecorded Weather (Winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize). In 2013, he founded the Silo City Reading Series, a multimedia poetry event series inside a 120-foot high, 100-year-old abandoned grain elevator. He is the Literary Director at Just Buffalo.

In this virtual workshop we will explore the wildness of figurative language and how it can create new poetic connections through humor, subversion, and other imaginative leaps. Each participant will leave the workshop with the start of a poem (or lyric essay) that channels the power of poetic comparison. No previous experience is necessary! Get tickets here.