Events

Tuesday, June 17, 2025:
6:30 pm CST

Virtual Launch Party for RHINO 2025

Free Pre-Registration Required HERE

Featuring Anuel Rodriguez, Nida Sophasarun, Julie Wade, Natalie Tombasco, Daniella Navarro, Christy Lee Barnes, & Jaia Hamid Bashir

Monday, July 21, 2025:

Featured Reader: Virginia Bell

6-7 pm CST

Poetry @ The Green

320 S. Canal St.

Chicago, IL 60606

Saturday, August 9, 2025: 4-6 pm CST
Featured Reader: Virginia Bell
Highland Park Poetry Series
The Wayfarer Theater
1850 Second St.
Highland Park, IL 60035

Monday, August 11, 2025:

Featured Reader: Virginia Bell

Traveling Molly’s Online Reading Series

LINK TBA

Saturday, August 23rd, 2025:

3 pm CST

Fountain Square LitFest

1601 Sherman Ave.

Evanston, IL 60201

RHINO Poetry Reading:

Featuring Diya Abbas, Nile Lansana, Timothy Dvid Rey, and Maja & Steven Teref

Sunday, August 31st, 2025: 7 pm CST
Launch Reading for The Overturning Anthology (Erratics Books, an Imprint of Hypertext, 2025)
Editors: Ignatius Valentine Aloysius, Virginia Bell, and Christine Maul Rice
Featured Readers: TBA
Roscoe Books
2142 W Roscoe St.
Chicago, IL 60618

 

Still from Birute Sodeikaite’s short film “In Perpetuum.”

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