Events
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
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.”