AN AUDIO / POETRY READING AND LISTENING EVENT - Suggested $5 donation

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Featuring: Matthew Klane Warren C. Longmire Elizander Espenschied Farnoosh Fathi

Matthew Klane lives and writes in Albany, NY. His books of poetry include Of the Day (Publication Studio 2025), Hist (w/ James Belflower, Calamari 2022), Canyons (w/ James Belflower, Flimb Press 2016), Che (Stockport Flats 2013), and B (Stockport Flats 2008). An e-book My is online at FENCE. In 2025, he released his first record, Too Little Too Late, and his second record, Sunshine Committee, is forthcoming in March 2026, both available on your various streaming platforms. The founder and co-editor of Flim Forum Press, Matthew currently co-curates the poetry and performance series Salon Salvage.

Warren C. Longmire is a poet, performer, and technologist from North Philadelphia. His work has appeared in journals including Action, Spectacle, The Cleveland Review of Books, and The American Poetry Review. Warren was featured in The Best American Poetry 2021 (selected by Tracy K. Smith). His latest book, Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop], was published by Bunny Presse in 2022. Warren is the co-creator of the _mixlit performance series and House Poet, a spoken word dance party, in Philadelphia.

Elizander Espenschied is a poet and musician from Cleveland, Ohio who studied English & American Literature at NYU.  He is currently studying poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and providing vocals for Savage Little Suckers, but it also hosts radio shows, shoots 35mm film, and enjoys creating lists in threes.

Farnoosh Fathi is the author of the poetry collections Great Guns (Canarium 2013) and Granny Cloud (NYRB Poets 2024), editor of Joan Murray: Drafts, Fragments, and Poems (NYRB Poets 2018), and founder of the Young Artists Language and Devotion Alliance (YALDA). She lives and teaches in New York. Her research interests include poetry writing and contemplative education.