Poetry Reading: Sam Wright Fairbanks, Rena Medow, CJ Scruton, and Léon Pradeau *IN PERSON*
Poetry Reading featuring Sam Wright Fairbanks, author of Manhole for the New Millennium (Discount Guillotine, 2025), Rena Medow, CJ Scruton, and Léon Pradeau, author of This is it (Antiphony, 2025).
In person at Woodland Pattern
Sam Wright Fairbanks was born in a bog and raised on the internet. They write poetry in Brooklyn. Their first full-length book of poems, Manhole for the New Millennium, will be released on May 1 by Discount Guillotine.
Rena Medow’s poems, essays, articles and illustrations can be found in a variety of places, including VA Press, Vancouver Sun, VICE, and LunaLuna Magazine, among others. She loves painting, process ontology, and phytochemistry.
CJ Scruton is a trans writer from the South who is currently living on the Great Lakes. Their work has previously appeared in New South, The Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, and other journals. They have been nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and a Pushcart Prize, and they have been a finalist for book prizes from YesYes Books, Willow Springs Books, and Frontier Poetry.
Léon Pradeau is a poet and translator based in Chicago. His recent publications include This is it (Antiphony, 2025) and 'vaisseau instantané/instant shipping' (Les murmurations, 2024). He is the founding editor of Transat', a journal of poetry and poetics in French and English.
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