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RYAN ECKES & R/B MERTZ: A COMMON SENSE READING

Sat, Feb 08

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RYAN ECKES & R/B MERTZ: A COMMON SENSE READING
RYAN ECKES & R/B MERTZ: A COMMON SENSE READING

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Feb 08, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CST

Virtual Reading

About The Event

Ryan Eckes is a poet from Philadelphia. His new book, Wrong Heaven Again, is available from Birds, LLC. He is also the author of General Motors, Valu-Plus, Old News, and several chapbooks. Recent poems have appeared in Prolit, Wax Nine Journal, and Windfall Room. Eckes has worked as an adjunct professor at numerous institutions and as a labor organizer in education. 

 

R/B Mertz (they/them) is a trans/non-binary butch poet and artist. Mertz wrote the memoir Burning Butch (Unnamed Press, 2022) about being raised inside the Bush-era right-wing Catholic fundamentalism that now occupies two seats on the supreme court. Burning Butch was a finalist for Memoir Magazine's Best Memoir Grand Prize. They also wrote the essay, “How Whiteness Kills God & Sprinkles Crack on the Body" (Mistress Syndrome). Their first book of poems, CU T, will be released May 15, 2024 by Threadsuns Press.  Recent work was published in Guernica Magazine,…

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