Jordan Stempleman
RYAN ECKES & R/B MERTZ: A COMMON SENSE READING
Sat, Feb 08
|Virtual Reading


Time & Location
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,…