Yellow Chair Poetry returns this September, featuring … prose! And poetry. There’s still poetry.
Our living room reading series welcomes the multi-genre Grand Rapids writing duo Todd Kaneko and Caitlin Horrocks to read from their work—and of course, to enjoy snacks.
We’ll gather at Jon & Hannah’s at 7 p.m. for drinks, snacks, and poetry. Learn more about the writers below. Please RSVP using the form at the bottom of this post, and we will get you location information and directions as needed.
W. Todd Kaneko is the author of This is How the Bone Sings and The Dead Wrestler Elegies, Championship Edition, and is co-author of Poetry: A Writers’ Guide and Anthology and Slash / Slash, winner of the 2020 Diode Editions Chapbook Contest. His poems, essays, and stories can be seen in Poetry, Alaskan Quarterly Review, Los Angeles Review, The Normal School, Poet Lore, The Rumpus, Best Small Fictions, and many other places. Originally from Seattle, he currently teaches in the Writing Department at Grand Valley State University and lives with his family in Grand Rapids.
Caitlin Horrocks is the author of the story collections Life Among the Terranauts and This Is Not Your City, both New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice selections. The Wall Street Journal named her novel The Vexations one of the Ten Best Books of 2019. Her stories and essays appear in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. She teaches at Grand Valley State University and lives in Grand Rapids with her family.
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