Poets Adam Fell and Matthew Guenette will read from their work. Adam Fell, a graduate of The Iowa Writers' Workshop, will read from his debut collection, I Am Not a Pioneer, and Matthew Guenette will read from his second collection American Busboy. Erika Meitner wrote of I Am Not a Pioneer, "Adam Fell is a break-the-mold original, poet of the strip mall and the lakeshore, bard of Pabst and gas stations and gutted cigarette machines. His brave and quirky poems hum and crackle off the page; they wrangle with the violence in contemporary American society without wavering."
 
Talking about Matthew Guenette's new book, Lee Ann Roripaugh says "In American Busboy, a wry anti-mythology, the anti-hero busboy in an anonymous Clam Shack! tangles with the monotonous delirium of work, the indignities and poor pay of unskilled labor, the capricious deus ex machina of mean-spirited middle management, the zombified consumption of summer tourists, while jostling for the goddess-like attentions of waitresses and hostesses-all battered up in sizzlingly crisp wit and language, and deep-fried in a shiny glaze of surrealism."  Guenette's first book was Sudden Anthem, and his poems have appeared in the Barn Owl Review, Anti-, the New Orleans Review, Quarterly West, and the National Poetry Review. He has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.