Poets Ross Gay and Chris Mattingly will read from their work. Ross Gay is the author of two collections of poems, Bringing the Shovel Down and Against Which. He holds a Ph.D in American Literature from Temple University, and is a faculty member at New England College’s Low-Residency MFA program. Gay is a poet of conscience, who echoes Tomas Transtromer’s “We do not surrender. But want peace.” —Jean Valentine

Chris Mattingly is the author of the chapbooks Ad Hoc and A Light for Your Beacon (both from Q Avenue Press). His poems have most recently appeared in Louisville Review, Still, Lumberyard, and Forklift, Ohio. Chris is a graduate of Spalding University’s MFA in Writing Program and lives in Louisville, Kentucky.