| Feb |
| 26 |
| 6:30 pm |
After Hours with Lover’s Eye Press Th. 2/26 6:30
Readings by: E. Hughes, Angelica Julia Dávila, Tori Rego, Natalie Staples
Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave, Chicago
Lover’s Eye Press a journal of fixation. Our purpose is to provide a space for artists and writers to communicate the inescapable themes, experiences, and people that arise prominently in their work or linger in the background, winking a secret message.
E. Hughes is the author of Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water, which was longlisted for the 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award (Haymarket Books 2024). They received their MFA in poetry and MA in English Literature from the Litowitz Creative Writing Program at Northwestern University. Currently, Hughes is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Emory University.
Angelica Julia Dávila is the author of the poetry chapbook Bilingual Bitch (Abode Press, 2015). Angelica received her doctorate at the Program for Writers at University of Illinois at Chicago and currently teaches in the English Department at Oakton Community College. Angelica’s work is an exploration of the bilingual Latine identity, autistic self-expression, and mental borderlands.
Tori Rego is a writer from Charleston, South Carolina. She currently lives in Chicago where she hosts the monthly reading series Written on a Napkin. Her poetry chapbook, “Briefly, Gently” was recognized as a finalist for the Chicago Reader’s Best New Poetry Book by a Chicagoan in 2024. This Spring she is buying too much of the rhubarb at the supermarket and no one can stop her.
Natalie Staples holds a B.A. from Kenyon College and an M.F.A. from the University of Oregon. Her work has appeared on National Public Radio and in The American Poetry Review, Literary Matters, Birmingham Poetry Review, Able Muse, Mezzo Cammin, Terrain.org, and SWWIM Every Day and others.
After Hours is a production of Taylor Thornburg and Quimby’s Bookstore
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