Join us on a Friday night for a memorable reading and signing with local authors. To keep the authors, our staff, and you safe, COVID restrictions apply: Seating is limited to 35 people. First come, first served. Proof of vaccination & ID is requiredMasks required when not eating or drinking. Shanekia McIntosh is a poet and performer. Her interdisciplinary work, inspired by the black diaspora, aims to disrupt and confront historical colonial erasure. Her work has been featured in the New Museum, Second Ward Foundation, Charim Galerie, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, Hudson Hall, NY Live Arts, ICA at VCU, Basilica Hudson and more,with recent work being published in Chronogram, Apogee Journal and The TENTH Magazine. She will be reading from her new book, Spriral as Ritual (Topos Press 2021). Aristilde Kirby is a being constellation of given human category: a poet, artist, thinker & more born in the Bronx, NY. She has been featured in Artforum & as a part of Illiberal Arts, an exhibition & publication at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. She has published chapbooks with Belladonna, Black Warrior Review, & Best American Experimental Writing 2020. You can call her Aris, like Paris without the P. She will be reading from her new book, Daisy & Catherine (Auric Press, 2022).