The Chicago Review presents a poetry reading with:

Cynthia Cruz is the author of ten poetry collections, including Hotel Oblivion, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award. She has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She recently completed a PhD in philosophy at the European Graduate School, where she wrote her dissertation on Hegel and madness. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame.

Sara Nicholson is the author of three books of poetry, most recently April, all from the Song Cave. A chapbook of new poems, Honesty, was published by Distance No Object in 2026. She teaches in the MFA program at Boise State University.

Martin Corless-Smith was born in Worcestershire. His next book is From The Black Sea (Shearsman Books, UK, 2027).

6pm doors / no cover / 21+