Join us for a literary reading featuring writers Adlan Jackson, Jancie Creaney, Nina Reljic ,  Latif Askia Ba, and Minahil Khan. Come for the wine, stay for the gorgeous poetry and prose.

Adlan Jackson is a writer and editor at Hell Gate, New York’s worker-owned news site. He has written about arts and culture for the New York Times Magazine, Pitchfork, The New Yorker and more.

Jancie Creaney is a writer from Montreal whose work can be read in Ugly Duckling Presse's Second Factory, American Chordata, Tammy Journal, The Puritan, and elsewhere.

Minahil Akbar Khan is an arts worker, organizer, and sometimes writer living in Brooklyn on unceded Lenape land. Raised in NYC, they have roots in South Asia, where she was born. Minahil's relationship to their writing has been fraught the last few years, but writing has been a deeply liberatory practice for them in the past, and they're excited to rebuild their connection to this practice. You can find Minahil at @minahilakhan on socials, and contact them via their website minahilakbar.com.

Latif Askia Ba is a poet with Choreic Cerebral Palsy from Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and is currently teaching there as an Early Career Fellow. He’s also an author at Stillhouse Press, who published his first full-length collection, The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon, in September of 2022.

Nina Reljić is a writer from London. Her chapbook, AGNES, is out with Wrong Press. Her poetry portfolio was shortlisted and commended for The White Review Poet’s Prize 2022, and two of her poems were selected as finalists for the Indiana Review 2021 Poetry Prize. Her writing can also be found in New Ohio Review, 3AM Mag, Anthropocene, Image, and others. She has a Writing MFA from Columbia University and works at a literary scouting agency. She is also the co-founder and host of STREAMROLLER Poetry Reading Series. Nina lives in New York City.

Loré Yessuff is a writer based in New York City. Her poems and prose have been featured in Voicemail Poems, The New York Times, Vox, and other publications.