Join us Tuesday, November 1 at 7 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. Pacific) for a reading with Jennifer Barber and A. Molotkov. Jennifer will be reading from her most recent poetry collection The Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made and A. Molotkov will be reading from his poetry collection Future Symptoms. Please register (below) to receive the Zoom link.

Jennifer Barber is the author of the poetry collections Rigging the Wind, Given Away, Works on Paper, and The Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made. She is co-editor, with Jessica Greenbaum and Fred Marchant, of the new anthology Tree Lines: 21st Century American Poems (Grayson Books, 2022). Her recent poems appear in On the Seawall, 32 Poems, and Ibbetson Street and are forthcoming in Upstreet and Post Road. She founded the literary journal Salamander in 1992 and served as its editor-in-chief through 2018. Her website is jenniferbarber.org.

The Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made can be purchased here.

A. Molotkov’s poetry collections are “The Catalog of Broken Things,” “Application of Shadows,” “Synonyms for Silence” and “Future Symptoms”. His memoir “A Broken Russia Inside Me” about growing up in the USSR and making a new life in America is forthcoming from Propertius; he co-edits The Inflectionist Review. His collection of ten short stories, “Interventions in Blood,” is part of Hawaii Review Issue 91; his prose is represented by Laura Strachan at Strachan Lit. Please visit him at AMolotkov.com.

Future Symptoms can be purchased here.

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