A night of readings by poets Elwin Cotman and Lourdes Figueroa. Both poets will be reading from their new books published this year by Nomadic Press.

Elwin Cotman is a storyteller from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of three collections of speculative short stories, The Jack Daniels Sessions EP, Hard Times Blues, and Dance on Saturday. He is also author of The Wizard's Homecoming (2023, Nomadic Press) and the upcoming collection Weird Black Girls (2024, Scribner). Cotman earned his BA from the University of Pittsburgh and his MFA from Mills College.

Lourdes Figueroa is a Chicanx poet. Her poems are a dialogue of her lived experience when her family worked in el azadón in Yolo County. The words el azadón are used by the ones who work in the fields — the work of tilling the soil under the blistering sun. She is the author of the chapbooks yolotl and Ruidos = To Learn Speak, completed during her Alley Cat Books Residency. Her chapbook Vuelta was recently published by Nomadic Press and can be found at Medicine For Nightmares Bookshop in the Mission and SPD. She works and lives in Oakland with her wife, filmmaker, Peggy Peralta and their red nose pitbull Agnéa. She is a native of limbo nation. Lourdes continues to believe in your lung and your throat.