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East Coast poet Leah Umansky and West Coast poet Dena Rash Guzman cohost an evening of political poetry from both coasts for "Politics & Pints" at Rose City Book Pub. Readers include Chiwan Choi, Meg Day, Jen Fitzgerald, Dena Rash Guzman, Robert Lashley, Faisal Mohyuddin, and Leah Umansky.
Please join us at this free event featuring BPJ contributors and our 2019 Adrienne Rich Award judge Patricia Smith. There will be refreshments, ample seating, and journals for sale along with contributors' new titles. For more about our glorious poets in the order in which they'll be reading: Christine Gosnay is the author of Even Years (Kent State University Press, 2017), winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and The Wanderer, winner of the Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize from Beloit Poetry Journal. Her work has appeared in POETRY, The Missouri Review, The Poetry Review, New Ohio Review, and Third Coast Magazine, and has featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. She lives in Maryland. Daniel Arias-Gómez was born and raised in Guadalajara. He…