Featured Readers
Hannah Gamble (she/they) is a poet, essayist, screenwriter, and director. Her first book of poems, Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast, won the National Poetry Series in 2011. In 2014, they received the Ruth Lilly/ Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Hannah’s second book of poems, The Traditional Feel of the Ballroom, is now available from TrioHousePress. Additionally, Gamble is the writer, director, and executive producer of the Chicago-based webseries Choose Me: An Abortion Story, which was selected for several national and international film festivals, winning several awards including the Award of Excellence for a TV Show from the Montreal Independent Film Festival and a Best Web Series award from the Miami International Film Festival in 2020.
Kenyatta Rogers is a Cave Canem fellow and has been awarded scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. His work has been previously published in or forthcoming from the Academy of American Poets, Poetry, Jubilat, Bat City Review, The Volta, PANK, and MAKE Magazine, among others. Rogers is a lead teacher for the Poetry Foundation’s Teacher Institute. He serves on the board of directors for AWP and the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, he is a cohost of the Sunday Reading Series with Simone Muench and lives in Chicago. His debut poetry Before I Let Go is forthcoming in 2027 from Trio House Press.