This summer, join us to hear featured poets share their work in this partnership between Chicago Poetry Center and The Green at 320 S. Canal St. (aka The Green at 320). After every reading, stick around for the open mic to share your own poems, stories, songs, and more.
June 29 features Temperance Aghamohammadi!
Temperance Aghamohammadi is an Acolyte of the Exquisite. A trans Iranian-American poet, medium, and critic, she is the author of BATTALION SHAPED GIRL and Behnt, selected by Dorothea Lasky as the winner of The New Delta Review Chapbook Prize. Her work appears in The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, New England Review, Fairy Tale Review, Worms Magazine, and elsewhere. She is an associate editor at RHINO Poetry and has received support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Hailing from the Northeast, she currently haunts the Midwest.
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