Sheri Reda - Poetry Book Launch

Join author Sheri Reda as she discusses her newest book of poetry, Diaspora

Join us for an evening with Chicago Author Sheri Reda as she discusses her newest book of poetry, Diaspora. After a conversation, Poetry reading, and Q&A with the author, we will mingle and Sheri will be signing books.

Free ticket without a copy of the book. We will have Sheri's books for sale if you wish to purchase at the event

About the Book

Diaspora reflects on immigrant ancestors, the starving worlds they left behind, and the adopted communities they scrambled so gamely to build. It uses direct language and vivid imagery to honor both ancient roots and modern aspirations, while observing—with love, humor, and occasional horror—the way tensions between them become an epigenetic inheritance. Writer and historian Rhiannon Koehler calls the book “an antidote to our poisonous times.”

About the Author

Sheri Reda lives in Chicago, where she works as a celebrant, public speaker, and youth librarian. Her poems have appeared in Examined Life Journal and Eocene Journal of Environmental Humanities, and have been anthologized in The Healer’s Burden (2020), The Nature of Our Times (2024) and the award-winning Dear Human at the Edge of Time. Her Memoir, Life is Like That (La Vita É Cosi) was longlisted for the 2026 International Creative Voices Award. Sheri is the author of Stubborn (Locofo Chaps/Moria Press, 2017).