Avail Launch Party & Reading

Help Us Celebrate Avail!

Join us at Best Video on Whitney Ave in Hamden for a party in celebration of Erin O'Luanaigh's debut poetry collection, Avail. The party will feature readings by Erin and poets Ange Mlinko and V. Penelope Pelizzon.

Copies of Erin's book will be Avail-able for purchase. (See what we did there?)

Come listen to poems, peruse Best Video's shelves, and enjoy a snack or a coffee/tea/beer/wine from the Coffee Bar.

Registration is free and for headcount purposes only. Everyone's welcome!

Erin O’Luanaigh worked as a jazz singer before receiving her MFA in Poetry from the University of Florida. Her poems have appeared in The Yale Review, AGNI, The Southern Review, 32 Poems, Bad Lilies, Subtropics, Nimrod, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere. She is currently a PhD candidate in English Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah. Avail is her first book.

Ange Mlinko is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Foxglovewise (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and a book of lyric criticism, Difficult Ornaments: Florida and the Poets (Oxford University Press). A new chapbook, Darkroom, is forthcoming from Foolscap Press in Nashville. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The London Review of Books, and has received the Randall Jarrell Award in Criticism as well as the Frederick Bock Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and residencies at Hawthornden Castle and Civitella Ranieri. She has taught workshops at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Key West Literary Seminars, and currently teaches poetry at the University of Florida, where she directs the MFA program.

V. Penelope Pelizzon’s A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye (Pitt Poetry Series), longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, is a TLS Book of the Year and one of LitHub’s “Favorite Poetry Collections” of 2024. Her first book, Nostos (Ohio University Press), won the Hollis Summers Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award; her second, Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time (The Waywiser Press), was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.