Come to our wild reading with some of our favorite emerging poets: Jenny Zhang, Wendy Xu, Monica Mody, and Monica Mcclure.

Take a dive in the black waters of Monica Mody’s shamanic-futuristic Kala Pani (1913 press 2013), the best bonkers, ritualistic-bureaucratic, anti-imperial, terraforming poetry book ever written about lentils. Latina gurlesque poet Monica McClure’s new book Tender Data (Birds LLC 2014) offers a hash-tagged, slippery, code-switching take on gender-making, class warfare, and vexed relationships--that’s 100% chiflada. Ruth Lilly Fellow Wendy Xu--whose You Are Not Dead (Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2013) was one of Poets & Writers's picks for top poetry debuts--"plunder through our lives, collecting the oddest and most significant things, turning our thoughts toward things we couldn’t have known before she turned us toward them" (Dara Wier). Rookie contributor Jenny Zhang--possibly the poet most mentioned when we get internship and job applications--is “a 21st century Whitman, only female, Chinese, and profoundly scatological" (Elizabeth Robinson).