Come ready to this reading series from Durham’s own Bull City Press for engaging poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from established and emerging writers.

This month’s guests will be JP Allen & Andy Young with Simran Singh Jain and Golden Age Comedy.

JP Allen’s poems have appeared in The Normal School, Tinderbox, and elsewhere. He has received an MFA in poetry from Johns Hopkins, as well as scholarships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

Andy Young’s second full-length collection, Museum of the Soon to Depart, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press in October. She is also the author of All Night It Is Morning (Diálogos Press, 2014) and four chapbooks. Young grew up in southern West Virginia and has lived most of her adult life in New Orleans, where she teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Her work has recently appeared in Identity Theory, Drunken Boat, and Michigan Quarterly Review. A graduate of Warren Wilson’s Program for Writers, her work has been translated into several languages, featured in classical and electronic music, in flamenco and modern dance performances, and in jewelry, tattoos, and public buses. andyyoung.org

Simran Singh Jain is a poet, activist, and abortion doula currently based in Durham, North Carolina. She is the National Membership Coordinator at SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, and uses her dedication to social justice and liberation to inform her poetry. Simran’s work has been published by the Academy of American Poets’, West Trade Review, the South Asian Sexual and Mental Health Alliance, Pennsylvania Bards Southeast Poetry Review, Nine Mile Literary Magazine, BigCityLit, and more. Her poem, An Almost Love Letter to an Almost Stranger, is nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was also the editor of a book of poetry translated from Hindi, originally written by her Dadiji (grandmother) Sunita Jain.

Golden Age is an all-star cast of improvisers, Each night, they welcome one special guest to share art and insights. Their experiences inspired their work, now they inspire hilarious conversation and comedy.

Admission: Free!