Sunday Salon Chicago was so much fun tonight at 6pm w/ inspiring readings from Nancy Miller Gomez, @chotchandani.bsky.social, Esther Okonkwo, Daniel Tam-Claiborne & Donato Loia. TY to my talented guest-readers & all who joined us this evening. sundaysalon-chicago.com 🔥👏🌈

I'm excited to host SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO tonight on ZOOM at 6 pm CT with featured readers Nancy Miller Gomez, @chotchandani.bsky.social, Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, Daniel Tam-Claiborne & Donato Loia. Come join us, won't you? Register for Zoom at sundaysalon-chicago.com 👏👏👏 ❤️🍁🌈

Sunday Salon Chicago happens on Zoom in 4 days on 10/26 at 6 pm CT w/ a fine lineup w/ Nancy Miller Gomez, @chotchandani.bsky.social, Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, Daniel Tam-Claiborne & Donato Loia. Join us! Register at: tinyurl.com/448u4yw3 OR www.sundaysalon-chicago.com 🔥👏🌈

On October 26, Sunday Salon Chicago is happening on Zoom at 6 pm CT, featuring Perugia’s own @chotchandani.bsky.social and Nancy Miller Gomez, Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, Daniel Tam-Claiborne & Donato Loia, hosted & curated by @ignatius2u.bsky.social. Register here: tinyurl.com/448u4yw3

SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO happens in 3 days, WOW! Hope to see you on Sept. 28, 2025 @roscoebooks.bsky.social at 7 pm. Come hear this impressive lineup w/ @ninasudhakar.bsky.social, Michael McColly, Ben Tanzer, Janice Deal & Carlos Cumpian. Join us, Chicago! All authors' bios: sundaysalon-chicago.com 😍🌈🍂

SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO's website is now updated with our 9/28/25 readers' bios. They'll be reading @roscoebooks.bsky.social & feature @ninasudhakar.bsky.social, MichaelMcColly, Ben Tanzer, @janicemdeal.bsky.social & Carlos Cumpián. Pls join us. Visit sundaysalon-chicago.com & join our email list. ❤️

SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO's next reading happens on Sept. 28 @roscoebooks.bsky.social w/ an impressive lineup featuring @ninasudhakar.bsky.social, Michael McColly, Ben Tanzer, Janice Deal & Carlos Cumpian. Hope you'll join us, Chicago! Pls share. Website updates coming soon: sundaysalon-chicago.com ❤️👏🔥

Excited to be a part of PRINTERS ROW LIT FEST's 40th anniversary this year in Chicago! POETRY HOUR on the North Stage, Sunday Sept 07, 2025 at 12 pm. Hope to see you there. TY PRLF!!! #prl2025

TONIGHT 8/31/25 @7pm > Sunday Salon Chicago hosts THE OVERTURNING ANTHOLOGY book launch at Roscoe Village's finest bookstore: @roscoebooks.bsky.social. Doors open at 6:30. Free parking on Roscoe St. Event co-editors & co-hosts: @vabellwriter, @rice_christine & myself. Hope to see you, Chicago! 🌺🌈 💝

THIS SUNDAY! Sunday Salon Chicago launches THE OVERTURNING ANTHOLOGY on 8/31 at 7 pm @roscoebooks.bsky.social in Roscoe Village ❤️🔥🌈 Hope to see you, Chicago!

Sunday Salon Chicago hosts 2 August Pop-Up reading events: one at Evanston's Fountain Square LIT FEST on Sat. 8/23 at 5 pm; as well, a book launch for THE OVERTURNING ANTHOLOGY @roscoebooks.bsky.social on Sun. 8/31 at 7 pm. Hope to see you. Bios are up at www.sundaysalon-chicago.com

SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO happens in-person @roscoebooks.bsky.social in just 3 days on 7/27 at 7 pm CT, featuring Rita Woods, Cynthia Pelayo, @meganstielstra.bsky.social, Westley Heine, & @wesblake.bsky.social 🔥 sundaysalon-chicago.com for more. Hope to see you, Chicago 👋🌈

@elizabethniarchosneukirch.com Thank you so much for sharing❣️🌺👍

In just under 2 weeks, on July 27 at 7 pm CT, SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO happens @roscoebooks.bsky.social, featuring Rita Woods, Cynthia Pelayo, @meganstielstra.bsky.social, Westley Heine, & @wesblake.bsky.social 🔥❤️👏 You can read all authors' bios at sundaysalon-chicago.com. Join us! 🥰🌺🌞

1. Visit @bookshop.org and select the local independent bookstore you wish to support ❤️ 2. Buy more books than you will ever have time to read 📚📚📚 3. Feel happy knowing you have helped authors and bookstores instead of billionaires 🙌🏻

SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO is pleased to announce its next in-person reading event @roscoebooks.bsky.social on July 27 at 7 pm CT, featuring Rita Woods, Cynthia Pelayo, @meganstielstra.bsky.social, Westley Heine, & @wesblake.bsky.social 🔥❤️👏 Bios are up at www.sundaysalon-chicago.com. Mark your calendars!

SUCCESS!!! Sunday Salon Chicago on Zoom last Sunday evening 6/29/25 was fun with @oneldammit.bsky.social, Alex Poppe, Geneffa Jahan, Dane Cervine, & Hosho McCreesh 😀🤟💗Thank you, all, for your fine readings & a lovely gathering of listeners: fans, fam, & friends in attendance!

Sunday Salon Chicago on Zoom is but a few days away, featuring @oneldammit.bsky.social Michele McDannold, Alex Poppe, Geneffa Jahan, Dane Cervine, & Hosho McCreesh on June 29, 2025 at 6 pm CT 😍👏🌈🌷🌷🌷Register for Zoom at sundaysalon-chicago.com or tiny-url it tinyurl.com/bdep3md4 Join us!

Sunday Salon Chicago is a week away, happening as a Zoom event on June 29, 2025 at 6 pm CT, featuring @oneldammit.bsky.social, Alex Poppe, Geneffa Jahan, Dane Cervine, & Hosho McCreesh. 😍🌈🔥🌏🌺💖 Register for Zoom at www.sundaysalon-chicago.com or tiny-url it here: tinyurl.com/bdep3md4

Sunday Salon Chicago's next reading is a Zoom event on June 29 at 6 pm CT. Hope you'll join us for an evening of prose & poetry, w/ @oneldammit.bsky.social, Alex Poppe, Geneffa Jahan, Dane Cervine, & Hosho McCreesh. Register here: www.sundaysalon-chicago.com 😍🙌🌺

What a night! SundaySalonChicago happened yesterday 5/25 at 7pm CT at @roscoebooks.bsky.social in Roscoe Village, Chgo. A fine night of prose & poetry! I hosted Afabwaje Kurian, @bside-editions.bsky.social, @thejs3.bsky.social, Zak Mucha, & Chris Solís Green🔥❤️👏 www.sundaysalon-chicago.com

This Thursday 5/29, I'll be reading w/ a fab group of Asian American writers at 7 pm CT for a lovely event in honor of AAPI month. Won't you join us, friends? 🔥❤️🌺 Register at: BIT.LY/APAHMZOOM or scan the QR. Host @janehseu.bsky.social

I'm incredibly honored with my first appearance in the BMF anthology. 🎉Thanks to the team for including my flash in such wonderful company & to @lit-namjooning.bsky.social for publishing & nominating it!

SundaySalonChicago is tonight at 7 pm @roscoebooks.bsky.social! Come join us. Support your author friends & a fine bookstore on the city's north side. I'm happy to feature Afabwaje Kurian, @bside-editions.bsky.social Deborah Shapiro, @thejs3.bsky.social, Zak Mucha & Chris Solís Green. 👏😍 🌈

SundaySalonChicago is 4 days away! Join us @roscoebooks.bsky.social in Roscoe Village, Chgo, this Sun. May 25, 7 pm for a fine night of prose & poetry. I'm excited to host Afabwaje Kurian, @bside-editions.bsky.social, @thejs3.bsky.social, Zak Mucha, & Chris Solís Green🔥❤️👏 www.sundaysalon-chicago.com

May 25! Check out this event including Acre author @thejs3.bsky.social (DEFIANT ACTS)! 🎉📚🖊️

I'm excited to host Sunday Salon Chicago's next in-person reading event @roscoebooks.bsky.social on May 25 at 7 pm CT, w/ Afabwaje Kurian, @bside-editions.bsky.social Deborah Shapiro, @thejs3.bsky.social, Zak Mucha, & Chris Solís Green🔥❤️👏 Bios are up at www.sundaysalon-chicago.com. Come join us!

Tomorrow night at the @storystudiochicago.bsky.social Story Ball! Come get a hot, fresh haiku while you wait from Ola Faleti, Rachel Robbins, Eric Plattner & yours truly! www.storystudiochicago.org/storyball/

How a couple’s passion for books spurred not only a romance but a business embraced by local authors. 📕

A shout out for a man of talents, author extraordinaire, and soulful facilitator for writers, my friend Ben Tanzer. Congrats on your new book! 👏😍🔥 Ben will be in-conversation at The BookCellar on Thu. May 8th w/ @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social. Register here: www.bookcellarinc.com/ben-tanzer-c...

Sunday Salon Chicago is pleased & excited to announce its next in-person reading event @roscoebooks.bsky.social on May 25 at 7 pm CT, featuring Afabwaje Kurian, @bside-editions.bsky.social, Zak Mucha, @thejs3.bsky.social, & Chris Solis Green 👏💗🔥 Pls join us. www.sundaysalon-chicago.com

WE THE PEOPLE theatre performance at Perennial Theater Chicago tomorrow May 4th. Get your tickets here: perennialtheatre.brownpapertickets.com

Hey Bluesky! I'm editing a forthcoming anthology from Belt Publishing about the Great Lakes! I'm particularly looking for more nonfiction that explores climate change and climate resilience. Check out the full call & get your submissions in by January 31! chireviewofbooks.com/2024/09/06/c...

Excited to be in conversation with author James Stewart III at @bookends.bsky.social bookstore in Evanston, IL on Wed. May 21st. Come join us and show James some love, Chicago friends. Pls register on Eventbrite or use the QR code ❤️🔥🎉

My poem "Searching" is in the lovely Spring 2025 issue of Allium: A Journal of Poetry & Prose @alliumjournal.bsky.social. Excited to be in such good company. TY to all at Allium, esp. Tony Trigilio & Marc Meierkort for the acceptance. 😍

My in-conversation with the inimitable & super-talented spec-fic author Dr. Rita Woods is just 2 days away on Tu. 4/29, 7 pm at Women & Children First Bookstore. Hope you'll join us, Chicago friends, for Rita's new novel THE EDGE OF YESTERDAY (Detroit then & now!). Register: tinyurl.com/5n8e5awf

Tonight's Sunday Salon Chicago's ZOOM reading was so much fun, so inspiring & essential. TY to our five readers: Maggie Paul, @wendywisner.bsky.social, @sudhab.bsky.social, Liz Rose Shulman, & Todd Cirillo. And TY to everyone for attending! 👏👏👏🔥😁💓 www.sundaysalon-chicago.com

Final push! Sunday Salon Chicago is tomorrow evening at 6pm on Zoom. Come join me for a pleasurable evening of prose & poetry w/ Maggie Paul, @wendywisner.bsky.social, @sudhab.bsky.social, Liz Rose Shulman & Todd Cirillo 🧡🌞🌺 Register here at: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

My new poet friend Petr Hruska (Czech) read at Sunday Salon Chicago last Summer, but he's going to miss out this time while on his 2nd US tour. Petr is reading on the East Coast, so do check him out at these events: new-york.czechcentres.cz/en/program/v... slavic.fas.harvard.edu/event/everyt...

Sunday Salon Chicago on Zoom is just days away & I'm thinking how good it would be to see you on 4/27 at 6 pm CT as we welcome Maggie Paul, @sudhab.bsky.social, @wendywisner.bsky.social, Liz Rose Shulman & Todd Cirillo. Witness history being made at www.sundaysalon-chicago.com. Come join me...😍👏😀🌏🌺🌈

Friends, do you live in the Colorado Plateau and are writing about/interested in writing about it? The Museum of Northern Arizona is inviting submissions by April 30th for their Poetry Maps project. Please submit. More info here: musnaz.org/on-view/poet...

Happy #NationalPoetryMonth day 15. c/o @ctsalazar.bsky.social

I'm really looking forward to my conversation with spec-fic author Rita Woods at Chicago's Women & Children First Bookstore on Tues. April 29 at 7 pm to celebrate the launch of her stunning novel THE EDGE OF YESTERDAY (spotlight on Detroit!)❣️🌺🌈 Hope you'll join us!

Sunday Salon Chicago REMINDER! Join us for a Zoom reading event on 4/27 at 6 pm CT & experience a lovely evening of prose and poetry w/ Maggie Paul, Liz Rose Shulman, @sudhab.bsky.social, @wendywisner.bsky.social, & Todd Cirillo 💖🔥🌎 To register for zoom, visit www.sundaysalon-chicago.com

Friday April 25th at 5pm come hear these six posts in person at Red Room (3rd floor) Rita Dove, @alinaetc.bsky.social @abipollokoff.bsky.social @majda.bsky.social Jennifer Espinoza And Julia Kolchinsky ! #nationalpoetrymonth #coupletnyc Thanks to @pw.org !

Join me on Thu May 29th 7 pm via Zoom for a reading & convo about all things Asian-Am literary, hosted by Chicago Literary Hall of Fame & @janehseu.bsky.social, w/ South Asia Institute, Kundiman, Mary Grace Bertulfo, Helene Achanzar, more 😍👏🌺🔥🌈🌎 Visit: BIT.LY/APAHMZOOM

Some core readings that sustain me..,

Excited to share the news that EVERYTHING I TOUCH IS—& ISN'T—YOU the 2nd collab from David Allen Sullivan and moi (following Salt Pruning) will be released by @roadsidepress.bsky.social in May 2026. We're the press' first collaborative work! www.roadsidefam.com 🎉🔥😍 TY! @oneldammit.bsky.social

I’m thrilled to also announce that my collection of poems— about loss, grief, immigrant life, & family hardship—titled BONE DUST MOTHER has been accepted for publication by GlassLyrePress in Spring 2026. What a blessing! TY so much AmiKaye & Glass Lyre Press! 🌈🔥🌷💝💝💝

Sunday Salon Chicago is back! Join us on April 27 at 6 pm CT on ZOOM for an exciting evening of prose and poetry, featuring Maggie Paul, Liz Rose Shulman, @sudhab.bsky.social, @wendywisner.bsky.social, & Todd Cirillo 💖🔥🌎🌈☀️🌺 For Zoom registration & authors' bios, visit www.sundaysalon-chicago.com