Book Reading – Brody Parrish Craig

with Canese Jarboe & Toni Garcia-Butler

Join Brody Parrish Craig, Canese Jarboe, and Toni Garcia Butler for a reading of their collection of works.

Brody Parrish Craig (they/them) is the author of The Patient is an Unreliable Historian (Omnidawn 2024) & Boyish, which won the 2019 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest. Their writing has been published in Muzzle Magazine, Poetry, Mississippi Review, New South, Missouri Review, and TYPO, among others. They are the editor of TWANG, a regional anthology of trans and gender-nonconforming creators from the South and Midwest. A 2022 recipient of Artist 360’s Community Activator Award, Craig currently co-leads TLGBQ+ community arts programming in the Ozarks.

Canese Jarboe is the author of SISSY (Garden-Door Press, 2024) and the chapbook dark acre (Willow Springs, 2018). Their work has appeared in venues such as American Poetry Review, Poetry, Indiana Review, and Colorado Review. Jarboe is a transmasculine artist from rural southeastern Kansas and a 2024 Tallgrass Artist-in-Residence.

Toni Garcia-Butler (he/they) is a poet, community artist, and DIY pretty boy of many names. He believes artists play a unique role as cultural historians. As a poet, Toni strives to capture the intricacies of lived experiences and connect with others. His work centers his people: Black, Filipino, southern, queer, and everyone existing within their intersections. 

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