We Will Sing of Becoming Tender: a night of lyric resilience

Margin Shift Returns with an Exciting Lineup!

After a brief Winter hiatus dedicated to wrapping up some demanding book projects, Margin Shift is back and ready to confront the chaos of 2025 with poetry and prose that is resilient in it's commitment to stand up for and care for our selves and our communities!

Join us at the Hugo House on April 10th as we welcome back Jasmine Elizabeth Smith, whose book Gone South, is a love letter to the prophetic howl of the blues, and Jen Soriano,  whose new collection of lyric essays, Nervous, sings the need to counter our collective anxiety with radical tenderness, along with  Ari B. Cofer, whose poems are sonorous, sensual, and full of self-discovery,  Zach Charles, whose mosaic of self-portraiture is rich with images of self-awareness and challenges to the status quo, and Rhea Melina, whose punk confessions exhibit both an in-your-face protest of personal and societal abuse and and a sincere vulnerability with an inescapable gravity of compassion.

It's going to be a rich night full of fierce displays of tenderness that can withstand all the hate and resentment that's straining our societal bonds at the moment! You won't want to miss!