Join us for a Friday night evening of poetry, featuring Gabrielle Bates, Natalie Eilbert, Patrycja Humienik, and I.S. Jones at Haymarket House.

****Masks are required for all attendees during the program. Doors will open at 6:00 PM.***

We will have a reception with light refreshments following the program.

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Patrycja Humienik, daughter of Polish immigrants, is a writer, performer, and teaching artist based in Seattle, WA. Her poetry is featured or forthcoming in Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, The Adroit Journal, SAND Journal Berlin, 128 Lit, Ninth Letter, The Slowdown show, and elsewhere. She has collaboratively developed performance work for Titwrench Festival, GayCity Seattle, REDCAT New Original Works Festival, Dikeou Literary Series, and Film on the Rocks at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Patrycja is working on her first book, Anchor Baby.

I.S. Jones is an American Nigerian poet, essayist, and art administrator. Her works have appeared and / or are forthcoming in Complex, NBC News THINK, Guernica, Washington Square Review, The Rumpus and elsewhere. She received her MFA in Poetry at UW–Madison where the Inaugural 2019­­–2020 Kemper K. Knapp University Fellowship and the Hoffman Hall Emerging Artist Fellowship recipient. Her chapbook Spells Of My Name was selected by Newfound’s Emerging Poets Series 2021.

Natalie Eilbert is the author of three poetry collections, Overland (Copper Canyon Press, forthcoming 5/16/2023), Indictus (Noemi Press 2018), Swan Feast (Bloof Books 2015). A recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts in poetry, a former Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing, and winner of the George Bogin Memorial Award from Poetry Society of America, Natalie lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where she is a statewide mental health reporter for USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin.

Gabrielle Bates is the author of Judas Goat (Tin House), named by the Chicago Review of Books as a must-read book of 2023. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Bates currently lives in Seattle, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium and co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon. A Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist, her work has been featured in the New Yorker, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Ploughshares, The Slowdown, the Best American Experimental Writing anthology, and elsewhere. Find her online at www.gabriellebat.es or on Twitter: @GabrielleBates.

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This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Tin House. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.