Sebastián H. Páramo

Stevie Edwards

A.H. Jerriod Avant

Join us to celebrate three collections of poetry released in 2023: Quiet Armor by Stevie Edwards, Portrait of Us Burning by Sebastián H. Páramo, and Muscadine by A. H. Jerriod Avant.

There will be readings and a brief Q&A. Thanks to the generosity of Four Corners Brewing, there will be beer.

All three poetry collections will be available for purchase at the event.

About the poets

Sebastián H. Páramo has published poems in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He is the founding editor of The Boiler and serves as poetry editor for Deep Vellum. He lives in Texas.

Stevie Edwards is a lecturer in the Department of English at Clemson University and poetry editor of the South Carolina Review. Her books and chapbooks include Sadness Workshop, Humanly, and Good Grief, and her poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

A. H. Jerriod Avant is the author of Muscadine, forthcoming in 2023 from Four Way Books. He is from Longtown, Mississippi. A graduate of Jackson State University, Avant has earned MFA degrees from Spalding University and New York University. He’s a recipient of support from Vermont Studio Center, the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference, and Naropa’s Summer Writing Program. Avant has received two winter poetry fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a 2019 emerging artist grant from the St. Botolph Club Foundation. He curated a special series of Poem-a-Day from August 17–August 28, 2020 and serves as a teaching fellow in English at Wesleyan University.