The Dikeou Collection will host the sixth installment of the Hope & Thanks and the Unforgiving Literary Series on Thursday, November 13, at 7:00pm. This event will take place at Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax, 312 E Colfax Ave, and will feature readings from Dan Beachy-Quick, Carolina Ebeid, and Eric Baus. Denver author Hanna Andrews is the organizer of this recently renewed series. This event is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be provided.
Dan Beachy-Quick is author, most recently, of a study of John Keats, A Brighter Word than Bright: Keats at Work. A new book of poems will be published this spring. He teaches in the MFA Program at Colorado State University. Carolina Ebeid was the 2012-2014 Fellow at the Stadler Center for Poetry. She has received awards and fellowships from CantoMundo, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and the Academy of American Poets. Recent work appears in Sixth Finch, Gulf Coast, and the Colorado Review. Her first book will be published by Noemi Press in 2016. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers, and has begun a PhD in the University of Denver’s creative writing program. Eric Baus is the author of The Tranquilized Tongue (City Lights, 2014), How I Became a Hum (Octopus Books, forthcoming 2015), and other books. He lives in Denver and teaches at Regis University.
Hanna Andrews is the author of Slope Move (Coconut Books, 2013) and is at work on her 2nd collection of poems. She received her MFA from Columbia College Chicago and is the former Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets where she curated the Poem-a-Day series. She is the co-founder and Editor of the feminist poetry press Switchback Books, and lives in Denver with her husband, the poet Eryn Green, and their baby daughter, Aya.