Faisal Mohyuddin is the author of Elsewhere: An Elegy (Next Page Press, 2024), The Displaced Children of Displaced Children, (Eyewear, 2018), and the chapbook The Riddle of Longing (Backbone Press, 2017). His recent work appears in Poetry, The Poetry Review...  read

Laaura Goldstein's first collection of poetry, loaded arc, was released by Trembling Pillow Press in 2013 and their second collection, awesome camera was published by Make Now Press in 2014. They have also published several chapbooks with vibrant small presses...  read

PJ Gray has been seen storytelling at 2nd Story, Nestor Gomez's 80 Minutes Around the World, Sidetrack's Outspoken, Drinkers with Writing Problems, and Serving the Sentence to name a few. His varied writing career has included cookbook publishing, television writing...  read

Steve Bellinger was born and raised on the West Side of Chicago by a single mom who worked nights for a printing company. She would bring home books and magazines to encourage him to read. This is how he discovered...  read

Writer. Poet. Bicyclist. New Englander by Trade. Sondra Morin is an alumna of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the Juniper Writing Institute. She is published in The Rumpus, vis a tergo, SIMILAR : PEAKS ::, Curbside Splendor, among others, and...  read

Get your monthly dose of live lit at Chicago's favorite eclectic reading series! Join us in the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf on Tuesday, Oct. 1 where we'll have readings from Steve Bellinger, Faisal Mohyuddin, Laaura Goldstein, PJ Gray, and Sondra...  read

Our September show brought together readers new and old. Dr. Ada Cheng shared a contemplative essay about aging and acceptance, followed by Kemi Alabi reading poems from their acclaimed book Against Heaven. Tuesday Funk co-founder Hallie Palladino read a personal...  read