Poetry in Public celebrates our community’s rich literary tradition and local writing talent by displaying poems by writers of all ages. Hear from some of the 2026 Selected Poets. This

Daniel Umemezie is a Nigerian-American poet whose work explores cultural inheritance and displacement, using bodily transformation as both metaphor and form. His poetry develops a realm between interior experience and

John Ira Thomas returns to Daydreams Comics for another helping of TIRE! He’ll be reading from THE BEST OF TIRE CLASSIFIEDS, a collection of TIRE Magazine’s most brazen attempts to