Sundaey on Saturday! (Live on Instagram)
DURING LIFE UNDER quarantine, people are staying distant, staying at home, and staying safe—as they should! But these would have been the months in which Kirsten Ihns, author of the fantastic debut poetry collection sundaey, barnstormed the country, dazzling listeners and readers from city to city.
One location Ihns was set to dazzle was The Dial Bookshop in downtown Chicago. Though that event cannot happen in person, The Dial has graciously offered to host an event with Ihns this Saturday (5/16) via the store’s Instagram. Ihns will read and chat with fellow poet Toby Altman. Here’s the full announcement The Dial has designed, as well as further details below:
KIRSTEN IHNS WITH TOBY ALTMAN via THE DIAL BOOKSHOP
Saturday, May 16th, 1:00pm Pacific (2:00pm Mountain / 3:00pm Central)
You can watch Ihns and Altman on your computer, you can watch them on your phone, you can watch them on a tablet, and maybe…do they make fancy watches that have Instagram on them? Eyeglasses that allow you to watch Instagram while nobody is aware you are watching Instagram? Dunno. Hard to say. Not up to date on those technologies.
But please also keep in mind that, after we have endured this isolation, The Dial will still be a beautiful bookstore that awaits and deserves your patronage. Check this place out:
Follow The Dial on Instagram so you’re set for the Kirsten Ihns and Toby Altman event.
Order sundaey from Propeller Books (shipping is free).
Kirsten Ihns earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. She is currently a Ph.D. student and Neubauer Presidential Fellow in English at the University of Chicago, where she studies texts that seem to want to be images, co-founded the Plexiglas series at The Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, co-organizes UChicago’s Poetry & Poetics Workshop, and works for Chicago Review. She is from Atlanta, Georgia.
