Abraham Smith and Kirsten Ihns Launch “Dear Weirdo” via Zoom on February 3rd
IN NORMAL TIMES, we would host a big, in-person party to celebrate the release of Abraham Smith’s mesmerizing new book, Dear Weirdo. The next best thing, though, is to use the magic of technology to host an event in which Propeller Books poets in different cities read and chat together. So that’s what we’re doing.
Please join us February 3rd via Zoom as we host a book launch event for Abraham Smith’s Dear Weirdo. Kirsten Ihns, author of sundaey, will join Smith in reading and chatting. This Zoom event is free, but will require advance registration—you’ll receive a link and passcode the day of the event. Details below!
ABRAHAM SMITH with KIRSTEN IHNS via Zoom
Thursday, February 3rd, 5:00pm Pacific / 7:00pm Central
Register in advance for this event at the following link:
https://pdx.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rf--urTosHtXqyATLNyxpp_Qr4-Mf-oBq
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email and information about joining the meeting on the day of the event.
Order Dear Weirdo from Propeller Books (shipping is free).
Abraham Smith is the author of numerous poetry collections—most recently, the chapbook Bear Lite Inn (New Michigan Press, 2020), the full-length Destruction of Man (Third Man Books, 2018), and Dear Weirdo (Propeller Books, 2022). Away from his scampers and desks, he improvises poems inside songs with the Snarlin’ Yarns; their debut record Break Your Heart was released on Dial Back Sound in Fall 2020: thesnarlinyarnsut.bandcamp.com. He lives in Ogden, Utah, where he is Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of Creative Writing at Weber State.
Kirsten Ihns is the author of sundaey (Propeller Books, 2020). She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and is currently a PhD candidate in English at the University of Chicago, where she studies perceptual rhythms in long contemporary poems and some films, and co-organizes the cclouds reading/artist talk series and the Poetics Workshop. She also works as a poetry editor for Chicago Review and, as of 2022, Fence.
