Join us on Sunday, February 26 for a very special NOMAD: Inam Kang and Gabrielle Octavia Rucker join us for an absolutely magical evening.

Inam Kang is a poet and server from Michigan. His work can be found in The Shallow Ends, Tinderbox Poetry, AAWW’s The Margins, The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me, and other journals and anthologies. He is the winner of the 2017 Winter Tangerine Award and the 2019 Gordon Square Review Poetry Contest. The winner of a Pushcart Prize, he is also a Tin House Summer Workshop alumnus with experiencing teaches students of all ages.

Gabrielle Octavia Rucker is a writer, editor and teaching artist from the Great Lakes currently living in the Gulf Coast. She is a 2020 Poetry Project Fellow, a 2016 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, and the founder of the The Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics, a non-traditional learning space for the poetically minded. Her debut poetry collection, Dereliction, is currently available via The Song Cave.

As always, it will be cute. Don't miss out—get your tickets today!

Join us on Sunday, December 11 for a very special NOMAD: the ineffable Khari Lucas and Keiyaa join us for an absolutely magical evening.

Khari Lucas is an artist whose practice consists of songwriting, production, and composition primarily. He is currently mapping the landscape through which he will chart poetically, the most recent developments of which can be heard on his 2022 album as Contour entitled 'Onwards!'. He has been a resident artist at Pioneer Works and The Hambidge Center amongst other places.

KeiyaA is an artist from Chicago, IL. They practice composing, production, songwriting, and poetry. They’re interested in experimenting with sonic traditions, as well as engaging with notions relating to black peoples lives and the systems that shape them. They independently released their debut album Forever, Ya Girl in 2020.

As always, it will be cute. Don't miss out—get your tickets today!

COVID precautions: NOMAD Readings is first and foremost interested in harm reduction during these very uncertain times. Therefore, all participants will be asked to follow any or all of these three precautions: 1. Proof of Vaccination 2. Rapid Test 36 hours before 3. Maintain mask usage + social distancing. Options 1 and 2 can be emailed directly to nomadreadings@gmail.com.

Join us on Saturday, November 5 as NOMAD celebrates Luther thee Hughes' incredible debut, A Shiver in the Leaves—featuring the inimitable Ladan Osman!

Ladan Osman is the author of Exiles of Eden (2019), winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (2015), winner of the Sillerman Prize. A 2021 Whiting Award winner, she has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, Cave Canem, the Michener Center, and the Fine Arts Work Center. Osman's first short film Sam Underground profiles Sam Diaz, a teenage busker who would become the 2020 American Idol. She’s the co-director/writer of Sun of the Soil, a short documentary on the complicated legacy of Malian emperor, Mansa Musa. Osman’s latest film work, The Ascendants, a music short documentary series is streaming now. She lives in New York.

Luther Hughes is the author of the debut poetry collection, A Shiver in the Leaves (BOA Editions, 2022), and the chapbook Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018), recommended by the American Library Association. He is the founder of Shade Literary Arts, a literary organization for queer writers of color, and co-hosts The Poet Salon podcast. Recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship and 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize, his writing has been published in American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Orion, and more. He was born and raised in Seattle, where he currently lives.

As always, it will be cute. Don't miss out—get your tickets today!

COVID precautions: NOMAD Readings is first and foremost interested in harm reduction during these very uncertain times. Therefore, all participants will be asked to follow any or all of these three precautions: 1. Proof of Vaccination 2. Rapid Test 36 hours before 3. Maintain mask usage + social distancing. Options 1 and 2 can be emailed directly to nomadreadings@gmail.com.

Join us for our very first reading of 2022! We're thrilled to welcome Rio & S*an back to kick things off, as well as introduce our *new* home base & a few changes.

Rio Cortez is the New York Times bestselling author of picture books The ABCs of Black History (Workman, 2020) and The River Is My Sea (S&S, 2024). Her debut poetry collection, Golden Ax, is out now from Penguin Poets.

S*an D. Henry-Smith is an artist and writer working in poetry, photography, and performance who engages Black experimentalisms and collaborative practices. They have received awards and fellowships from the Fulbright Program, The Poetry Project, Poets House, and Antenna/Paper Machine, among others. Henry-Smith collaborates with Imani Elizabeth Jackson as mouthfeel; their book Consider the Tongue (2019) probes histories of aquatic labor and Black food through cooking, poetry, and ephemeral practices. They are the author of two chapbooks, Body Text (2016) and Flotsam Suite: A Strange & Precarious Life, or How We Chronicled the Little Disasters & I Won’t Leave the Dance Floor Til It’s Out of My System (2019). Wild Peach is Henry-Smith’s first full-length collection. They are also the director of the short film Lunar New Year (2021).

As always, it will be cute. Don't miss out!

COVID precautions: NOMAD Readings is first and foremost interested in harm reduction during these very uncertain times. Therefore, all participants will be asked to follow any or all of these three precautions: 1. Proof of Vaccination 2. Rapid Test 36 hours before 3. Masks if you feel inclined. Options 1 and 2 can be emailed directly to nomadreadings@gmail.com.

Facebook Event