A night of poetry and music to celebrate the publication of The Letter All Your Friends Have Written You, the debut poetry collection from Caits Meissner and Tishon mingling classic themes of love and war with pointed ruminations on mixtapes and growing up with The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Caits Meissner and Tishon are two emerging writers living in New York City. The Letter All Your Friends Have Written You, this vibrant collection of poems, marks their first collaborative book. Though the writers speak different tongues, they’ve managed to put together a collection that’s resonant and harmonious. Tishon writes a moving tribute to a childhood friend lost to gun violence in contrast to a dry rumination on art and sexuality under the gaze of Vincent Van Gogh. Caits laments her angsty pink-haired teenage years in one poem, in another converses with a fictionalized Mavis Staples about lost love. Mingling classic themes of love and war with pointed ruminations on mixtapes and growing up with The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, this book adds two new voices to modern American poetry.

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Also performing:

• Mums and Aurora
• Safia Elhillo
• Elana Bell
• Ocean Vuong
• Katie Mullins
• Deidre (of Savoir Adore)