4/22: Making Worlds: Local Author's Night @ Booksweet

1729 Plymouth Road,Ann Arbor MI 48105

22 April, 2022

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An evening of readings and performance from three incredible authors: Feyxuan Nguyen, CM Sears, and Reagan M. Sova. On Friday, April 22 from 7:30-9 pm, join us for an evening of readings and performance from three incredible authors: Feyxuan Nguyen – artist, poet, composer, game developer, and author – will be reading from Mothlily & Lilyhound, a poetry collection about Amadeus Vu and the ways in which divinity can be consumed and witnessed in a transgender and Mad Vietnamese reimagining of NBC's Hannibal Lecter.CM Sears – interdisciplinary artist, zine-maker, video essayist, and poet – will be presenting work from her video essay series, Poems-in-Place, followed by a reading of her poetry.Reagan M. Sova – writer, editor, and author – will read from his new release, Wildcat Dreams in the Death Light (First to Knock), an incantatory work of narrative poetry that traces young Mort Sloman’s odyssey to honor his jockey uncle – the only dead man ever to have won a horse race. This is a FREE event is for vaccinated individuals only. Vaccination cards will be checked at the door. Masks are required. RSVPs are required.  ABOUT THE AUTHORS //  Feyxuan Nguyen (they/them) is a disabled fey orchestral music composer, writer-poet, and illustrator-designer. They are also one half of swallow::tale press, a publishing house for mad books. Nguyen's work is about creating symbolic trauma processing paradigms for their own sexual abuse recovery and as a way of creating sanctuary from persisting violence.  CM Sears (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, poet and educator. After working professionally as a dancer, choreographer, and performance artist in New York, Baltimore, and London, she returned to the rust-belt Midwest. She recently graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a Master of Arts in Creative Writing. Sears' poetry has been published by Tupelo Press' 30 x 30 Program. Sad Girl Club Lit recently published her flash fiction work, and her newest flash story “Black Holes” can be read in the Hare’s Paw Literary Journal, March 2022 edition. CM’s poems and texts for performance have been presented at the First Fridays Festival of Ypsilanti, DLEctricity of Detroit, Glastonbury Performing Arts Festival, England, and at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. She is active in the Women’s Caucus for Art and lives and makes art in historic Ypsilanti. Reagan M. Sova is an American living in Belgium. His writing career began when he was orphaned at the age of 16. At that time, Sova developed an idiosyncratic gambling method in the casinos of northern Michigan. These bets financed a flight to Paris where, at 20, he first discovered the power of literature. Since then, Sova has produced poetry and prose that have been featured in Ghost City Review, Common Dreams, and Expat Press. In addition to his latest work, Wildcat Dreams in the Death Light (First to Knock, April 2022), Sova also authored Tiger Island (Harvard Square Press, 2017), an alternate history novel about water privatization, soccer, anarchosyndicalism, and WikiLeaks. In addition to writing poetry and fiction, Sova serves as a writer and editor at The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy, a Brussels-based think tank that seeks to advance the interests of animals in European law and policy.