Red Light Lit: Ferryville, WI
Join us in Driftless Wisconsin for a special book release party in celebration of Lions Like Us, the latest poetry collection by Hollie Hardy.
Hosted by Red Light Lit, this event will feature a blend of live music, storytelling, and poetry. Known for their regional shows, Red Light Lit will bring together a talented troupe of writers to explore themes of love, relationships, sexuality, and gender. Each reading will be accompanied by a live musical score composed by Nick Jaina, adding an extra layer of depth to the experience.
The evening will also include live musical performances by the Chicago-based duo, The Moon & The Man.
Featuring:
Hollie Hardy
Tanis O’Connor
Loria Mendoza
Jenifer Lewis
Nick Jaina
Music:
The Moon & The Man
Hosted By: Jennifer Lewis
Friday, Sept. 6, 2024
6:30pm Doors
7pm Show
ændre arthouse
58879 State Highway 171
Ferryville, WI
$15
Author Bios
Hollie Hardy is a poet, educator, and award-winning author of Lions Like Us (Red Light Lit Press, 2024) and How to Take a Bullet, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press, 2014). She holds an MFA in Poetry from SFSU and teaches private poetry workshops online. She is the founder of Praxis Poetry and host of the long-running monthly reading series Saturday Night Special, a Virtual Open Mic. Publications include The Common, Fourteen Hills, Colossus, Eleven Eleven, MiGoZine, Poetry Superhighway, sPARKLE & bLink, Parthenon West Review, and other journals. She lives in Austin, TX.
Jennifer Lewis is a writer, editor, and publisher of Red Light Lit. Her debut short story collection, The New Low (Black Lawrence Press), was an SPD Bestseller. She is the winner of the Nomadic Press Bindle Award and The Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction Award. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as Cosmonauts Avenue, Midnight Breakfast, The Los Angeles Press, and CRAFT, among others. Additionally, her most recent nonfiction work has been featured in The Rumpus, Alta Journal, and Joshua Tree Voice. She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. Jennifer teaches at The Writing Salon in San Francisco.
Loria Mendoza is a queer Chicanx writer, curator, and performance artist from Austin, Texas. Their book, Life’s Too Short (Fourteen Hills Press) won the Michael Rubin Book Award and their debut book of poetry, The Body Can Tolerate is forthcoming in 2025. They are the curator and host of Red Light Lit Austin, Director of Events for the South Austin Art Project, COO of the Austin Arts Foundation, and a big time believer in the healing power of art, community, storytelling, and love.
Nick Jaina is an author and musician living in Oakland, California. His 2015 memoir Get It While You Can was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Atlantic Monthly, Wilderness House Review, Somnambulist, Oregon Journal of the Humanities, and many other places. His newest book SPEKTRUM is out now. He has composed music scores for feature films, such as the indie comedy All Sorts and the forest fire documentary Elemental. He also co-founded a ballet collective in New York City, in which he was the musical composer and worked with dancers from Juilliard and New York City Ballet and performed works at the Baryshnikov Center and BAM Center for the Arts. Thus far, Nick has recorded (at least) 16 studio albums.
The Moon & The Man is a fun, funky, sultry, indie pop band comprised of Luna Malbroux and Will Clemens—an Alien from the planet Funk, and a Deity of Groove—you have to guess which one is which. Based in the Midwest, The Moon & The Man’s monthly shows are a staple in Chicago and Cincinnati. With tunes reminiscent of the golden age of soul and grooves that call forth a new future, The Moon & The Man cross genres, time, and space to enter an atmosphere of groovy, soulful vibes.