Red Light Lit: Chicago
Join us for an evening of poetry, stories, and live music, exploring themes of love, sex, and relationships in celebration of Hollie Hardy’s newly released poetry collection, Lions Like Us published by Red Light Lit Press.
Featuring:
Hollie Hardy
Ada Genavia
Loria Mendoza
Nick Jaina
Music:
The Moon & The Man
Hosted By: Jennifer Lewis
Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024
8pm
Room 13 in The Old Chicago Inn
3222 N Sheffield Ave.
Chicago, IL
$10
Tickets at the Door
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.
Ada Genavia is a writer living in Alameda, CA. A literary nomad with a day job, she enjoys writing prose, flash fiction and creative nonfiction. Ada has been previously featured with Red Light Lit and published in sPARKLE + bLINK. She is the daughter of Filipino immigrants.
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.