Reading: Bo Hwang, Stella Corso, Shreeya Shrestha, Althea Baird, Friday, April 25th, 7pm

Join us on Friday, April 25, 2025, at 7pm at Counterpath (1935 East 14th Ave. in Denver) for a night of readings to celebrate Stella Corso’s new chapbook, the people were lovely but I was not and Bo Hwang’s abalone. 

Bo Hwang is an artist and writer working with poetry and movement. abalone is a poetry performance, object, and chapbook out from Counterpath (2025). Other recent work includes Nightlaps (Wendy’s Subway 2024 Open Reading Period finalist) and Squat Practice, an essay work on tropical opacity (Essay Press 2024 Chapbook Contest finalist). Bo has taught movement workshops at The Poetry Project and the Jack Kerouac School, and lives in Albuquerque by a big tree.

Stella Corso wrote the poetry collections Green Knife and Tantrum from Rescue Press, along with chapbooks from Sixth Finch, Blush Lit, and Bateau Press. the people were lovely, but I was not is an experiment in recollecting, retrieving, and repurposing the author’s personal archive of shame.

Shreeya Shrestha is an artisan and a writer. Born and raised in Nepal, Shrestha calls Boulder, Colorado her not-home.

Althea Baird is a wage worker, artist, and organizer for land defense based in Albuquerque, NM. Her poems have been published by Visible Binary, Pan-Pan Press, and the Healing Verse Poetry Line and she has performed at the ICA in Philadelphia, and on Montez Press Radio.