Reading: Inna Krasnoper, Eric Baus, Leah Nieboer, and Tony Mancus, Thursday, April 17, 2025, 7pm
Join us on Thursday, April 17, 2025, 7pm, for a night of poetry and performance in celebration of the recent release of Inna Krasnoper’s dis tanz. The event takes place at Counterpath, 7935 East 14th Ave. in Denver, and is free and open to the public.
Inna Krasnoper is a Berlin-based poet and dance artist. She graduated from the Chto Delat Collective School of Engaged Art in Saint Petersburg and holds a BA in Dance, Context, Choreography from University of the Arts in Berlin. Her Russophone poetry collections include Nitki torchat (Loose Threads), published by the Voznesensky Center, and Dorogoi chelovek (Dear Person), published by NLO.Her multilingual poetry has appeared in her chapbooks Over Sight (Eulalia Books) and Sealed (Black Sunflowers Poetry Press), as well as in Annulet, Gulf Coast, Ghost Proposal, antiphony, mercury firs, and elsewhere. Krasnoper’s first English-language poetry collection dis tanz was published by Veliz Books in March 2025.
Eric Baus is the author of five books of poetry: How I Became a Hum (Octopus Books, 2020) The Tranquilized Tongue, (City Lights 2014), Scared Text, winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry (Center for Literary Publishing, 2011), Tuned Droves (Octopus Books, 2009), and The To Sound, winner of the Verse Prize (Wave Books, 2004). He is also the author of several chapbooks, most recently The Rain Of The Ice (Above/Ground Press 2014) and Euphorbia (Above/Ground Press 2019). His poems have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, and Finnish. He is a graduate of the PhD program in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Denver as well as the MFA program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He teaches literature and creative writing at Regis University’s Mile High MFA program in Denver.
Leah Nieboer is a poet, Deep Listener, graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, and current PhD candidate in English & Literary Arts at the University of Denver. Her first collection of poetry, SOFT APOCALYPSE, was selected by Andrew Zawacki for the 2021 Georgia Poetry Prize (UGA Press, 2023) and named a top debut collection of 2023 by Poets & Writers Magazine. She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts at Mt. San Angelo and at the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany. She lives in Denver, where she writes, teaches, and co-hosts The Ritter, a new arts & culture podcast.
Tony Mancus is the author of Same After Life (Gasher, 2024) and All the Ordinariness (The Magnificent Field, 2022) along with a handful of chapbooks. He serves as the chapbook editor for Barrelhouse and works as an instructional designer. He lives in Lakewood with his wife, son, and two ninja cats and some of his work can be found at tonymancus.com.