Reading: Lisa Olstein, Sasha Steensen, and Jane Huffman. Saturday, April 11, 2026, 7pm
Please join us on Saturday, April 11, 2026, at tpm at Counterpath (7935 East 14th Ave.) for readings by Lisa Olstein, Sasha Steensen, and Jane Huffman. Free and open to the public.
Lisa Olstein is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Distinguished Office of Echoes, and two books of nonfiction, including Climate, cowritten with Julie Carr. She is also the lyricist for the rock band Cold Satellite fronted by Jeffrey Foucault and in 2025, Lost Alphabet for voice, five musicians, and electronics, an adaptation of her poems by composer Januibe Tejera, premiered with Ensemble Phace. A member of the poetry faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Pushcart Prize, Lannan Residency Fellowship, Hayden Carruth Award, and Writers League of Texas Award.
Jane Huffman is the author of Public Abstract (American Poetry Review, 2023), winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She is a doctoral candidate in English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. Her poems have appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic, Poetry Magazine, The New Yorker, New England Review, and elsewhere. She was a 2019 recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. IG: @somuchdepends / www.janehufffman.com
Sasha Steensen is the author of six books of poetry: A Magic Book; The Method; House of Deer; Gatherest; Everything Awake ; and Well. She is currently at work on a hybrid project, Overland, that documents the seizure, and subsequent development, of hundreds of acres of Native American Land in Northern Colorado. This ongoing, interactive project can be viewed here: https://www.sashasteensen.com/overland. She teaches undergraduate and graduate literature and creative writing classes at Colorado State University, where she was named a Stern Distinguished Professor. She serves as a poetry editor for Colorado Review and is on the advisory board for the Test Site Poetry series. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. Learn more about her work at: https://sashasteensen.com/about