Reading: Julia Cohen, Patrick Cottrell, Kazim Ali, Susan Briante, and Prageeta Sharma, Saturday, October 24, 2026, 7pm
Join us on Saturday, October 24, 2026, at 7 pm, at Counterpath (7935 East 14th Ave. in Denver) for readings by Julia Cohen, Patrick Cottrell, Kazim Ali, Susan Briante, and Prageeta Sharma. Free and open to the public.
Prageeta Sharma is the author of six collections of poetry; her most recent collection is Onement Won, out from Wave Books. She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Creative Writing, and Artistic and Aesthetic Practices, a recent recipient of the 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and is currently the Henry G. Lee ’37 professor of English at Pomona College
Patrick Cottrell is the author of two books, Afternoon Hours of a Hermit (Ecco) and Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney’s). He lives and works in Denver.
Susan Briante is the author most recently of Defacing the Monument, essays on immigration, archives, aesthetics and the state, and 13 Questions for the Next Economy: New and Selected Works, a finalist for the CLMP’s Firecracker Award in Poetry. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona.
Julia Cohen’s latest book is Freak Lip (TRP, 2026). She is the author of I Was Not Born (Noemi Press, 2014), a collection of lyric essays, which was translated into German and released by Literaturverlag Droschl. She’s also written two books of poetry, Collateral Light (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2014) and Triggermoon Triggermoon (BLP, 2011). Her nonfiction and poetry appear in issues of The Georgia Review, Southeast Review, The New England Review, Fugue, Heavy Feather Review, Boston Review, and BOMB.
Kazim Ali is the author of over twenty books in multiple genres, including poetry, fiction, memoir, and literary studies. His research and teaching interests include Creative Writing and Literary Arts, Indigenous Studies, Global Anglophone Literature, Palestine and Palestinian Diaspora Studies, as well as Translation and Translation Studies. His book Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water won the Banff Mountain Environmental Book Award in 2021