Reading: Mary Helen Callier, Jane Huffman, and Daniel Ruiz, Friday, April 18, 2025, 7pm

Join us on Friday, April 18, 2025, 7pm, for a reading by Mary Helen Callier, Jane Huffman, and Daniel Ruiz. The event takes place at Counterpath, 7935 East 14th Ave. in Denver, and is free and open to the public.

Mary Helen Callier is currently an instructor and doctoral student in the English and Literary Arts department at the University of Denver, where she serves as one of the poetry editors for the Denver Quarterly. Herpoems have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Bennington Review, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. Her debut collection, When the Horses, was the winner of the 2023 Alice James Editor’s Choice.

Jane Huffman is the author of the poetry collection, Public Abstract, 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, Poetry Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. She was a 2019 recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.

Daniel Ruiz is the author of the poetry collection Reality Checkmate (Four Way Books, 2025). He is a Puerto Rican and Cuban poet and translator, a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers and Florida State University, and a two-time finalist for the National Poetry Series. In 2016, he was a Fulbright Scholar to Chile. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver, where he edits poetry and translation for the Denver Quarterly.