Reading: Sara Wainscott, Andrea Rexilius, Megan Foley, and Jordon Wyberneit. Friday, November 6, 2026, 7pm
Join us on Friday, November 6, 2026, at 7 pm, at Counterpath (7935 East 14th Ave. in Denver) for readings by Sara Wainscott, Andrea Rexilius, Megan Foley, and Jordon Wyberneit. Free and open to the public.
After the Anthropocene invites readers to a fantasy and a future, a mythos of systemic sentience and radical agency. This collection of poetry spans linear time from inception of the universe to the Anthropocene, inviting readers into the language and intellects of the non-human and the hominid. This work explores themes of identity, self-determination, sentiency, consent, agency, capitalism, entitlement, colonization, waste, and offers a perspective on humanness.
Winner of the 2025 Escarpment Prize for Poetry
“Equal measures death doula and survival guide, Megan Foley has done the impossible in this badass debut collection, Sike Ward. Meet some of the crew – Depression Monster, Lobotomy Horse, Joy Wizard. This is fearless writing that barbs into your skin while giving you a lick of your favorite flavor of ice cream. Urgent, absurdist, often hilarious, these poems pulse with mad canon energy, trans joy, and devastating hope. “Survival is hands and knees picking glitter out of the carpet.” This book sparkles with the rug burn of hard-won lived experience of suicidality, medical gaslighting, and the daily work of staying alive.” -Stephanie Heit, Author of Psych Murders & The Color She Gave Gravity
Sike Ward was nominated for a 2026 Lambda Literary Award in the Transgender Poetry category.
Sara Wainscott’s The Star Cabinsis a profound exploration of the self’s melt through language acquisition, pattern, and loss. The speaker of this expansive long poem morphs between selves: writer, mother, reader, daughter, drifter, lover, and witness while questioning the limits and obligations of each. “Too long alone an I becomes a you / Positioned on a high dive,” Wainscott writes in the book’s pressurized couplets that balance a tender vulnerability alongside wolfish, piercing ferocity. The Star Cabinsis a sonically brilliant and formally daring inquiry into death and what it means to accompany the dying, to endure absence, and to recognize “A good life that’s slow / And over at the right time // Belongs not even to the clouds.”
In Andrea Rexilius’ collection of poetry, collage, and nonfiction prose, Séance of the Bees summons the flight patterns of image and text as they move oracularly across collective grief, histories, mouths, rivers, and memory. Taking the planchette as tongue, this work proclaims “I sought to enter her archive. / To lean up against an embankment of self.” It speaks to the singular and multiple simultaneously via a lens of ice, the rhizome, a flower, the hive, and of course, the bees. Through vivid artwork and melodic prose, Andrea Rexilius does a close study on craft and self: interrogating where one ends and the other begins. Stemming from mythology and bee shamanism, this collection engages with themes of grief, drag queens, and family history, all the while staying rooted in ecological feminism.