This event will feature readings by
Ryan Eckes
Allison Whittenberg

Hosted by Brooke Palma. An open mic will follow.

Barnaby’s West Chester
15 S. High St.
West Chester PA 19382

Ryan Eckes is a poet from Philadelphia. He is the author of General Motors (Split Lip Press 2018), which can be downloaded free from Internet Archive, and the chapbooks Fine Nothing (Albion Books 2019), Wet Money (Radical Paper Press 2020), and Old Light (Radiator Press 2022). His poems have appeared recently in Prolit, Protean Magazine, Wax Nine Journal, Tripwire, and The New York Times Magazine. Eckes has worked as an adjunct professor and labor organizer in education, and he is the editor of Radiator Press. He was the recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2016.

Allison Whittenberg won the John Steinbeck Writing Award, Judith Siegel Pearson Award, and several Pushcart Prize nominations. Her novels include Sweet Thang, Hollywood and Maine, Life is Fine, Tutored through Random House. Her collection of short stories Carnival of Reality and novella Sane Asylum were published by Apprentice Press.  She currently teaches creative writing in Drexel University's MFA program.