Maybe Sometimes: A Reading
With Jo Barchi, Ted Dodson, Kristen Gallagher, Matt Longabucco, and Caroline Rayner
About the event
Join us for Maybe Sometimes: a reading of poetry, laughter, and possibly going Coyote Ugly, featuring Ted Dodson, Kristen Gallagher, Matt Longabucco, and out-of-towners Jo Barchi and Caroline Rayner.
About the readers
Jo Barchi is a writer and editor living in Chicago. They are an editor at Joyland Editions and the author of Natural Wine (Spiral Editions, 2025).
Ted Dodson is the author of An Orange (Pioneer Works/Wonder, 2021) and co-translator of Two Poems by Jaime Saenz (Action Books, 2026). He is a contributing editor for BOMB, an editor-at-large for Futurepoem, and a former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter.
Kristen Gallagher is the author of 85% True/Minor Ecologies (Skeleton Man, 2017), Grand Central (Troll Thread, 2016), and We Are Here (Truck Books, 2011). She lives a bi-regional life between Queens, New York, and Norristown, Pennsylvania.
Matt Longabucco is the author of the poetry collections The Hummingbird (Nightboat Books, forthcoming 2026) and Heroic (Golias Books, 2024), as well as M/W: An Essay on Jean Eustache's La Maman Et La Putain (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021), a book-length study of a landmark of French cinema and its creator.
Caroline Rayner is the author of THE MOAN WILDS (Shabby Doll House, 2023) and, with Miri Karraker, DAWN NOON DUSK MIDNIGHT (Spiral Editions, 2025). She grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and currently lives and works in western Massachusetts, where she hosts a weekly free form radio show called Spirit Ditch.