Poetry & Music by Matthew Klane / Thea Brown / Sylvia Jones / Rod Smith

Wednesday November 11 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS Matthew Klane , poet, collage artist, and songwriter, is graduate of both the Buffalo Poetics program (M.A.) and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (M.F.A.). He’s the co-founder and longtime co-editor of (the now defunct) Film Forum Press. His own books of poetry include Of the Day (2025), Hist (w/ James Belflower, 2022), Canyons (w/ James Belflower, 2016), Che (2013), and B (2008). In 2025, after a transition into songwriting, Klane released his first record, Too Little Too Late , and his second record, Sunshine Committee , was released in March of 2026. Thea Brown is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Loner Forensics (Northwestern University Press 2023). Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in River Styx, Oversound, LitHub, and elsewhere. She lives in Baltimore and teaches creative writing at the George Washington University. Sylvia Jones lives in Baltimore, MD, and teaches creative writing at George Washington University. She is poetry editor for Black Lawrence Press—and senior reader for the journal, Ploughshares. Her debut collection —Television Fathers (Meekling Press, 2024) was published last fall. Its follow-up, Dope Callisthenics—is forthcoming from Relegation Books. Rod Smith is the author of Touché (Wave, 2015), Deed (U. Iowa, 2007), Music or Honesty (Roof, 2003), and The Good House (Spectacular Books, 2001). He edits the journal Aerial , publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC. He has taught at The Iowa Writers' Workshop, The Maryland Institute College of Art, and The Corcoran College of Art + Design.