Join us for an evening of readings with Joe Safdie, Sam Lohmann, and Rodney Koeneke.

Sam Lohmann is a parent, poet, academic librarian, and occasional translator living in Vancouver, Washington. He is a co-organizer of Portland's long-running Spare Room reading series and co-publisher (with David Abel) of Airfoil Chapbooks. He is the author of several books and chapbooks, most recently Poems for Shy Communists (Airfoil, 2025).

Rodney Koeneke is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Body & Glass and Etruria, both from Wave Books. His work has appeared in Chicago Review, Granta, Harper's, Jacket2, Poetry and elsewhere. Since 2007 he's worked as a history professor in Portland, OR.

Joe Safdie’s most recent books are Greek To Me (Chax Press), a selected poems featuring Greek mythology, and Poetry and Heresy (MadHat), a collection of literary essays. For the last two years he’s been attending a William Blake study group and assembling a manuscript of poems about Blake called Organized Innocence. He’s been living in SW Portland since 2019.