Presenting innovative and small-press poetry in downtown Ithaca,
(usually) Second Saturday of (nearly) every month at
NO RADIO RECORDS, 312 E. Seneca St., Ithaca, NY

SOON readings are made possible in part with public funds from the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County / NYS Council on the Arts Decentralization Program. They are free and open to the public.

Poets Jill Magi and Jennifer Firestone will be reading from their work at No Radio Records, 312 E. Seneca St. in downtown Ithaca on Saturday, July 26 at 7:00 PM. The reading is free and open to the public.

Jill Magi is the author of Threads (Futurepoem 2007), Torchwood (Shearsman 2008), and Cadastral Map (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs 2005). New chapbooks, From the Body Project and Looking, A Way, are forthcoming from Felt Press and 2nd Avenue Press this summer. Her visual work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She teaches at Eugene Lang College of the New School and Goddard College and runs Sona Books, a chapbook press.

Jennifer Firestone is the co-editor of Letters To Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community, forthcoming in October from Saturnalia Books. She is the author of Holiday (published by Shearsman Books), Waves (published by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and From Flashes and snapshot (both published by Sona Books). Her work has appeared in HOW2, LUNGFULL!, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Fourteen Hills, MIPOesias Magazine, Dusie, 580 Split, Saint Elizabeth Street and others. She is the Poet in Residence at Eugene Lang College (The New School For Liberal Arts), and she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their infant twins.

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  • Karen Anderson
  • Theo Hummer
  • Ron Henry
  • Fred Muratori
  • Seth Perlow

SOON Emeriti:

  • Joshua Corey
  • Aaron Tieger

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