Poets Jibade-Khalil Huffman and Jared Harel will be reading from their work on Saturday, September 20 at 7:00 PM. The reading will take place at No Radio Records, 312 East Seneca Street in downtown Ithaca. The reading is free and open to the public.

Jibade-Khalil Huffman is the author of 19 Names For Our Band (Fence Books, 2008). His poetry, fiction, and photography have appeared in Boston Review, NOON, Canarium, Encyclopedia, Court Green, and Aufgabe, among others. His awards include the Grolier Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Ucross Foundation. A graduate of Bard College and Brown University, he lives in New York where he works as an art handler and maintains a blog (everybook.blogspot.com) chronicling rap videos he likes and every book he has read since January 2006. He is at work on a novel.

Jared Harel is a recent graduate of Cornell's MFA program. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in such literary journals as the New York Quarterly, California Quarterly, RATTLE, RHINO, Notre Dame Review, Apalachee Review and Harpur Palate. He also plays drums for the NYC-based rock band, Heywood