Poetry Reading with BAC Residency Alumni Emily Hockaday & Nicole Callihan

Join us November 19, 2022 3-5 PM  as we welcome back 2022 & 2021 BAC Poetry Residency Alumni Emily Hockaday and Nicole Callihan for an afternoon of poetry reading and Q&A. Featuring excerpts from Hockaday’s first full-length collection, Naming The Ghost and Callihan’s upcoming 2023 release, This Strange Garment. 

Artist Biographies: 

Emily Hockaday’s first full-length collection of poetry—Naming the Ghost—was published in September 2022 by Cornerstone Press. Her second collection In a Body is forthcoming October 2023 from Small Harbor Publishing. Emily lives in Queens and is the author of five chapbooks, most recently Beach Vocabulary from Red Bird Chaps. Her zine titled Name this Body was published August 2022 by Thrash Press. Emily’s poems appear in numerous print and online journals as well as a selection of anthologies. You can find her on the web at www.emilyhockaday.com and tweeting @E_Hockaday. 

Nicole Callihan’s This Strange Garment will be published by Terrapin Books in 2023. Her other books include SuperLoop and the poetry chapbooks: The Deeply Flawed Human, Downtown, and ELSEWHERE (with Zoë Ryder White), as well as the novella, The Couples. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Conduit, The American Poetry Review, and as a Poem-a-Day selection from the Academy of American Poets. Find out more at www.nicolecallihan.com.