Join us for a reading featuring Abraham Smith, author of Surgencies (Baobab Press, 2026) and Steve Timm, author of Rule of Composition: Poems Written to the Cecil Taylor Feel Trio’s 2 Ts for a Lovely T.

Abraham Smith was raised around Ladysmith, WI, and lives in Ogden, Utah, where he is associate professor of English and co-director of Creative Writing at Weber State University. His recent poetry collections include Surgencies (Baobab Press, 2026), One Warm Morning (Stubborn Mule Press, 2025), Insomniac Sentinel (Baobab Press, 2023), and Dear Weirdo (Propeller Books, 2022). Away from his desk, Smith improvises poems inside songs with the Snarlin' Yarns: thesnarlinyarnsut.bandcamp.com.

Steve Timm is a poet and sound poet in Madison, WI. He is the author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which is Rule of Composition: Poems Written to the Cecil Taylor Feel Trio’s 2 Ts for a Lovely T, as well as several chapbooks.

Reading: Abraham Smith and Steve Timm