Hi Zero presents number fifty-nine, our fifty-ninth reading, featuring readings by the following poets:

Lisa Sewell is the author of Impossible Object, which won the 2014 Tenth Gate prize from The Word Works, as well as The Way Out (Alice James Books) Name Withheld (Four Way Books), and Long Corridor, which received the 2009 Keystone Chapbook award from Seven Kitchens Press. She is also co-editor, with Claudia Rankine, of American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (Wesleyan 2007) and Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics Across North America (Wesleyan 2012). She has received grants and awards from the Leeway Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, and held residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Fundacion Valparaiso and The Tyrone Guthrie Center. Recent work is appearing or forthcoming in Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Salamander, Crab Orchard Review and Prairie Schooner. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Villanova University.

Rob Kiely is a writer living in London. His chapbooks include How to Read (Crater, 2017) and Killing the Cop in Your Head (Sad, 2017). His critical writing can be found in Journal of Modern Literature, The Parish Review, and Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui. A book, Incommensurables: Irish Poetry and the Financial Crisis, is forthcoming from punctum in 2018.

Michael Jonik teaches American literature at the University of Sussex. He has recently published a literary critical-philosophical book called Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and writes on American literature, poetics, contemporary philosophy, and the history of science.

Music from a thing, books, a bar, and discussion. Bring all your friends.

All taking place upstairs at the Hope & Ruin, Brighton. Doors at 7:30pm for an 8:00pm start. £3 for all.

Many thanks to those of you who came last month and donated to the UCU Sussex Strike Fund - we raised £50 for the fund.