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Wayward Creatures Book Launch: A Poetry Reading & Community Gathering
August 30, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
✦ We are thrilled to celebrate the launch of the poetry collection Wayward Creatures by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes! Join us for a celebratory evening featuring poetry readings by Cloud Delfina Cardona, ignacio carvajal, and heidi andrea restrepo rhodes; a moderated Q & A session; giveaways, refreshments, and poetic ecstasy ensue! Hosted by Host Publications editors Annar Veröld-Miranda & Claire Bowman!
In Wayward Creatures, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes offers poems as portals into a “wilderness of intimacies” where the crip marvelous, the sacred profane, and trans love emerge in an ecstatic throng. With a poetics that resists taxonomy, many voices surge through this collection. They speak us new names, and urge us toward vibrant becomings.
✦ Host Publications is an award-winning, women-led independent publisher located in Austin, Texas. Devoted to our mission to elevate historically marginalized writers, Host Publications publishes radical poetry and fiction by emerging LGBTQ+, BIPOC, intersectional feminist, and immigrant voices.
✦ Free & open to all lovers of literature.
✦ There will be small bites and light refreshments
✦ Health and safety note: masks are encouraged and will be provided.
