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Wednesday, October 20, Chris Martin is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, Things to Do In Hell (Coffee House Press, 2020), and the recipient of grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. He is the co-founder and executive director of Unrestricted Interest, an organization dedicated to helping neurodivergent learners transform their lives through writing. He lives in Minneapolis, where he professes at Hamline University and Carleton College.
He will be joined by Sid Ghosh is a nonspeaking Autistic poet with Down Syndrome. He is a rebel in pursuit of other similar souls and he is interested in rescuing poets from the quiet clutches of rhyme. One of Sid’s essays has been published in the book Leaders Around Me. Sid’s first chapbook is forthcoming from Push Press.