Back to School Bash: A Book Party Celebrating the Release of “Dispatches from Frontier Schools”

Join poet Sarah Beddow for a back-to-school bash to celebrate the release of her book “Dispatches form Frontier Schools.” Play a variety of poetry games and earn raffle tickets to win a series of school-themed prizes, including an emotional support mug stuffed with pens and post-its, a novelty teacher sweater, and a set of enamel pins to add some flair to your complimentary Frontier Schools lanyard.

Readers include Sarah, Margaret Bashaar, Halsey Hyer, and Nsai Temko. Books for the poets will be available for purchase at the party. Pizza and homemade cupcakes will be served. Beer and other beverages can be purchased at the bar.

About the Readers:

Sarah Beddow is a poet, teacher, wife and mother. Her first full-length collection, Dispatches from Frontier Schools, is forthcoming from Riot in Your Throat this August. She is also the author of the chapbook What’s pink & shiny/what’s dark and hard (Porkbelly Press), and her work has appeared in Bone Bouquet, Menacing Hedge, Entropy, GlitterMOB, and elsewhere. Once upon a time, she studied writing at Johns Hopkins University. And then she studied it again at Sarah Lawrence College. After completing her MFA in poetry, she became a New York City Teaching Fellow, teaching special education in a large high school in the Bronx and earning her MS in Urban Education from Mercy College. Find her online at impolitelines.com.

Margaret Bashaar is the author of the poetry collection Stationed Near the Gateway from Sundress Publications and the founding editor of Hyacinth Girl Press. In a past life she helped instigate arts events like The TypewriterGirls and FREE POEMS, but lately has found herself enjoying quieter pursuits like hiking, quilting, and bothering her cat Gus and her hamster Dandelion.

Halsey Hyer (they/them) is the author of the micro-chapbook of micro-poems Everything Becomes Bananas (Rinky Dink Press, 2022) and forthcoming chapbook, [deadname] (Anhinga Press, 2022), winner of the 2022 Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. They’re currently earning their MFA in Creative Writing as the 2022-2024 Margaret L. Whitford Fellow at Chatham University. They were a Creative Writing MFA candidate at Florida International University where they taught in the Creative Writing and Writing & Rhetoric programs. They’re an Editorial Assistant for Seven Kitchens Press, collective member of The Big Idea Bookstore, and the Events Coordinator at White Whale Bookstore. Their work can be found or is forthcoming in The Boiler, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere. Find out more—www.halseyhyer.org.

Nsai Temko is a senior at Emory University. They are the author “Naturan,” a web comic that integrates knowledge from their self-designed major focusing on teaching Earth Stewardship through engaging narratives, specifically in comics. Via interdisciplinary study, they designed a non-linear guide to teaching people Earth Stewardship called the H.E.A.R.T.U. method. In addition to bettering students through attentive education, Nsai participates in activism relating to LGBT+ and black social justice. They perform Spoken Word, create zines, and participate in protests focused on achieving human rights for all humans. All in all, they want to grab the world and shake it by its core.