White Whale Bookstore is delighted to partner up with local press Autumn House in order to celebrate their fall 2021 poetry releases! We’ll be joined by poets Shayla Lawz, author of speculation, n.; Natalie Homer, author of Under the Broom Tree; Carly Inghram, author of The Animal Indoors; and Sean Cho A., author of American Home!

You can order speculation, Under the Broom Tree, The Animal Indoors, and American Home on our website! Check out our site hereto view all of our upcoming events and local partnerships, purchase books directly from our inventory, and place orders for books we don't currently have in stock.

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This event will be hosted on Zoom. You'll receive the link to the Zoom meeting the day of the event via email. Free registration/ticket sales will end at 6:30pm ET on 10/24. Please email events@whitewhalebookstore.com if you miss this cut-off and need a ticket. For questions, check out our FAQ for events here.

About Autumn House Press:

Autumn House Press is a nonprofit, literary publisher based in Pittsburgh, PA. We publish full-length collections of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. We believe literature is an affirmation of the deep and elemental range of our human experience, and our need for it is as crucial now as it ever has been. Autumn House is committed to publishing first books and lesser-known authors who will become the important voices of their generation as well as the prominent writers of our age. We pledge to edit this work with devotion and care and to create beautiful books that are worthy of it.

About these writers:

Shayla Lawz is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from Jersey City, NJ. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Aster(ix), McSweeney’s Quarterly, and The Poetry Project, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, where she teaches in the Humanities and Media Studies Department at Pratt Institute. speculation, n. is her first book.

Natalie Homer’s poetry has been published in The Boiler, Cincinnati Review, Carolina Quarterly, Berkeley Poetry Review, Meridian, Barnstorm, The Pinch, and elsewhere. Originally from Idaho, she now lives in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, where she is a parish administrator of an Episcopal church.

Carly Inghram is a poet from Atlanta. She received an MFA in poetry from Columbia University. Her work is featured in The Indianapolis Review, Prelude, and elsewhere. Her debut collection, Sometimes the Blue Trees, was released from Vegetarian Alcoholic Press in 2019. She currently lives in Manhattan and teaches Kindergarten in the Bronx.

Sean Cho A. is an MFA candidate and graduate instructor at the University of California, Irvine. He has published in Pleiades, the Massachusetts Review, Penn Review, Ninth Letter, and Nashville Review, among others.