The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is pleased to welcome poets Brian Tierney, Aria Aber, and Ari Banias for a live-stream reading and discussion on their new collections. Audience Q&A to follow reading. This event is free and open to the public, with registration. Book sales are encouraged through the Midtown Scholar Bookstore.

To purchase a copy (with signed bookplate) of RISE AND FLOAT by Brian Tierney, follow this link.

To purchase a copy of HARD DAMAGE by Aria Aber, follow this link.

To purchase a copy of A SYMMETRY by Ari Banias, follow this link.

About the Speakers:

Brian Tierney is the author of Rise and Float, which was selected by Randall Mann as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize. His poetry and prose have appeared in or are forthcoming in the Paris Review, AGNI, the Kenyon Review, the New England Review, the Adroit Journal, and others. A graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, he is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford and winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2018 George Bogin Memorial Award. He grew up in Philadelphia and currently lives in Oakland, where he teaches poetry at The Writing Salon.

Ari Banias is the author of Anybody, a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Poetry. His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review,Poetry, and the Nation, among other publications. He lives in Oakland, California.

Aria Aber is a Ron Wallace Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, the New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Narrative, and other publications.