Poetry Reading at Mount Florida Books
Join the87press and host Jessica Widner at Mount Florida Books on Thursday 19th March for a poetry reading evening featuring Emily Lee Luan, Megan Pinto and Annie Wenstrup!
About Poetry Reading at Mount Florida Books
Join us for a night of Poetry readings hosted by Jessica Widner. We're very happy to welcome Emily Lee Luan, Megan Pinto and Annie Wenstrup to Glasgow for this event which is organised by one of MF Books fave publishers. the87press is a radical publishing collective and home for countercultural, hybrid, and experimental works of poetry, prose, and non-fiction from racialised, neurodivergent, queer, and working class authors.
Emily Lee Luan is the author of 回 / Return, a winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and forthcoming with the87press in the UK, and I Watch the Boughs (2021), selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2021, American Poetry Review, Lithub, and elsewhere. She teaches at Adelphi University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Megan Pinto is the author of Saints of Little Faith, published by the87press (2025, UK) and Four Way Books (2024,US). Her poems can be found in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ploughshares, Lit Hub and elsewhere. She has won the Anne Halley Prize from the Massachusetts Review and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers, as well as scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference and Storyknife. Megan lives in Brooklyn and holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College.
Annie Wenstrup (Dena’ina) is the author of The Museum of Unnatural Histories and a 2025 Whiting Award recipient. She held a Museum Sovereignty Fellowship with the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center (Alaska office) supported through a Journey to What Matters grant from The CIRI Foundation, and was an Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow in 2022 and 2023. Her poems have been published in Ecotone, New England Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She received her BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and her MFA from Stonecoast, the University of Southern Maine's low-residency MFA program. She lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Jessica Widner is a writer and academic. Her debut novel, Interiors, was released in 2022 by the87press. Her short fiction has appeared in Extra Teeth, Gutter Magazine and Ludd Gang. She teaches English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde.
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