Booksmith is thrilled to host an event to celebrate the new issue of ZYZZYVA, #123: The Poetry Issue. Join us for an evening of readings by contributors Victoria Chang, Colin Winnette, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Troy Jollimore & Heather Altfeld.

*** PLEASE NOTE: advanced sales for this event have ended. We have some seats remaining, which will go on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors are at 7pm PDT. Please note all of the following:

Please note:

• Safety: ID and proof of full vaccination, including booster, will be required at the door. Masks will be required throughout the duration of the event, capacity will be limited to allow indoor distancing, and we'll have extra ventilation in place. 
• Because we’re limiting capacity, we can't guarantee we'll have space for walk-ins. The best way to ensure you’ll get a seat is to order a ticket through this link.
• If we feel it is not safe to gather, as the event gets closer, we will pivot to a virtual event and your registration will remain valid.
• Questions? Write events@booksmith.com.

About the authors

Colin Winnette is the author of Revelation, Animal Collection, Fondly, Coyote, Haints Stay, and The Job of the Wasp, an American Bookseller Association’s Indie Next Pick. His novel Users is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in February 2023.

Victoria Chang's new book of poetry is The Trees Witness Everything (Copper Canyon Press). Her nonfiction book, Dear Memory (Milkweed Editions), was published in 2021. OBIT (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. It was also longlisted for a National Book Award and named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and lives in Los Angeles and is a faculty member within Antioch's low-residency MFA Program. Author photo by Jay L. Clendenin.

Ingrid Rojas Contreras' first novel, Fruit of the Drunken Tree, was the Silver Medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards and a New York Times Editor's Choice. Her memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, was just published by Doubleday in July.

Heather Altfeld is a poet and essayist. Her two books of poetry are "Post-Mortem" (Orison Books, April 2021) and "The Disappearing Theatre" (Poets at Work, 2016). Her work is featured in the 2019 Best American Essays, Orion Magazine, Aeon Magazine, Zyzzyva, Narrative Magazine, and others.  She teaches in the Department of Comparative Religion and Humanities and the Honors Program at CSU Chico. 

Troy Jollimore's poetry collections include Earthly Delights, Syllabus of Errors, and Tom Thomson in Purgatory, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Please note:

• Safety: ID and proof of full vaccination, including booster, will be required at the door. Masks will be required throughout the duration of the event, capacity will be limited to allow indoor distancing, and we'll have extra ventilation in place. 
• Because we’re limiting capacity, we can't guarantee we'll have space for walk-ins. The best way to ensure you’ll get a seat is to order a ticket through this link.
• If we feel it is not safe to gather, as the event gets closer, we will pivot to a virtual event and your registration will remain valid.
• Questions? Write events@booksmith.com.