Laynie Browne, India Radfar, Jen/Eleana Hofer
Wednesday, July 8
Doors: 7pm
Reading: 7:30pm
at 2220 Arts+Archives
On Wednesday, July 8, the PRB welcomes Laynie Browne to the bureau, whose recent books of poetry include Antediluvian Sonnets (Third Hand Books, 2026) and Apprentice to a Breathing Hand (Omnidawn, 2025). Joining Laynie: poets India Radfar and Jen/Eleana Hofer.
Antediluvian Sonnets sets out to reflect and refract the ways that time is constantly bent, especially through elegy. This book is also a love letter and homage text, tracing the lineage of experiments received from one mother of the modern sonnet, Bernadette Mayer. Loss is ageless, and transmutes the notion of any life being linear. Form is another way to consider time, another way for the ancient to become the future.
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Laynie Browne's recent books of poetry include: Antediluvian Sonnets (Third Hand Books, 2026), Apprentice to a Breathing Hand (Omnidawn, 2025), Everyone &Her Resemblances (Pamenar, 2024), Intaglio Daughters (Ornithopter 2023), and Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists (Wave Books, 2022) ). She co-edited the anthology I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press) and edited the anthology A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet’s Novel (Nightboat). Honors include a Pew Fellowship, the National Poetry Series Award for The Scented Fox, and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award for Drawing of a Swan Before Memory. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
India Radfar lives in Los Angeles. She is currently working on the novel Aegean Moon, an account of becoming a poet, and the novella Woman in Love, based on D.H. Lawrence’s novel Women in Love (which is known, by some accounts, to be Anais Nin’s favorite book.) Her books of poetry include the desire to meet with the beautiful, Tender Buttons Press; India Poem, Pir Press; Breathe, Shivastan Publications; and Position & Relation, Station Hill Press.
Jen/Eleana Hofer is a poet, translator, social justice interpreter, educator, facilitator, DIY bookmaker, and urban cyclist who lives on unceded Tongva lands and actively dreams toward a free Palestine and an end to all forms of apartheid. They publish poems, translations, and visual-textual works with small independent presses and in DIY/DIT incarnations. J/E’s work is a garden that thrives at the intersections of language justice, disability justice, and expansions of what poems can be and do.