Poetry Reading: Claire Farley, Julie Morrissy, Danny Snelson, Brian Kim Stefans
DATE: Saturday, January 24 | Doors 7:00 PM | Reading 7:30 PM
Join Bu Tea Den for a night of tea and poetry.
This is a pay-what-you-can event with a $20 suggested ticket price. RSVP now and PWYC at the event.
Saturday, January 24 | 7PM–9PM
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Claire Farley is a literary critic, poet, and editor from Québec. She lives in Los Angeles where she is a SSHRC postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of English at UCLA. Her poems have recently been published by The Capilano Review, Dialogist, and Grain. Her first chapbook, Bait & Switch, was published by Anstruther Press in 2020. She is the co-founder of the literary magazine Canthius and the reviews editor for ASAP/Review.
Julie Morrissy is an Irish poet, academic, and critic. She is a 2025-26 Fulbright Fellow at UC Berkeley. Her first collection of poetry, Where, the Mile End, was published in 2019 by Book*hug (Canada) and tall-lighthouse (UK). From 2021-2022, she was the first Poet-in-Residence at the National Library of Ireland. In her role, she created and hosted the Radical! Women and the Irish Revolution podcast series. Her pamphlet by the same name is a collection of poetry, photographs, maps, translation, and research notes showcasing her work from the residency. In 2023, she published a collaborative Irish translation of the pamphlet. Her poems are published in Poetry Ireland Review (IE), Cyphers (IE), The Irish Times (IE), Magma Poetry (UK), Rose Books Hotline (US) and elsewhere. Morrissy’s poetry-artworks have been exhibited at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, the Museum of Literature Ireland, and acquired for the Ireland State Art Collection.
Daniel Scott Snelson is a writer, editor, and archivist working as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of English and Design Media Arts at UCLA. His most recent book, The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats (University of Minnesota Press, 2025), examines the networked afterlives of media-reflexive works of art and letters. Other recent published books works include Elden Poem (Hysterically Real, 2022), Full Bleed: A Mourning Letter for the Printed Page (Sync, 2019), Apocalypse Reliquary: 1984-2000 (Monoskop, 2018), and Radios (Make Now, 2016). With Mashinka Firunts Hakopian and Avi Alpert, he performs as one-third of the academic performance group Research Service.
Brian Kim Stefans teaches poetry, new media, and screenplay studies in the UCLA English department. His latest books are For Trapped Things (poems, 2023), Festivals of Patience: The Verse Poems of Rimbaud (2021) and Word Toys: Poetry and Technics (2017). His website is arras.net.
✨ For the Afternoon:
🔮 The Installation: Bu Tea Den is the permanent home of Paisley ID. During the event, you are invited to consult one of the AFTM (Automated Fortune Telling Machine) 🏧. This repurposed ATM uses numerology and chakra theory to generate an energy portrait and a personalized fortune ticket to take home.
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