The Writer’s Center welcomes poet jason b. crawford for a reading from their new, award winning collection, YEET! jason is joined by poet Abi Pollokoff reading from her debut collection night myths • • before the body. 

FREE & open to the public. RSVP here.

jason b. crawford (They/He) born in Washington, DC, and raised in Lansing, MI, is the author of Year of the Unicorn Kidz. Their second collection, YEET! is the winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize and will be published Fall 2025. They have been published in POETRY Magazine, Academy of American Poets, Cincinnati Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and RHINO Poetry, among others. They are a 2023 Emerging Writers Fellow for Lambda Literary and hold their MFA in Poetry from The New School.

Abi Pollokoff is the author of night myths • • before the body (Red Hen Press, 2025). A Pushcart-nominated poet, her poems can be found in TriQuarterly, The Pinch, The Seventh Wave, and Radar, where she was a finalist for the Coniston Prize. Abi was a 2024 AWP Writer to Writer mentee and has been supported by organizations such as the Jack Straw Cultural Center and Hugo House. The former events manager for Open Books: A Poem Emporium, she now serves as the managing editor for Poetry NW Editions and works in publishing. Find her at abipollokoff.com.