Deep Vellum presents KB Brookins with local features Daniel Garcia and courtney marie in celebration of the release of KB's chapbook! Doors at 7pm; event to begin at 7:30pm.

KB's chapbook, How to Identify with a Wound, was selected as the winner of the 2021 Saguaro Poetry Prize from Kallisto-Gaia Press by ire'ne lara silva. KB is a poet, essayist, cultural worker, and Artivism Fellow with Broadway Advocacy Coalition. They are the author of Freedom House (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023). KB is a 2021 PEN America Emerging Voices fellow and an African American Leadership Institute - Austin fellow. Follow them online at @earthtokb.

Daniel Garcia's essays appear or are forthcoming in SLICE, Ninth Letter, Guernica, Passages North, The Offing, The Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. Poems appear or are forthcoming in The Puritan, The Arkansas International, Ploughshares, Zone 3, Gulf Coast, and others. A recipient of awards, prizes, grants, and scholarships from Bat City Review, So to Speak, Tin House, PEN America, and others, Daniel is a former prose intern for GASHER Journal and reader for Frontier Poetry. Daniel’s essays also appear as Notables in The Best American Essays. Daniel tweets @daniellovesyooh.

courtney marie is a writer & artist based in denton, texas. they are the author of don’t get your hopes up (2018, Thoughtcrime Press) and songs we used to dance today, now available for preorder from Goliad Media. cm enjoys making weird & sentimental art with/for their community, exploring the world, and playing pinball. they live with two three cats, cry all the time, and are forever writing letters & sending snail mail in a desperate attempt to connect with the outside world. cm is the co-founder & director of the artist collective spiderweb salon.