This exhibition features artworks by local individuals who, although past the usually accepted retirement date, possess the passion to communicate their continuing creativty. Guest-curated by Gary Sojka. Presented in collaboration with the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts.

This exhibition features artworks by local individuals who, although past the usually accepted retirement date, possess the passion to communicate their continuing creativty. Guest-curated by Gary Sojka. Presented in collaboration with the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts.

WEST BRANCH ReadingArman Chowdhury, Tobi Kassim, Michelle Mariano, Talin TahajianThursday, August 29, 7pm, Bucknell HallWest Branch contributors and editors join us to celebrate the launch of West Branch 106, Fall 2024.Arman Chowdhury is the Associate Fiction Editor for West Branch. His fiction-writing has been supported by the Tin House Summer Workshop and the Loft Literary Center, which awarded him a year-long fellowship to work on his novel.Tobi Kassim's poems appear in Poem-A-Day, The Volta, Brooklyn Review, Four Way Review, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. An alumni of the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, he is the Associate Poetry Editor of West Branch.Michelle Mariano is part-time faculty in Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Outside of academia, she serves as the managing director of ArtWorks for Freedom, a DC-based arts activism nonprofit.Talin Tahajian is Ph.D. student in English at Yale and an assistant editor of The Yale Review. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Best New Poets, The Drift, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, Triquarterly, and elsewhere.