Jan
16
6:00 PM18:00

Variety Show: And Now...Featuring:

And Now...Featuring: is a monthly variety show that features local artists of all kinds. Poets, Music makers, Comedians, Dancers, Performance Artists...

Come early for the open jam session from 6-6:30pm (bring an instrument, borrow one!)

Then, stay for the Variety Show from 6:30-8!

Hosted by Aimee Herman

For more info or to feature for an upcoming month, email: aimeeherman@gmail.com

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Jan
21
6:30 PM18:30

Single Player: A Reading with Tara Tai

Two video game creators go head-to-head in this delightful, queer enemies-to-lovers workplace romance debut. Set in Boulder, Colorado!

Cat Li cares about two things: video games and swoony romances. The former means there hasn't been much of the latter in her (real) life, but when she lands her dream job writing the love storylines for Compass Hollow—the next big thing in games—she knows it’s all been worth it. Then she meets her boss: the infamous Andi Zhang, who’s not only an arrogant hater of happily-ever-afters determined to keep Cat from doing her job but also impossibly, annoyingly hot. 

As Compass Hollow’s narrative director, Andi couldn’t care less about love—in-game or out. After getting doxxed by internet trolls three years ago, Andi’s been trying to prove to the gaming world that they’re a serious gamedev. Their plan includes writing the best game possible, with zero lovey-dovey stuff. That is, until the man funding the game’s development insists Andi add romance in order to make the story “more appealing to female gamers.” 

Forced to give Cat a chance, Andi begrudgingly realizes there’s more to Cat than romantic idealism and, okay, a cute smile. But admitting that would mean giving up the single-player life that has kept their heart safe for years. And when Cat uncovers a behind-the-scenes plan to destroy Andi’s career, the two will have to put their differences aside and find a way to work together before it’s game over.


Bio:

Tara Tai is an Asian American writer living in Boston, where they spend most of their time playing TTRPGs and romancing video game NPCs. When they're not lost in imaginary worlds, they are annoying their wife Audrey and dog Gingko. Single Player is their debut novel.

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Jan
28
6:30 PM18:30

Trident Author Series: Sarito Carroll

Tuesday January 28th at 6:30PM

Shadows of Enlightenment

Author Bio:
Sarito Carroll is a passionate memoirist who, at nine years old, joined the tumultuous Osho Rajneesh movement in the late 1970s. With a unique perspective shaped by her experiences growing up within a spiritual community, Sarito’s writing explores the complexities of belonging, trauma, the struggle to break free from cultic ties, and the long journey toward self-acceptance.

Her debut memoir, In the Shadows of Enlightenment, captures her efforts to reconcile a past filled with both joy and pain, attachment and rage, as she seeks to reclaim her voice after decades of silence. Through themes of resilience, group dynamics, and self reflection, Sarito's work resonates with anyone who has faced an unconventional upbringing or childhood trauma.

Now residing in Boulder, Colorado, Sarito is committed to telling the truth, even when it may be painful for others. When not writing, she works as an acupuncturist and Realtor. Outside of work, she enjoys long walks, listening to music, and taking time to unplug from the world.

About the Book:
In the Shadow of Enlightenment is the gripping story of Carroll’s childhood inside the Osho Rajneesh cult—one of the most controversial spiritual movements of the 20th century. While in the commune, Sarito was submerged in a world where devotion and freedom clashed with manipulation, sexual misconduct, and neglect. This was the life she knew until the movement collapsed amid scandal and criminal charges in 1985, when sixteen-year-old Sarito was thrust into a society she knew little about.

In 1978, nine-year-old Sarito Carroll’s life took an unexpected turn when her mother brought her to India to visit the ashram of guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (later known as Osho). What was intended to be a brief trip over her summer vacation quickly became permanent when her mother decided they would stay and join the ashram. Three years later, when Rajneesh relocated to the United States, twelve-year-old Sarito arrived alone to Oregon, becoming one of the first thirty-five settlers at what would become Rajneeshpuram—a bold and controversial city built on the Big Muddy Ranch. The commune soon attracted thousands of devotees, lured by the guru’s promises of love, spiritual enlightenment, and a utopian society free from conventional constraints.

Now, decades later, after battling shame, fear, and self-doubt, Sarito breaks her silence to expose the abuse, exploitation, and disillusionment she endured in the Rajneesh community. She stands up against this formidable spiritual institution that promised liberation while concealing dark secrets behind its facade of love and joy. With raw honesty and heart-wrenching clarity, she recounts her fight to reclaim her identity, confront the community’s betrayal, and heal on her own terms. It is a powerful story of survival, resilience, courage, and hard-won freedom.

In the Shadow of Enlightenment is a profoundly moving exposé about the hidden dangers lurking behind charismatic leaders and spiritual movements. It will inspire and challenge you to question where you place your trust.

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Feb
4
6:30 PM18:30

Trident Author Series: Nathan Schneider with Yessica Holguin (Center for Community Wealth Building) and Minsun Ji (Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center/Drivers Co-op Colorado)

Tuesday February 4th at 630PM  

Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation

Our problems are global and interconnected, and our solutions must be too. The stories featured in this new anthology amplify ancestral and community wisdom to help us all imagine a different way of doing things. With over 70 contributors, this toolbox of collective wisdom and know-how shows us that another world is not only possible, it’s already under construction.

Co-editor Nathan Schneider, a professor of media studies at CU Boulder, will introduce the book. He'll be joined by leaders in the Colorado solidarity economy, who will talk about their work and how you can get involved in building a more just and sustainable economy.

https://beautifultrouble.org/beautifulsolutions

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Feb
7
6:00 PM18:00

Unicorn Hits

Unicorn hits is a queer-driven 4-piece rock and roll tapestry from the 14th century. From dark ballads to chugging riffs, weird sounds escape through shrapnel guitars and a roiling double-drummer rhythm section. Sometimes they are quiet, if you ask nicely...

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Feb
11
6:30 PM18:30

Trident Author/Poet Series: Andrea Rexilius

Collage! Poetry! Séance! Join us for an evening of poetry with Andrea Rexilius.

Tuesday February 11th at 630PM

Andrea Rexilius is the author of: Sister Urn (Sidebrow, 2019), New Organism: Essais (Letter Machine, 2014), Half of What They Carried Flew Away (Letter Machine, 2012), and To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation (Rescue Press, 2011), as well as the chapbooks Afterworld (above/ground press), Séance (Coconut Books), and To Be Human (Horseless Press), and editor of the anthologies: We Can See into Another Place: Mile-High Writers on Social Justice (Bower House/The Bookies, 2024) and The Braided River: Activist Rhizome (Essay Press, 2015). She earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2005), and a Ph.D. in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Denver (2010). Andrea is the Program Director for Regis University’s Mile-High MFA in Creative Writing. She also teaches in the Poetry Collective at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado. https://www.andrearexilius.net/

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Feb
18
6:30 PM18:30

Trident Author Series: Eileen Kelly - Small Wonder

About Small Wonder:

Small Wonder is an unconventional thriller set in the preschools and the playgrounds of Brooklyn, New York. The portrait of a woman trying to find joy and connection in an age of anxiety, Small Wonder asks: how do you raise a child as a single mother and keep a roof over your heads when time is passing so quickly and the future seems to hold only danger?

Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls’ Rising, finalist for the National Book Award, calls Small Wonder “pitch perfect.” “A realistic capture of urban domestic life in our time,” he writes, “ it adds a dose of gaslighting drama that would put Les Diaboliques to shame.”

 

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, author Clifford Thompson (What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues), calls Small Wonder “a funny, frightening look at grown-up confusion and the horror of childhood.”

 

About Eileen Kelly:

Eileen Kelly lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she writes development documents for criminal justice nonprofits and fiction for children and adults. Her stories have appeared in the Tupelo Quarterly and Wrongdoing Magazine. A very long time ago, she won the Hopwood Award in the Novel from the University of Michigan’s MFA program. Small Wonder is her first published novel.

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Feb
20
6:00 PM18:00

Variety Show: And Now...Featuring:

And Now...Featuring: is a monthly variety show that features local artists of all kinds. Poets, Music makers, Comedians, Dancers, Performance Artists...

Come early for the open jam session from 6-6:30pm (bring an instrument, borrow one!)

Then, stay for the Variety Show from 6:30-8!

Hosted by Aimee Herman

For more info or to feature for an upcoming month, email: aimeeherman@gmail.com

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Feb
20
6:00 PM18:00

Variety Show: And Now...Featuring:

And Now...Featuring: is a monthly variety show that features local artists of all kinds. Poets, Music makers, Comedians, Dancers, Performance Artists...

Come early for the open jam session from 6-6:30pm (bring an instrument, borrow one!)

Then, stay for the Variety Show from 6:30-8!

Hosted by Aimee Herman

For more info or to feature for an upcoming month, email: aimeeherman@gmail.com

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Feb
25
6:30 PM18:30

Traveling With Curiosity: A Conversation About Creativity, Impact, And Learning - Trident Author Series

Tuesday February 25th - 6:30PM

Traveling with Curiosity: A Conversation about Creativity, Impact and Learning

Moderated by Annika Paradise

Authors: Brook Eddy, Andi Almond Julie Frieder, Angela Heisten and Annika Paradise

Steeped: Adventures of a Tea Entrepreneur by Brook Eddy

Isolated, broke, and restless in a drafty mountain A-frame with colicky twins, Brook Eddy needed a path out. This is the story of one woman's passionate spirit and how it transformed despair into entrepreneurial success.

STEEPED: Adventures Of A Tea Entrepreneur is the story of how Brook built a socially conscious multimillion-dollar tea company with a fierce devotion to sustainability. Part business memoir, part India travelogue, STEEPED is brimming with provocative prose, transcendent images of travel throughout India, and advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, idealists, and travelers.

From forearms slashed with scalding burns to the unseen sting of stress, depression, and near bankruptcy, Brook's story is one of love, loss, and unrelenting resilience.

STEEPED is a testament that while you don't need an MBA, a trust fund, a husband, or a business plan to bring an idea to market, you do need to be able to withstand hot water, which, like tea, will make you stronger.

The Everywhere Classroom: How One Family Turned Wanderlust into Worldschooling and How You Can Too by Andi Almond

The story of one family’s worldschooling adventure, with tips and inspiration for anyone who wants to embrace travel as an immersive learning opportunity.

In The Everywhere Classroom: How One Family Turned Wanderlust into Worldschooling and How You Can Too, Andi Almond recounts her family’s experiences traveling the globe for a year, revealing the rich educational opportunities the world offers beyond traditional classrooms. Through the engaging and often humorous stories of the Almond family's adventures—from an impromptu expedition to Antarctica to a solo teen homestay in Taiwan—the book captures how travel off the tourist trail offers profound lessons that push comfort zones and foster growth and global awareness.

Each chapter weaves a vivid tapestry of encounters that illustrate how families can make the most of their travels, whether on a weekend getaway close to home or extended adventure far afield. Supplemented with practical tips, curriculum ideas, and strategies for incorporating worldschooling into trips of any length and budget, The Everywhere Classroom goes beyond being a mere travelogue. It serves as a catalyst for change, inspiring families to explore purposefully and discover boundless learning in the world.

Wonder Year: A Guide to Long-term Family Travel and Worldschooling by Julie Frieder, Angela Heisten and Annika Paradise

Learn how to pack up the family for a life-changing, long-term journey filled with education and adventure.

If you’ve ever dreamed about an epic family adventure and heading out on the road for a few months or more, Wonder Year is for you. Part inspiration and part how-to, this book demystifies the seemingly outrageous prospect of embarking on a long-term family trip and using the world as a classroom for your kids―a trailblazing approach known as worldschooling.

Packed with practical information, Wonder Year offers invaluable guidance to help transform your dream into a well-planned reality for your family. Woven throughout the book are evocative travelogues and photos from families sharing worldschooling experiences. Paddling a wild and scenic Oregon river, stargazing in New Mexico, and visiting World War II sites in France are just a few of the colorful stories that will no doubt stir you to envision your own journey.

This book will show you how to:

  • Explore funding options for long-term family travel―be it a summer, semester, year, or more

  • Choose where to go and navigate the logistics of getting there

  • Discover alternative education methods for teaching your kids on the road

  • Travel responsibly and sustainably

  • Identify ways to earn income while traveling

  • Stay healthy and safe along the way

  • Tap into a global community of worldschoolers and family adventurers

You’ll learn that extended family travel is more attractive and attainable than ever before, and remote living and learning are not actually remote at all. Wonder Year will help you slow down, simplify, and wonder at all the world has to offer.

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Feb
27
6:00 PM18:00

Nu Bass Theory

Nu Bass Theory seamlessly blends electronic beats, soulful synth melodies, intricate samples, and mesmerizing vocal harmonies. This Denver-based outfit crafts a rare slice of electronica that maintains the groove, extending an irresistible invitation to an alternate lounge world dance party.


Nu Bass Theory's music celebrates diversity and innovation, transcending traditional genre labels to create a sonic journey where the boundaries between electro, pop, and jazz effortlessly dissolve. Enter their realm, where each performance fuses electronic prowess and live instrumentation, promising an unforgettable experience that defies expectations. Whether captivated by the infectious energy of their produced beats, pocket, or mantra-based vocal style, Nu Bass Theory invites you to join them on a sonic adventure. In Denver and beyond, they are the architects of a new era in electro-pop-jazz. The rare slice of electronica that maintains the groove, Nu Bass Theory sets the stage for a musical movement, inviting all to dance, listen, vibe, and create friendships.

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Feb
28
6:00 PM18:00

Third Turn

Third Turn is the latest jam band trio out of Fort Collins, Colorado. The 3 piece fuses funk, jazz, good ol’ rock and roll and then some into original music, and some tasteful covers. With Matt Keller on guitar and vocals, the wonderful Phillip Nelson on the bass guitar, and the incredible Rory Stone on the cans, these guys will open up a new world within every song, so don’t miss the party!

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Mar
1
6:00 PM18:00

Mud & Marrow

mud & marrow’s fusion of thick vocal harmonies, West African percussion, and poetic eco-femme rage invites listeners into creative action. We are five Denver-based women creating all-original music influenced by our diverse backgrounds and experiences. Audiences are struck by our energy, unique instrumentation, and the beautiful power of being a badass group of diverse women claiming our space within the Colorado music industry.  Compared to Rising Appalachia and Erykah Badu, each song we write is its own little ecosystem.  Visit us at mudandmarrow.com or @mudandmarrowmusic.

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Mar
4
6:30 PM18:30

Trident Author Series Presents: David Baron

Author Biography:

Boulder author David Baron writes about science, nature, and the American West. His first book, THE BEAST IN THE GARDEN, tells a harrowing true story of people and mountain lions on Colorado's Front Range. Winner of the 2003 Colorado Book Award, it has become a classic work of nature writing and a perennial Boulder favorite. David’s 2017 book, AMERICAN ECLIPSE, recounts the forgotten tale of a total solar eclipse that crossed the West in 1878 and lured many of the era’s great scientists and inventors (including Thomas Edison) to frontier Colorado and Wyoming. Widely praised for its lyricism, the book has now been adapted into a musical by the Tony-nominated composer Michael John LaChiusa. David's forthcoming book, THE MARTIANS, unearths the bizarre story of astronomers at the turn of the last century who convinced themselves and the American public that the Red Planet was home to an advanced civilization, spawning a Mars craze that inspired science fiction and helped launch the space age. A book that spans continents—indeed, worlds—its center of action is Flagstaff, Arizona, with Colorado Springs making an important cameo.

 

Before becoming a full-time author, David Baron worked for many years as a science correspondent and editor for NPR and the public radio program “The World.” He has written for many news outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, and recently served as Chair in Astrobiology at the Library of Congress. David is a passionate eclipse chaser who has witnessed nine total solar eclipses across the globe, from Chile to Indonesia to the Faroe Islands. He first came to Boulder (from Boston) in 1998 as a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at CU, and he remains an affiliate of CU’s Center for Environmental Journalism.

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Mar
7
6:00 PM18:00

Sempar Album Release Show

SEMPAR is a Cheese Rock band that incorporates indie/ alt rock into a warm gooey nostalgic flavor. Drawing inspiration from Weezer, The Chats, Skegss, and other Alt rock/ Punk rock bands, the band has a uniquely familiar 90’s sound fueled with angst. Growing in popularity through shows around Boulder/ Denver, the band is excited to debut their first full-length album, “After Dark”, for their devoted fans, and new listeners, to enjoy on all streaming services. They will perform their new album live in its entirety as well as classics and newer songs for a Cheese Rock evening

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Mar
11
6:30 PM18:30

Trident Author Series: Gabrielle Myers - Break Self: Feed

About Gabrielle Myers:

Gabrielle is a writer, professor, and chef. Her memoir, Hive-Mind (Lisa Hagan Books, 2015), details her time of love, awakening, and tragic loss on an organic farm. Her first poetry book, Too Many Seeds, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2021. Her second poetry book, Break Self: Feed, was published in 2024, and her third poetry book, Points in the Network, is forthcoming from Finishing Line in the Fall of 2025, and her fourth poetry book, Go Forth: Lose Yourself into Life, is also forthcoming from Finishing Line. Her poetry has been published in the Atlanta Review, The Evergreen Review, The Adirondack Review, San Francisco Public Press, Fourteen Hills, pacificREVIEW, Connecticut River Review,Catamaran, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and is forthcoming from American Poetry Review and Cathexis Northwest Poetry Review. In 2024, her manuscript La Ruta es Clara was a finalist for the Codhill Press Guest Editor’s Poetry Prize. In 2020, she was a top finalist for the Catamaran Poetry Prize with her collection Break Self: Feed, and in 2018 she was a Catamaran finalist for what transformed into her first poetry collection, Too Many Seeds. Gabrielle is the Farm-to-Fork columnist for Inside Sacramento magazine: https://insidesacramento.com/sacramento-dining/farm-to-fork/ Access links to her memoir, poetry books, farm-to-fork articles, published works, interviews, YouTube cooking channel, and seasonal recipe blog through her website: www.gabriellemyers.com

 

About the Books of Gabrielle Myers: 

Break Self: Feed sings of our ecosystems, their human threats, and possible cures based on nourishment and barrier fracture. In eco-poetic lyrics, borderlands and boundaries evolve in reference to a deep connection with the natural world that surrounds us with its seasonal shifts and the impacts of climate change. We never know when abundance and satiation will come. We spend so much time preparing for devastation and desiccation, so much energy we waste planning our ruin. Break Self: Feed repurposes that drive, energy, and time towards preparing for our proliferation, our unfurling, our living into our potential. Dig into the soil, feel fine-webbed roots working out their networks of nutrient pull and harvest. Let’s mimic the roots’ motion to gather, see what we can get out of the perfect soil, set ourselves on expansion, lengthening, growth. 

 

On Break Self: Feed:

 

“With Break Self: Feed, Gabrielle Myers asks, ‘what will we make of us, here?’ The question lingers throughout the collection as the verses respond with the lessons of the earth, its cycles of growth and decay, ‘bound by light’s air, uncaged/ humming like wires set in motion.’ This is a collection of longing, becoming, the process of reformation and rebirth, and the search for wholeness as we sing ‘a tune to another narrative/ of us, me, you.’”

–Brian Turner, author of The Wild Delight of Wild Things

 

“Break Self: Feed is stunningly myriad in its complexities, even as it is searingly direct in its line-by-line depiction of our human struggle to know ourselves and others, and to create a life that will “feed” us. The subject-matters of this text are jigsaw-puzzle pieces that mirror a life broken and yet finding the means to cohere.

     It is a book raging against the ways we are bent on destruction, of our natural world and of each other. Yet it is a book that honors the preciousness of the least living thing and offers that awareness through exactingly expressed depictions one will not soon forget. 

   And it is a book that brilliantly uses form to speak its subject matter. Here you will find short poems and long poems, poems that are in couplets or in thick stanzas, and poems whose stanzas stretch across the page. In each, I sense that the forms reflect the emotional resonance of the work. Whether it is a poem of longing, of anger, of eros, of hope, the form speaks to this, through its shape on the page.  

    I have found in this work that if one has the courage to follow the imperative ‘Break Self,’ then one may find so much that is freed, and so much that will feed the psyche and soul.” 

–Rusty Morrison, Co-Founder & Co-Publisher of Omnidawn, author of After Urgencythe true keeps calm biding its storyBeyond the Chainlink, and Risk

                                    

“The poems in Break Self: Feed make rhythmic leaps that mimic leaves, trees, and hummingbirds. These poems express the sense that, despite our destructive tendencies, we belong to all things. Primarily written in first person plural, this book is an exuberant expression of “we” and what that means in a landscape where we are continually cut off and isolated, but where failure can “make us gentle toward each other.” Myers pays close attention to roots, to smoke, to Sycamore and birch, to sunlight itself and urges us to reach out, not away.” 

–Jessica Cuello, author of PrickingBy FireHuntLair, and YoursCreature

 

Break Self: Feed was selected Finalist for the Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets in 2020 by Zack Rogow:“These poems speak of the most inward thoughts about how people relate when extremely close. The book is a sort of phenomenology of intimacy. Often it feels as if this poet has created a new way to use language that doesn’t follow the rules of everyday speech. The words are almost abstract but highly precise in recounting states of mind, and states of the heart. The reader senses that true feelings are being excavated, and they are both unexpected and breathtakingly familiar. In an extraordinary tour de force, the poet maintains a first-person plural ‘we’ narrator through much of the collection, without losing emotional intensity.” 

–Zack Rogow, author of Irreverent LitaniesMy Mother and the Ceiling DancersThe Number Before Infinity, and The Selfsame Planet

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Mar
18
6:30 PM18:30

Trident Author Series: Amie Whittemore - Nest of Matches

About Amie:

Amie Whittemore (she/her) is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Nest of Matches (Autumn House Press). Her chapbook, Hesitation Waltz, is forthcoming from the Midwest Writing Center. She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and her writing has appeared in Blackbird, Colorado Review, Terrain.org, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University.

 

About Nest of Matches:

Amie Whittemore’s Nest of Matches is a lavish declaration of the beauty of the natural world, queer identity, and of the imagination set free. Whittemore’s third collection explores the complexities of love—romantic, familial, and love for place—and wonders at cycles of life, finding that: “Every habit / even love—strangest / of them all—offers exhaustion / and renewal.” Moving seamlessly from meditations on the moon’s phases to explorations of dream spaces to searches for meaning through patterns of love and loss, Whittemore’s work embodies the mysteries of dichotomies—grief and joy, consciousness and unconsciousness, habit and spontaneity—and how they coexist to create our identities. Throughout the collection, Whittemore reveals how interior nature manifests into exterior habits and how physical landscapes shape the psyche.

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Mar
20
6:00 PM18:00

Variety Show: And Now...Featuring:

And Now...Featuring: is a monthly variety show that features local artists of all kinds. Poets, Music makers, Comedians, Dancers, Performance Artists...

Come early for the open jam session from 6-6:30pm (bring an instrument, borrow one!)

Then, stay for the Variety Show from 6:30-8!

Hosted by Aimee Herman

For more info or to feature for an upcoming month, email: aimeeherman@gmail.com

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Apr
12
6:00 PM18:00

Jazzetry w/ Von Disco

Jazz + poetry form the roots of the word but fail to capture the life of the event. Original words composed by local writers are spoken live over completely improvised music. What the poets bring to the mic varies as much as the musical styles and soundscapes explored. The band is Von Disco: an local trio that blends hip hop, neo-soul, and evolving sonic atmospheres. They have provided the backbone of Jazzetry since its inception in 2015, and the event continues to be an adventure for all involved.

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Apr
15
6:30 PM18:30

Alison Hawthorne Deming - New Book Release - Trident Author Series

Trident Author Series

Alison Hawthorne Deming

Tuesday April 15 - 6:30PM-7:30PM

BLUE FLAX & YELLOW MUSTARD FLOWER

&

THE GIFT OF ANIMALS

About Alison:

Poet, essayist, and editor Alison Hawthorne Deming, grew up in New England, steeped in literary and naturalist traditions. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she has published six books of poetry and five books of nonfiction, with two books out in 2025: the poetry collection Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower (Red Hen Press) and the anthology The Gift of Animals: Poems of Love, Loss, & Connection (Storey Press). She coedited with Lauret E. Savoy the anthology The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World. She served as Poet-in-Residence at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens for the Language of Conservation; and the Milwaukee Public Museum and Milwaukee Public Library for Field Work, both projects sponsored by Poet’s House in NYC. Her other awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Borchard Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. She is former Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice and former Director of the UA Poetry Center. Currently she is Regents Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona. She lives in Tucson, Arizona and Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada.

New Books:

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR NEW BOOKS BY ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING

 

BLUE FLAX & YELLOW MUSTARD FLOWER, Red Hen Press, (Pub date, March 4th 2025)

“Alison Hawthorne Deming’s new collection, Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower is a rich catalog of the Anthropocene, including history, research, and initiative. In the tradition of Rachel Carson, Annie Dillard, and Pattiann Rogers––Deming pays extraordinary attention to the natural world. With skillful use of scientific detail, music, place, and the power of naming things, she sounds an alarm and a call to action. Moving deftly from the short lyric to the long narrative to prose: “each word an act / of defiance against the unspeakable.” Poem after poem reads like a “little locus of beauty to counter the decay.” This collection is an homage to naturalists and explorers, to environmental consciousness, to curiosity and to service––it is a lyric acknowledgement of the delicate balance of life.” --Ellen Bass

“Alison Hawthorne Deming is not a poet for whom environmental writing is merely a subject or an aspect of her brand.  For this true poet, nature is nothing less than a beyond-one’s-own-life existential presence.  As with Merwin, Snyder, and Hillman, I read Deming’s complex work both for its powerful engagements with nature and the vivifying inventions of its music.  Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower provides us such abundance: vigilance but also awe, documentation alongside discovery, and formal designs that range from quantitative syllabics to the open fields of free verse and prose poetry.  In the end Deming’s artful strategies are—as in areas as diverse as physics, sociobiology, and grammar—deeply relational.  Each “chatter, dirge, thesis, and psalm” is what it is in vital symbiosis with the rest.” --David Baker 

THE GIFT OF ANIMALS, Storey Press (Pub Date, April 1st )

The Gift of Animals is a wonderful book, the rare treasure that you will want to give to all your friends, even as you keep a copy close beside you. Brilliantly selected and meaningfully arranged, the poems unfold one after another – perfectly observed, rambunctious, hilarious or heartbreaking, astonishing, revelatory or mysterious, loving. In our cosmic loneliness, the company of animals is a great gift that asks in return only that we notice them, respect them, keep a safe place for them on Earth. The poetry of The Gift of Animals is a beautiful invitation to that moral relationship.   — Kathleen Dean Moore, author Earth’s Wild Music

The Gift of Animals offers us a fascinating treasure trove of the most surprising (re)connections to oysters, flamingoes, snakes, and a whole lyrical host of other dazzling heartbeats that beat the same as ours, no matter how many chambers. This collection of fins, fur, scales, and wings echoes a most satisfying call back to our mutual, extraordinary home: Earth.  –Aimee Nezhukumatathil 

This gorgeous collection of encounters feels like an antidote to species loneliness, providing a multifaceted lens on our desire for communion with the more-than-human world. --Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Apr
17
6:00 PM18:00

Variety Show: And Now...Featuring:

And Now...Featuring: is a monthly variety show that features local artists of all kinds. Poets, Music makers, Comedians, Dancers, Performance Artists...

Come early for the open jam session from 6-6:30pm (bring an instrument, borrow one!)

Then, stay for the Variety Show from 6:30-8!

Hosted by Aimee Herman

For more info or to feature for an upcoming month, email: aimeeherman@gmail.com

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May
10
6:00 PM18:00

Jazzetry w/ Von Disco

Jazz + poetry form the roots of the word but fail to capture the life of the event. Original words composed by local writers are spoken live over completely improvised music. What the poets bring to the mic varies as much as the musical styles and soundscapes explored. The band is Von Disco: an local trio that blends hip hop, neo-soul, and evolving sonic atmospheres. They have provided the backbone of Jazzetry since its inception in 2015, and the event continues to be an adventure for all involved.

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May
15
6:00 PM18:00

Variety Show: And Now...Featuring:

And Now...Featuring: is a monthly variety show that features local artists of all kinds. Poets, Music makers, Comedians, Dancers, Performance Artists...

Come early for the open jam session from 6-6:30pm (bring an instrument, borrow one!)

Then, stay for the Variety Show from 6:30-8!

Hosted by Aimee Herman

For more info or to feature for an upcoming month, email: aimeeherman@gmail.com

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Jun
24
6:30 PM18:30

Trident Author Series: Megan Walrod

It's Always Been Me

Tuesday June 24th at 630PM

About It's Always Been Me:

 

For fans of Lily King and Jojo Moyes, a contemporary women’s novel about a woman navigating love, loss, and the whispering call of her neglected artistic dreams.

 

Right after Sabina watches her rock star husband walk out on their marriage, a phone call reveals that her beloved grandmother is in the ICU in Santa Cruz, CA. So, Sabina hits the road with a tear-stained face, a bad hangover, and no plan for her future.

 

After arriving, she rediscovers a number of old loves: ocean swimming, process painting, and a high school sweetheart named Graham—all of which force her to reckon with how she buried her dream of being an artist to support her husband. But strange things are afoot. Sabina hears a mysterious voice and wonders if it’s a Selkie, one of the mythical shape-shifting seal folk from her grandmother’s tales. The voice seems to be guiding her, but can she trust it?

 

While her marriage and her grandmother’s health deteriorate, Sabina returns to her painting asking big questions: Is it too late to live her dream? Must she choose between her dream and love? And is the voice she’s hearing a sign she’s lost it or a key to unlocking her true self?

About Megan Walrod:

Megan Walrod is a published author, women's empowerment coach, and founder of Live Your Yes. For over 16 years, she’s supported women to break free from their “good girl” conditioning and create bold, audacious lives. She’s currently living in Bali as a digital nomad. She has a thing for mermaids, cupcakes, and skinny dipping. It’s Always Been Me is her first novel.

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Jul
8
7:00 PM19:00

Belle Ling

Tuesday July 8, 2025

7PM

Belle Ling was born and raised in Hong Kong. Her poems have won numerous international awards, including the Playa Residency’s Fellowship in Oregon (2014), the UK's Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition (Second Place in the ESL Category, 2016), the New York State Summer Writers Institute Scholarship (2017), the Hong Kong’s International Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology Place Award (2018), and the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award in UK (Shortlist, 2022). She was also a Co-Winner of the Australian Book Review’s prestigious Peter Porter Poetry Prize (2018). Her poetry manuscript, Rabbit-Light, was Highly Commended for the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and her other poetry collection, Grass Flower Head, was shortlisted for The Puncher & Wattmann Prize for a First Book of Poetry. She has been an invited author at the Brisbane Writers Festival, the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, the Goethe-Institut Hongkong, the New York’s Mongrel Writers Residence, and the Chinese Diaspora Poetry Festival in the UK. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from The University of Queensland and a Master of Creative Writing from The University of Sydney. She is now serving in the Core Team of Guild Hong Kong to mobilize strategic creative industry partnerships. 

 Nebulous Vertigo:

 Formally daring poems that ask a compelling question: if fate can never be changed, how can we embrace its weaving?

The realm that belongs to Nebulous Vertigo is both visceral and vibrant, and it is mysteriously familiar. If you come close to it, you will hear how rains eat, how a silken tofu revolts, how the Chinese word for “beans” turns into a speaking persona, and how a telephone bridges the surviving and the afterlife. In Nebulous Vertigo, everyday life is inevitably lost to the inevitable fate. And yet, with unexpected quivers, our fate and life keep surprising us. 

 

Traveling through the cha chaan teng in Hong Kong, you can hear how Mrs. Suen, Mr. Yuen, and Waiter Kuen carry out intriguing conversations; astounded by the night sky in Paris, you will see how constellations narrate the lovers’ quirky destiny; and all the way through the Sayama Hills in Tokorozawa, you will be surprised by the turnings and upturnings of the myths told by a Japanese Uncle. Nebulous Vertigo, as its title beckons, “sighs an unreal cloud / for the fated sun to rise.” If fate can never be changed, how can we embrace its weaving? Every attempt, as the poems suggest, can be calmingly adventurous, unobvious yet magnanimous.

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Oct
7
7:00 PM19:00

Trident Author Series: Rex Ogle

REX OGLE is an award-winning author and the writer of nearly a hundred children’s books, comics, graphic novels, and memoirs—most notably Free Lunch, which won the ALA/YALSA award for Excellence in Non-Fiction.  

He has written under several pseudonyms, including Trey King and Honest Lee, but is currently focused on reimagining classic literature as modern or fantastical graphic novels as REY TERCIERO, under which he penned bestselling Meg, Jo, Beth, & Amy, as well as Northranger, nominated for both a Harvey and GLAAD Media Award. 

Born and raised (mostly) in Texas, Rex moved to New York City after college to intern with Marvel Comics before moving over to DC Comics, Scholastic, and Little Brown Young Readers.  As an editor, he championed over a dozen NY Times Bestsellers and worked (and often wrote) on major brands such as X-MenJustice LeagueStar Wars, LEGOPower RangersTransformersMinecraftAssassin’s CreedBuffy the Vampire Slayer, and Neil Patrick Harris’s Magic Misfits.  

Now, Rex lives in Los Angeles where he writes every day—that is, when he’s not outdoors hiking with his dog, playing MarioKart with friends, or thinking up new ideas for books

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Jan
7
6:30 PM18:30

Trident Author Series: Nathan Hutchinson - Evergreen: A Love Letter To Old-Growth Forests

About Nathan:
Nathan Hutchinson is a prolific multimedia artist most known for his magical realist paintings and sculptures. His art implores us to consider our relationship with the natural world and how humans might come back into right relationship with the land, non-human beings, and reintegrate ourselves as symbiotic beings in an interdependent ecosystem. This includes both inner and outer worlds. “I find that at the headwaters of all art is a healing force meant to rebind ourselves into a nature from which we are only seemingly separate.”

About Evergreen:
Evergreen is artist Nathan Hutchinson’s love letter to old-growth forests and wild open spaces in the form of exquisitely painted wilderness scenes accompanied by essays exploring the idea of healing ecological dissociation by rewilding ourselves. With over a hundred illustrations spanning the surreal to ultra-realistic, from oils to pen drawings and watercolors, this book represents the natural world in all its multiplicity, as a unified whole. Printed on 100% recycled chlorine free paper, Evergreen is a one-of-a-kind art book. A must-have for all fine art enthusiasts who concern themselves with ecology.
95% of profits go to organizations helping our last remaining old-growth forests and wild open spaces.

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Dec
21
6:00 PM18:00

Winter Solstice Folk Tunes w/ Nicolette Andres + Guests

Fiddler Nicolette Andres is a local of Colorado. The Hardingfele or Hardanger fiddle is Nicolette's main instrument, although she began playing violin at age five. Nicolette was always surrounded by jazz and folk music. While at the University of Puget Sound studying music, Nicolette was turned onto traditional Irish music by a friend. From there Nicolette discovered Swedish traditional music, and that led to a discovery of the Hardanger fiddle, a traditional instrument of Norway. Hardanger fiddle music felt like an uncovering of a musical home to Nicolette. Although unfamiliar in ways, its transcendental, melodic, expansive qualities evoke imagery and emotion that cannot be found on many other instruments. The instrument has sympathetic strings to create drones. The music is intended for traditional dances, listening, and ceremonies. Nicolette has been studying the oral tradition of this music for the last four years, and also writes her own music. Nicolette is recording her debut EP December 2024. 

This solstice show will include traditional Norwegian folk music, original tunes, and improvisation. Nicolette will be joined for portions of the show by Graeme Danforth on cittern and Ted Stevens on guitar. 

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Dec
19
6:00 PM18:00

Variety Show: And Now...Featuring:

And Now...Featuring: is a monthly variety show that features local artists of all kinds. Poets, Music makers, Comedians, Dancers, Performance Artists...

Come early for the open jam session from 6-6:30pm (bring an instrument, borrow one!)

Then, stay for the Variety Show from 6:30-8!

Hosted by Aimee Herman

For more info or to feature for an upcoming month, email: aimeeherman@gmail.com

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Dec
17
6:30 PM18:30

Trident Author Series: The Poetry of Carlos Fernandes II

Casually Extravagant

This collection is broken up intentionally, encouraging you to move through each poem slowly. I'm a slow sipper when it comes to coffee and a big believer that the best things in life are best enjoyed and absorbed at a slow, patient pace. Grab your favorite mug, make a pour over, and cozy up on the couch as you read these poems, a sip at a time.

About Carlos Fernandes II:

Carlos Fernandes II is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute where he majored in English. He now lives in Boulder, CO serving coffee at Verb Coffee Roasters. This is his second collection following, The View Within Me

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Dec
14
6:00 PM18:00

Jazzetry w/ Von Disco

Jazz + poetry form the roots of the word but fail to capture the life of the event. Original words composed by local writers are spoken live over completely improvised music. What the poets bring to the mic varies as much as the musical styles and soundscapes explored. The band is Von Disco: an local trio that blends hip hop, neo-soul, and evolving sonic atmospheres. They have provided the backbone of Jazzetry since its inception in 2015, and the event continues to be an adventure for all involved.

View Event →
Dec
10
6:30 PM18:30

Trident Author Series: Nathan Hutchinson

About Nathan:


Nathan Hutchinson is a prolific multimedia artist most known for his magical realist paintings and sculptures. His art implores us to consider our relationship with the natural world and how humans might come back into right relationship with the land, non-human beings, and reintegrate ourselves as symbiotic beings in an interdependent ecosystem. This includes both inner and outer worlds. “I find that at the headwaters of all art is a healing force meant to rebind ourselves into a nature from which we are only seemingly separate.”



About Evergreen:

Evergreen is artist Nathan Hutchinson’s love letter to old-growth forests and wild open spaces in the form of exquisitely painted wilderness scenes accompanied by essays exploring the idea of healing ecological dissociation by rewilding ourselves. With over a hundred illustrations spanning the surreal to ultra-realistic, from oils to pen drawings and watercolors, this book represents the natural world in all its multiplicity, as a unified whole. Printed on 100% recycled chlorine free paper, Evergreen is a one-of-a-kind art book. A must-have for all fine art enthusiasts who concern themselves with ecology.
95% of profits go to organizations helping our last remaining old-growth forests and wild open spaces.

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Dec
7
6:00 PM18:00

Bombay Gin Literary Journal Editors Reading

Bombay Gin Literary Journal Editors Reading

  • Saturday, December 7, 2024

  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

  • Trident Booksellers & Cafe (map)

Bombay Gin Literary Journal Presents:

A poetry reading from the editors of BGLJ

&

Pop-Up Book & Broadside Sale:

Here is your opportunity to take home some rare and out-of-print books, chapbooks, broadsides & more, featuring some of the greats such as Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman, and Allen Ginsberg.

The event will provide an open opportunity to submit your poetry, prose, & art to be considered for inclusion in the upcoming issue of Bombay Gin Literary Journal, #49 In the Strangler Fig.

There will be a reading from current and past editors of Bombay Gin Literary Journal which will be hosted by their stalwart advisor, Swanee Astrid.

Bombay Gin Literary Journal and Editors Info:

https://www.naropa.edu/academics/jks/publications/bombay-gin/

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Dec
6
6:00 PM18:00

Drew Hersch Album Release

Drew Hersch is a 23-year-old independent pop artist based in Boulder, Colorado. Passionate about every aspect of his craft, Drew embraces a wide range of influences, from alternative pop to musical theatre to country and folk. His music draws from the texture of Billie Eilish, the warmth of Zach Bryan, the free-form structure of Rex Orange County, and the atmospheric qualities of Lana Del Rey, creating a sound that is both familiar and uniquely his own.

As the sole writer, producer, and performer of his work, Drew thrives on doing it all. He records wherever inspiration strikes, whether in a garage, a car trunk, or his one-bedroom apartment. His dedication to the full artistic process extends beyond music; he is deeply passionate about creating his cover art, directing his music videos, and devising effective marketing strategies.

Drew’s breakthrough track, “honey,” recorded at 17 with minimal equipment, has accumulated nearly 1 million streams on Spotify, embodying his belief that “a good song is a good song.” Following the success of this debut single, Drew devoted two years to meticulously crafting his debut album, sad boy summer, in various dorm rooms. He is now rolling out a new album, integrating new genres with the addition of each track. The album is set for release in December after 5 singles.

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Dec
3
6:30 PM18:30

A Conversation with Boulder Mayor Aaron Brockett

Tuesday December 3rd at 6:30PM

Trident Booksellers and Cafe

 

Please join Trident Book Events Manager, Brian Buckley, in a conversation with Mayor Aaron Brockett. The conversion will be followed by a Question & Answer exchange between Mayor Brockett and the audience. Please join us as we discuss the state of and the future of Boulder, Colorado.

 

About Mayor Aaron Brockett

Aaron Brockett grew up in the small college town of Sewanee, TN. He attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where he majored in Music and met his wife-to-be Cherry Anderson. After 8 years of living together in Stamford, CT, Aaron and Cherry moved to Boulder in 2003. They've raised their two children in North Boulder and ran a small software development firm together for 20 years. After serving for 5 years on the city's Planning Board, Aaron was first elected to the city council in 2015, was re-elected in 2019, and became mayor in November of 2021. In his time on City Council, he has focused on climate change, housing, transportation, social justice, and racial equity.

He served for 6 years on the Denver Regional Council of Governments and is currently a member of the Boulder Racial Equity Guiding Coalition, the Metro Mayors Caucus, the Northwest Mayors and Commissioners Coalition, the Highway 119 Executive Committee and numerous other committees.

As part of the city’s commitment to advancing racial equity, Mayor Brockett has attended the Advancing Racial Equity: Role of Government and Bias and Microaggression Trainings.

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Nov
22
6:00 PM18:00

Skyler Sun/ Will Deheeger/ Echo

Skyler sun is a singer-songwriter who plays original folk tunes. He’s accompanied by his kick drum, foot tambourine and harmonica.

Will Deheeger embarks on a new(ish) journey of artistic expression, sharing the Trident stage with beloved friend and wonderful musician, Skyler Sun. Will's combination of lyrical poeticism may either evoke tears or surprising laughter...or a little bit of both.


Echo "I like music" A man of few words, but much talent. 

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Nov
21
6:00 PM18:00

Variety Show: And Now...Featuring:

And Now...Featuring: is a monthly variety show that features local artists of all kinds. Poets, Music makers, Comedians, Dancers, Performance Artists...

Come early for the open jam session from 6-6:30pm (bring an instrument, borrow one!)

Then, stay for the Variety Show from 6:30-8!

Hosted by Aimee Herman

For more info or to feature for an upcoming month, email: aimeeherman@gmail.com

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Nov
19
6:30 PM18:30

Static Parade Presents: Prom Night - A Reading

Static Parade is a reading series hosted by the CU Boulder creative writing MFA students. Every semester, this series introduces new writers from our program to the larger Boulder community through our longstanding partnership with Trident Booksellers. Please join us to hear three of our writers of either fiction or poetry share their latest work for about twenty minutes each, with a short intermission. 

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Nov
17
6:00 PM18:00

Gretchen Sisson In Conversation With Renee Bracey Sherman

Gretchen Sisson In Conversation With Renee Bracey Sherman

Moderators: Jessica Pieklo and Imani Gandy 

Sunday November 17th at 6PM-7PM

Trident, Boulder CO

Gretchen Sisson, Ph.D., is a qualitative sociologist studying abortion and adoption at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at University of California, San Francisco. Her research was cited in the Supreme Court’s dissent in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and has been covered in The Washington PostThe NationAll Things Considered and Consider ThisNew York MagazineVOX, and other outlets.

Renee Bracey Sherman is a reproductive justice activist, abortion storyteller, and writer. She is the founder and co-executive director of We Testify, an organization dedicated to the leadership and representation of people who have abortions and share their stories at the intersection of race, class, and gender identity. She is also an executive producer of Ours to Tell, an award-winning documentary elevating the voices of people who've had abortions. In October, she and her co-author Regina Mahone released their debut book, LIBERATING ABORTION: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve and they are also the co-hosts of The A Files: A Secret History of Abortion, a podcast from The Meteor. She lives in Washington, DC.

Jessica Pieklo is Executive Editor of Rewire News Group, the country's only nonprofit media organization dedicated exclusively to reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice. 

Imani Gandy is Editor at Large of Rewire News Group, writer of Angry Black Lady Chronicles. She and Jess co-host the award-winning podcast Boom! Lawyered

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