REBUS WORKS

CAFE & GROCERY

SMUT PSALM

Join us at Rebus Works for a pre-Valentine's Day erotic poetry celebration, led by award-winning poet, Josh Tvrdy. The first hour will feature an open mic, so come prepared with your most sensual poems! The second hour will feature erotic poetry readings by three local poets: Prairie Moon Dalton, Mackensie Pless, and Josh Tvrdy, who will be reading from his new book of poems, Smut Psalm. Josh's work swings between sex and confession, humor and devastation. Through queer raunch and sheer strangeness, Smut Psalm attempts to transform a repressive evangelicalism into something playful. Copies will be available for purchase.

erotic poetry night

Thursday, February 13

5:30-8pm

Josh Tvrdy (he/him) is a writer, editor, and teacher from Tucson, Arizona. Winner of Button Poetry's 2023 Chapbook contest, his first chapbook, SMUT PSALM, is available now. Winner of a 2021 Pushcart Prize, his poems can be found in The New England Review, POETRY, Image Journal, The Georgia Review and elsewhere. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, hard at work on his first novel.

IG: @josh_tvrdy / TikTok: @joshtvrdy

JOSH TVRDY

Mackensie Pless is a writer who originally hails from the coast of southeastern North Carolina. She moved to the Triangle area to complete a BA in English at UNC-Chapel Hill and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at NC State University, and she now works in account management for an academic publisher. At present, her poems and stories can only be found in the void, but she intends for them to appear elsewhere imminently.

MACKENSIE PLESS

Prairie Moon Dalton is a Southern Appalachian poet born and raised in Western North Carolina. Her work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, TriQuarterly, Rattle, Sprung Formal, and elsewhere. She holds a MFA from North Carolina State University.

PRAIRIE MOON DALTON

https://www.prairiemoondalton.org/