Miguel Murphy & Cynthia Cruz

Miguel Murphy and Cynthia Cruz will read from their most recent collections. Murphy’s second collection, Detainee (Barrow Street 2016), was published in April. The dark eroticism that inhabits Miguel Murphy’s Detainee becomes eerily familiar as each startling poem explores the urges, the instincts, and the passions that bare their teeth—”what is love without arrows?”

—Rigoberto González

Cynthia Cruz will read from her fourth collection, How the End Begins  (Four Way Books, 2016) the author of Wunderkammer (Four Way Books, 2014), The Glimmering Room (Four Way Books, 2012), and Ruin (Alice James, 2006). She is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and a Hodder fellowship from Princeton University.