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June Poetry Salon ft. Annah Browning
Featured Book
CRYPTID
Annah Browning’s poetry collection Cryptid takes on weird phenomena and real desire. In these pages, a young woman from the rural South longs to be abducted by aliens; a female sasquatch spies on human families and pines for love; a Chinese spy balloon is heartbroken by being shot down. Through these personas and a host of strange happenings from American folklore, Cryptid probes the longing for something more buried at the heart of the lives of women and those deemed “other” by an unjust world. By turns irreverently funny, grotesquely bodily, and eerily heartbreaking, Cryptid insists on the beauty of the unseen and the disbelieved.
This book will be available for purchase at the event.
About This Event
June Poetry Salon ft. Annah Browning
Wednesday Jun 17th, 2026
6:30 PM
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7:30 PM
Poetry Salon
City Lit Books
Join us for the June installment of The Poetry Salon for the book release of CRYPTID by Annah Browning. The open mic is open to all poets and sign-up begins at 6:15 and readings begin at 6:30.
Featured Author
Annah Browning
Annah Browning is the author of the poetry collections Cryptid (University of Akron Press, 2026), Witch Doctrine (University of Akron Press, 2020) and the chapbook The Marriage (Horse Less Press, 2013), and is a cofounder of Grimoire Magazine. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, and more. She earned her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Hailing from the foothills of South Carolina, Browning currently calls southern Illinois home, where she is a professor of English at Blackburn College.
About the Venue
City Lit Books
Located in the heart of Logan Square, City Lit specializes in contemporary fiction and non-fiction, with a richly curated collection of children's literature, speculative fiction, poetry, and more. Our store is a literary hub for the community, hosting many book clubs, poetry readings, and author events.
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