Silo City Reading Series: Michael McGriff, Cindy Juyong Ok, Sun June, Ariel Aberg-Riger
Join us for the July 2024 SILO CITY READING SERIES featuring poetry from Michael McGriff & Cindy Juyong Ok, a musical performance by Sun June and artwork by Ariel Aberg-Riger.
Doors at 7:00 p.m. | Reading begins at 7:30 p.m.
Books will be available for purchase from Fitz Books.
*NOTE: if you would like to request ASL interpretation, please contact info@justbuffalo.org.
Sun June: Special Post-Reading Performance
Sun June will be doing a post-reading performance at Duende with Projections by Ariel Aberg-Riger. Tickets are available now!
Silo City Reading Series is generously supported by:
Cullen Foundation // Stenclik Family Foundation // NYSCA // Erie County // Rich Products Corporation
Featured Artists
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Ariel Aberg-RigerVisual Storyteller
ARIEL ABERG-RIGER is a visual storyteller who creates engaging, accessible stories about history, science, policy, and other forces that shape our lives. Her work explores issues of equity and social justice, on topics that range from environmental racism to the public library, and has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Teen Vogue, and more. Her debut book America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History won the 2023 Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature and was a 2024 Finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award, in a addition to being named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Public Library, Publisher’s Weekly, School Library Journal, and more. She is a big believer in the power of melding forms and morphing mediums to tell expansive stories. She lives with her wife and two kids in Buffalo, New York.
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Cindy Juyoung OkPoet
CINDY JUYOUNG OK is a writer, an editor, and an educator. Her debut poetry collection, Ward Toward, won the 2023 Yale Younger Poets Prize. A MacDowell Fellow, her poems have been published in The Nation, The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. Ok was a finalist for a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, has served as a Poetry Foundation Library Forms & Features visiting teaching artist, and was a reviewer for Harriet Books in 2022-2023.
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Michael McGriffPoet
MICHAEL McGRIFF is the author of five poetry collections, Angel Sharpening its Beak, Eternal Sentences, Early Hour, Home Burial, and Dismantling the Hills. His other books include the linked story collection Our Secret Life in the Movies (co-authored with J.M. Tyree); an edition of David Wevill’s essential writing, To Build My Shadow a Fire; and a translation of Tomas Tranströmer’s The Sorrow Gondola. He co-directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Idaho.
He is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and his work has been honored with a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice,” a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Poetry, Bookforum, The Believer, Tin House, American Poetry Review, Poetry London, and on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and PBS NewsHour. In addition to serving as co-director of the creative writing program at the University of Idaho, he works as an at-large editor for The Northwest Review.
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