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On Saturday, June 3, 2017, Just Buffalo Literary Center welcomed poet & dream deliverer Mathias Svalina to the Silo City Reading Series. He read alongside writer Aidan Ryan. In collaboration with Squeaky Wheel, Mary Helena Clark screened her film Delphi Falls. There was also a mesmerizing performance by the band Cages. Photographs by Nancy J. Parisi.

In March, young writers of the JBWC, Hannah and Trinity, performed at University at Buffalo’s North Campus as finalists of the UB English/Poetics riverrun Poetry Prize. As part of the Robert Creeley Lecture and Celebration of Poetry, the winner was announced by judge and Just Buffalo’s Artistic Director, Barbara Cole, following the finalists’ readings. The winner, a senior from Nichols School, performed her winning poem alongside our JB poets.