Stratford author Aug Stone is pleased to welcome poet/author/musician Scott Laudati to Connecticut on July 3rd to celebrate the launch of Laudati's latest poetry collection. Rainbow Road follows Laudati as he crisscrosses the country chasing the myths of a lost America. The poems in this collection blend themes of restlessness, history, rebellion, and longing, capturing the spirit of a generation at the decline of an Empire, but still searching for meaning in an inauthentic world. Rainbow Road is Laudati’s third full-length collection of poems.
Scott Laudati lives in NYC with his dog, Josie. He is the author of Camp Winapooka and Play The Devil. His work has been published by The Columbia Journal, The Stockholm Review, XRAY, Hobart, Princeton University and others. Visit him anywhere @ScottLaudati.
Aug Stone is a writer and musician. His novel The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass was one of Vulture’s Best Comedy Books Of 2023. His other books are Off-License To Kill, Nick Cave's Bar, Sporting Moustaches, and Family Vacations. Aug released the Rachel On The Rooftops single last year and is currently working on a full-length record at Sans Serif Studios in New Haven. Aug's a Sagittarius Rising at 12 degrees, with Neptune sitting at 13 degrees Sag. That explains a lot.
Emily Costa, a Waterbury native and graduate of Southern Connecticut State University’s MFA program, is the author of two books—Girl on Girl (Rejection Letters) and Until It Feels Right (Autofocus Books), and writes semi-regularly as half of LISTLESS on Substack.
Terri Linn Davis is the co-editor of Icebreakers Lit, a chaotic, loving home featuring collaborative writing. Terri was the recipient of the Jack and Annie Smith Poets and Painters Award (2018), an alumna of the 2022 and 2024 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop for poetry, and a 2023 Artist Fellowship recipient from Connecticut Office of the Arts. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Sundress Publications’ Best of The Net. You can find some of her work in Taco Bell Quarterly, Pithead Chapel, The Penn Review, Cultural Daily, Five South, and elsewhere. Her microchap LOVE/LIMERENCE/TURKEYS is currently out on submission with presses.
Zora Satchell is a Black and Chinese American queer poet, editor, and cinephile who writes about food, sex, film, family, and friendship. Her work has been published in Honey Literary, Drunk Monkeys Magazine, Stone of Madness Press, and elsewhere. She was In Surreal Life and Emotional Historians Fellow for the summer of 2024 and the 2021 Winter/Spring Brooklyn Poets Fellow. She has performed with Brooklyn Poets, Blasian March, KGB Bar, Priyo, Glow in the City: Unplugged. She lives on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.