As is our tradition, After Hours magazine held a contributors' reading in August of 2015, celebrating the release of Summer Issue #31. Quraysh Ali Lansana was the featured writer in that issue, and was also the featured reader at the event. This contributors' reading, however, was a little different, because it also celebrated the poetry of After Hours regular contributor, featured writer (Issue #17), and friend Mary Blinn. Mary's sudden death just two months before had greatly saddened the Chicago poetry community. That afternoon, several After Hours readers began their sets with one or two...
As is our tradition, After Hours magazine held a contributors' reading in August of 2015, celebrating the release of Summer Issue #31. Quraysh Ali Lan...