Come join our weekly Instagram Live chats and hear Dior J Stephens read their heartbreak poem “the [absence] of you”. PLUS a second poem and a third by a favourite writer.

Dior J. Stephens is a Midwestern, USA pisces and poet. He is the author of the chapbooks SCREAMS & lavender, 001, and CANNON!. Their debut full-length collection, CRUEL/CRUEL, will be released by Nightboat Books in March 2023. Dior holds an MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts and is currently pursuing a doctorate degree in Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. Dior hopes to be a dolphin in his next life. Dior’s preferred pronouns are he/they.

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