Kaitlyn Airy and Kyle Marbut

Join us for a reading with poets Kaitlyn Airy and Kyle Marbut. Kaitlyn Airy will be reading from her recent poetry, and Kyle Marbut will be reading from their debut poetry collection, Black Swan Theory. This in-person event will be free and open to the public. We recommend arriving early for the best seating.

Kaitlyn Airy is a Korean American poet and adoptee. Raised on a small island in the Salish Sea, she currently resides in Charlottesville, where she graduated with an MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia. She was the 2020 winner of the Phyllis L. Ennes contest hosted by the Skagit River Poetry Foundation and was featured in Narrative Magazine as one of their 30 writers below 30. Her essays and poems have been finalists in contests hosted by Ninth Letter, Shenandoah, and The Iowa Review. She serves as an essays and reviews editor for Poetry Northwest.

Kyle Marbut is the author of Black Swan Theory, selected by Arda Collins as the winner of the 2023 Burnside Review Press Book Award. A writer and bookmaker from Ohio, they live in Richmond, Virginia.