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Join us for the launch of Love Hound by Jacob Saenz with special guests Ann Hudson and Kenyatta Rogers at Haymarket House.
From the first poem’s dog bite to the closing heartbeat, Love Hound explores the deep & complex ways relationships inform & affirm who we are. Family shows up for one another in life & in death without question, through a pandemic, across distance & screens. Marriage is a dead bachelor, a Prince mixtape, an ode to a belly button & green eyes. The poems in this collection offer love as an elixir to war, the violence of ICE, & to confronting the “cracks / in the foundation” of our country. Love Hound beats & barks with an edgy heart. Jacob Saenz’s tight, musically-driven poems craft pathways toward tenderness & insist that family—in all its forms—offers a way forward.
***The program will be followed by a reception with light refreshments and books will be for sale. We encourage attendees to wear masks for the safety of our speakers and other guests.***
Speakers:
Jacob Saenz is the author of Love Hound (Next Page Press, 2026) as well as Throwing the Crown, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. A CantoMundo fellow, he's been the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, a Latinx Scholarship from the Frost Place and the Alonzo Davis Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He has served as an editor for Rhino and on the Poetry Editorial Board for Haymarket Books.
Ann Hudson is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Subtraction Isn’t Always Less (Next Page Press, 2024). Her work has appeared in many literary journals, including Crab Orchard Review, North American Review, Orion, Prairie Schooner, and The Seattle Review. She has received residencies from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Virginia and France, and was a finalist for a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg poetry prize. Ann is a senior editor for the poetry journal Rhino and Director of Education for Hive Center for the Book Arts in Evanston, Illinois.
Kenyatta Rogers work has been previously published in the Academy of American Poets, Poetry, Jubilat, Bat City Review, The Volta, PANK, Jet Fuel Review, Rhino, MAKE Magazine, among others. He is a Cave Canem fellow and has been awarded multiple scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. An Associate Editor with Jackleg Press, he serves on the board of directors for AWP and the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, he is a cohost of the Sunday Reading Series with Simone Muench and lives in Chicago. His debut poetry collection is forthcoming in 2027 from Trio House Press.
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