Ignatius Valentine Aloysius and David Allen Sullivan "Salt Pruning"

 Join us in-store at the Book Cellar with Ignatius Valentine Aloysius, David Allen Sullivan, Virginia Bell, and Tony Trigilio for the release of Salt Pruning!

About the Readers:  

Virginia Bell is the author of the poetry collection Lifting Child from the Ground, Turning Around (Glass Lyre Press 2024) and From the Belly (Sibling Rivalry Press 2012). She won NELLE Magazine’s Nonfiction Prize in 2020 for the personal essay, “Chicken,” and her poetry won Honorable Mention in the 2019 RiverSedge Poetry Prize, judged by José Antonio Rodríguez. Virginia’s work has appeared in New City Magazine, Five Points, Denver Quarterly, SWWIM, EAP: The Magazine, Hypertext, The Night Heron Barks, Kettle Blue Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Rogue Agent, Gargoyle, Cider Press Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Poet Lore, and other journals and anthologies. She is a Co-Editor of RHINO Poetry and she teaches at Loyola University Chicago.

Tony Trigilio is the author and editor of seventeen books, including, most recently, The Punishment Book (BlazeVOX [books], 2024), the fourth installment in his multivolume cross-genre project, The Complete “Dark Shadows” (of My Childhood). His books of poetry and prose also include Craft: A Memoir (Marsh Hawk Press, 2023); Proof Something Happened, selected by Susan Howe as the winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize (2021); and Ghosts of the Upper Floor (BlazeVOX, 2019), among others. A volume of his selected poems, Fuera del Taller del Cosmos, was published by Guatemala’s Editorial Poe in 2018 (translated by Bony Hernández). He is editor of Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments(Ahsahta Press, 2014), and coeditor of Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930 (Rutgers Univ. Press, 2008). Trigilio co-founded the poetry journal Court Green in 2004, and is poetry editor of Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose. He lives in Chicago, where he teaches at Columbia College.

David Allen Sullivan’s books include Strong-Armed Angels, Every Seed of the Pomegranate, a book of co-translation with Abbas Kadhim from the Arabic of Iraqi Adnan Al-Sayegh, Bombs Have Not Breakfasted Yet, Black Ice, & Salt Pruning, a collaborative poetry collection written with Ignatius Valentine Aloysius on Hummingbird Poetry Press. He won the Mary Ballard Chapbook poetry prize for Take Wing. Black Butterflies Over Baghdad was selected for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection by Tim Seibles & published by Word Works. Seed Shell Ash—a book of poems about his Fulbright year teaching in Xi’an, China—is forthcoming from Salmon Press. He’s the former Santa Cruz county poet laureate & teaches at Cabrillo College, where he edits the Porter Gulch Review with his students. PGRSubmissions@gmail.com. https://dasulliv1.wixsite.com/website-1.

Ignatius Valentine Aloysius is a naturalized U.S. citizen, born in India and raised in Mumbai by a Tamilian father and Anglo-Indian mother. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University, where he teaches. Ignatius is the author of the literary novel Fishhead. Republic of Want (Tortoise Books) & Salt Pruning, a collaborative poetry collection written with David Allen Sullivan on Hummingbird Poetry Press. His prose & poetry have appeared in several journals, including Another Chicago Magazine, Cold Mountain Review, & The Rumpus. He is the current host of the popular reading series Sunday Salon Chicago, and is Co-Editor of The Overturning Anthology, due out in early 2025. Ignatius serves as Co-Chair of the Curatorial Board at Ragdale Foundation, where he is also a Board of Trustees member. He lives in Evanston, Illinois. https://linktr.ee/ignatius.valentine.aloysius

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