Book Launch: Terence Degnan’s Echelon
Sun, 22 Feb 2026
7:30 - 10:30 PM (EST)
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Doors 7:30pm, Event 8pm
Featuring special guest performers and readers and a musical performance by Feral Foster.
Kurt Graves (host) is a pathfinder, mentor, wanderer, querior, friend and husband. His only published poems were in his high school creative writing publication. They were “Julia Frump” and “Beetles in Mass”. He loves and resides in beauty and suffering, largely because of his artist friends and artist wife. He loves the air of an all night hike at high elevation. He is a business coach and aims to be relentlessly helpful and a generator of fierce and open conversation.
This is Terence Degnan’s 5th book of poems. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
Zoë Ryder White’s first full-length collection, The Visible Field, is forthcoming from River River Books in early 2026. A chapbook, Via Post, was a finalist for Tupelo Press’ Snowbound Chapbook award and won the Sixth Finch chapbook contest in 2022. HYPERSPACE was the editors’ choice pick for the Verse Tomaž Šalamun Prize in 2020 and is available from Factory Hollow Press. She co-authored A Study in Spring (Rabbit Catastrophe Press, 2015) and Elsewhere (Sixth Finch Press, 2020) with Nicole Callihan. Her poems have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Iterant, Plume, and Threepenny Review, among others. A former elementary school teacher, she edits books for educators about the craft of teaching. She lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her family
Denver Butson is an American poet who has published six books of poetry, has won numerous awards, and has had his work featured in the US on National Public Radio and the Library of Congress. His work in collaboration with visual artists, performing artists, and musicians has taken him to galleries, performance spaces, and stages across the US and Europe. A collection of his work with musicians, The Etcetera Variations, features some of the poetry he has performed with the likes of Mat Maneri, Marco Cappelli, Lucian Ban, Brandon Lopez, and Marc Ribot. In 2024, he was a featured poet at PEN Georgia’s 9th Annual Tbilisi International Festival of Literature. National Award winning novelist Colum McCann says that Butson’s poems “knock our comfortable balance all to hell, and then help stitch our imaginations back together again.” He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter.
Gabe Johnson is a lifelong educator, musician, and steward of the land. He has served as a school director and English teacher at Odyssey School for several years, fostering a passion for learning and community. A dedicated musician, Gabe has written, recorded, and performed music in various bands since high school. In recent years, Gabe founded Tater Knob Farm, a small, no-till farm committed to growing nutrient-dense vegetables using regenerative practices that support soil health, biodiversity, and carbon capture. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his wife, Kate, and their two sons.
Featuring special guest performers and readers and a musical performance by Feral Foster.
Kurt Graves (host) is a pathfinder, mentor, wanderer, querior, friend and husband. His only published poems were in his high school creative writing publication. They were “Julia Frump” and “Beetles in Mass”. He loves and resides in beauty and suffering, largely because of his artist friends and artist wife. He loves the air of an all night hike at high elevation. He is a business coach and aims to be relentlessly helpful and a generator of fierce and open conversation.
This is Terence Degnan’s 5th book of poems. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
Zoë Ryder White’s first full-length collection, The Visible Field, is forthcoming from River River Books in early 2026. A chapbook, Via Post, was a finalist for Tupelo Press’ Snowbound Chapbook award and won the Sixth Finch chapbook contest in 2022. HYPERSPACE was the editors’ choice pick for the Verse Tomaž Šalamun Prize in 2020 and is available from Factory Hollow Press. She co-authored A Study in Spring (Rabbit Catastrophe Press, 2015) and Elsewhere (Sixth Finch Press, 2020) with Nicole Callihan. Her poems have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Iterant, Plume, and Threepenny Review, among others. A former elementary school teacher, she edits books for educators about the craft of teaching. She lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her family
Denver Butson is an American poet who has published six books of poetry, has won numerous awards, and has had his work featured in the US on National Public Radio and the Library of Congress. His work in collaboration with visual artists, performing artists, and musicians has taken him to galleries, performance spaces, and stages across the US and Europe. A collection of his work with musicians, The Etcetera Variations, features some of the poetry he has performed with the likes of Mat Maneri, Marco Cappelli, Lucian Ban, Brandon Lopez, and Marc Ribot. In 2024, he was a featured poet at PEN Georgia’s 9th Annual Tbilisi International Festival of Literature. National Award winning novelist Colum McCann says that Butson’s poems “knock our comfortable balance all to hell, and then help stitch our imaginations back together again.” He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter.
Gabe Johnson is a lifelong educator, musician, and steward of the land. He has served as a school director and English teacher at Odyssey School for several years, fostering a passion for learning and community. A dedicated musician, Gabe has written, recorded, and performed music in various bands since high school. In recent years, Gabe founded Tater Knob Farm, a small, no-till farm committed to growing nutrient-dense vegetables using regenerative practices that support soil health, biodiversity, and carbon capture. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his wife, Kate, and their two sons.