Charmed Instruments: Ted Rees & Sara Jane Stoner

Please join us at L'Etage for a nite of poetry with Ted Rees & Sara Jane Stoner! Doors will open at 7:30 / poetry will begin at 8pm. Ted Rees is a poet and essayist who has spent the last nine years living in the cities and map blips of central and northern California, but now resides in Philadelphia. Recent prose work has appeared in Full Stop Magazine and From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice, with poems appearing in The Recluse and SET: a journal. In 2018, Timeless, Infinite Light will publish his first book of poetry, In Brazen Fontanelle Aflame, and The Elephants will publish a hybrid-genre chapbook, the soft abyss. He currently adjuncts at Temple University and rambles around West Philly with his partner and their dog, Canela. Sara Jane Stoner is a writer, teacher, and PhD candidate at CUNY Graduate Center working/worrying on a dissertation between pedagogy, queer theory, and contemporary poetics. Her first book, Experience in the Medium of Destruction (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2015) was nominated for a Lambda Award, and GRIEF HOUR, a chapbook, was published in the Spring/Summer issue of Black Warrior Review.