Come ready to this reading series from Durham’s own Bull City Press for engaging poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from established and emerging writers.

Admission: Free!

March 22 at 7:00 pm (book signing at 6:45): Bridget Bell & Lesley Wheeler with Golden Age Comedy

Bridget Bell’s debut poetry collection—All That We Ask of You Is to Always Be Happy (CavanKerry, 2025)—explores maternal mental health. She is the recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Artist Support Grant, and teaches composition and literature at Durham Technical Community College. Additionally, she pours pints at Ponysaurus Brewery and proofreads for Four Way Books. Originally from Toledo, Ohio, she is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence’s MFA program in creative writing.

Lesley Wheeler, Poetry Editor of Shenandoah, is the author of six poetry collections, including Mycocosmic (Tupelo Press, March 2025) and The State She’s In. Her other books include the hybrid memoir Poetry’s Possible Worlds and the novel Unbecoming. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poets & Writers, Pleiades, Poetry, Ecotone, and Massachusetts Review. photo by Anne Valerie