When: Monday, 3/31/25, 5pm

Come celebrate the launch of Sarah's debut full-length poetry collection, Cosmic Tantrum! Followed by a brief reading, Sarah and Jes will discuss the book's threads of spirituality, ritual, and the psyche, and take audience questions. Signing to follow, a limited number of copies will be available for purchase in store.

Cosmic Tantrum (Curbstone Books, 2025) is a tragicomic exploration of codependent and transactional relationships: economies of shame, gifts as debts, businesses run like families, and families run like businesses. What transgressions and abuses do we believe are acceptable fees for safety or love, and who upholds these myths? The poems in this collection examine how our most intimate relationships shape the way we move through the wider world—and what happens when we reject the stories we’ve inherited about our worth.

Attendance is free, advanced registration required.

Sarah Lyn Rogers (she/her) is an NYC-based writer, editor, and tarot reader from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her editing credits include books for Soft Skull Press, short stories and personal essays for Catapult magazine, fiction for The Rumpus, and serving as series co-editor for the annual anthology Best Debut Short Stories: The PEN America Dau Prize. She is the author of the chapbooks Inevitable What (Sad Spell Press, 2016) and Autocorrect Suggests “Tithe” (Ghost City Press, 2021) and the Catapult column Internet as Intimacy. She was the 2014 winner of the Academy of American Poets' Virginia de Araujo Prize, as well as a finalist for the 2019 St. Lawrence Book Award. Her debut full-length collection, Cosmic Tantrum, is out this February from Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press. For more Sarah, visit sarahlynrogers.com.

Jes Baker (she/they) is a white, fat, queer, femme creative who joyfully works at the crossroads of somatics, spirituality, and psychology. She often does this work as a coach, writer, speaker, facilitator, folk magic practitioner, and lifelong student. Jes has been internationally recognized for their writing on their blog The Militant Baker, their literary debut Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls, memoir Landwhale, and digital campaigns. Jes's work has drawn coverage across the world from hundreds of media outlets including CNN, The Today Show, and the BBC. Jes's current work includes exploring and unlearning colonial ideas, tending the wounds created by systems of power, and offering ways to rediscover our inherent belonging and interconnectedness.

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