Events
Join Unbound Edition Press authors at the readings, panels, or receptions scheduled below.
Books are often available at the events, though it’s best to order a copy in advance through our store.
The NMB Reading Series: Austin Segrest & Marcus Myers
May 31, 2025 | 7:30 pm CDT
This month, poet Austin Segrest is visiting NMB from Wisconsin to read from his second collection of poetry, Groom (Unbound Edition Press, 2025). Through a masterful sequence that moves between past and present, Segrest’s poems map the complicated territory where mentorship blurs into manipulation, where desire tangles with control.
Attendees will also hear poems from Kansas City’s very own Marcus Myers, editor of Bear Review.
Join us as these poets delve into memory, the psyche, and beyond. There will be books for sale, refreshments, and mingling.
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Austin Segrest is the author of the poetry collections Groom (Unbound Edition Press, 2025) and Door to Remain, winner of the 2021 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize and the Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award. Originally from Alabama, he lives in Appleton, Wisconsin and teaches at Lawrence University.
Marcus Myers lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where he teaches, advises advanced students, and serves as co-founding and managing editor of Bear Review. Author of the chapbook Cloud Sanctum (Bottlecap Press 2022), his poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Common, Contemporary Verse 2, The Florida Review, Fourteen Hills, The Los Angeles Review, Mid-American Review, Pleiades, Poetry South, RHINO, Salt Hill, Southeast Review, and more.
No RSVP required
Map: The Livestock Exchange Building #750
1600 Genesse St, Kansas City, MO 64102
2025 CLMP Firecracker Awards Ceremony
June 26, 2025 | 6 pm EST
Revel, the literary journal from Unbound Edition Press, is honored to be named a Finalist for the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut.
Join us for the eleventh annual Firecracker Awards Ceremony, held virtually, where we’ll celebrate this year’s finalists and announce the winners in the categories of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry and the best literary magazines in the categories of debut and general excellence.
The Firecracker Awards for Independently Published Literature are given to honor books and magazines that make a significant contribution to our literary culture and the publishers that strive to introduce important voices to readers far and wide.
This virtual event is free and open to the public. Automated closed captioning will be available. If you have other accessibility requests, please contact Chelsea Kern at ckern@clmp.org.
