Meet the Readers: Eric Shoemaker

Robert Eric Shoemaker is a poet, translator, and interdisciplinary artist. Eric is the author of Magical Poetics (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming), Ca'Venezia (2021, Partial Press), We Knew No Mortality (2018, Acta Publications), and 30 Days Dry (2015, Thought Collection Publishing). Eric’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Translation. His work has been published in Rain Taxi, Zone 3, Spoon River Poetry Review, and other venues. He writes queer poems about magic spells and sometimes ghosts, and his cat is named after Federico García Lorca. Follow him at reshoemaker.com.

Please join Eric and our other incredible readers on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.