An Evening with Rescue Press featuring readings and a conversation with Rescue’s writers, editors, and designers. The program will begin with brief readings from each of the participants, which will be followed by a conversation focused on various aspects of publication.

Caryl Pagel (Editor-in-Chief and cofounder of Rescue Press; poet and essayist)

Daniel Khalastchi (Managing Editor and cofounder of Rescue Press; poet)

Sevy Perez (Creative Director, Rescue Press; artist and designer)

Zach Savich (Open Prose Editor, Rescue Press; poet and essayist)

Hilary Plum (Open Prose Editor, Rescue Press; essayist and fiction writer)

Alyssa Perry (Assistant Editor, Rescue Press; poet)

Marc Rahe (Rescue Press author; three books by Rescue, most recently Gravity Well)

Rescue Press is an editor-run small press founded in the winter of 2009 in Milwaukee, halfway between Woodland Pattern Book Center and Lake Michigan. Currently based in Iowa City, Chicago, and Cleveland, with national distribution and readership, Rescue Press values experimentation, conversation, care, and idiosyncrasy.

Presented as part of Small Press Appreciation, an ongoing series celebrating small-press culture and the groundbreaking role independent publishers play in making space for new writers and literatures.

Reading & Conversation: Rescue Press