Mud in Our Mouths Launch Party

Welcome to the Mud in Our Mouths Launch Party!

Celebrate the second collection of poetry from award-winning poet Luiza Flynn-Goodlett at KGB Bar in the East Village.

Featuring readings from:

• Alicia Mountain (she/her) is the author of Four in Hand and High Ground Coward. She holds a MFA from the University of Montana and a PhD from the University of Denver. Mountain serves on the board of Foglifter. She is training as a psychoanalyst at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Mountain is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Writer’s Foundry MFA at St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn.
• Noah Arhm Choi (they/them) is the author of Cut to Bloom, winner of the 2019 Write Bloody Prize. A Lambda Literary Writer in Schools, they received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence, and their work has appeared in Adroit, The Rumpus, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. Noah was shortlisted for the Poetry International Prize and received the Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize, alongside fellowships and residencies from Kundiman, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Adirondack Center for Writing.
• Miller Oberman (he/him) is the author of Impossible Things, from Duke University Press, 2024 and The Unstill Ones, Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 2017. He has received a number of awards for his poetry, including a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the 92Y Discovery Prize, and a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship. Miller's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, The Hopkins Review, Poem-a-Day, and Foglifter. He teaches writing at Eugene Lang College at The New School in New York. Miller is a trans Jewish anti-Zionist committed to the liberation of all. He lives with his family in New York.
• jason b. crawford (They/He) born in Washington DC and raised in Lansing, MI, is the author of Year of the Unicorn Kidz. Their second collection, YEET! is the winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize and will be published Fall 2025. They have been published in POETRY Magazine, Academy of American Poets, Cincinnati Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO Poetry, among others. The are a 2023 Emerging Writers Fellow for Lambda Literary and hold their MFA in Poetry from The New School.

And, of course, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (she/her), who is the author of Mud in Our Mouths (Northwestern University Press, 2025) and Look Alive (winner of the 2019 Cowles Poetry Book Prize from Southeast Missouri State University Press), along with numerous chapbooks, most recently Familiar (Madhouse Press, 2024). Her poetry can be found in Fugue, Poetry Northwest, Third Coast, and elsewhere. She serves as a poetry editor for the Whiting Award–winning LGBTQIA2S+ literary journal and press Foglifter.