Hungry Brain
2319 W. Belmont
Chicago, IL 60618
United States
Free and open to the public. 21 and over.
Join Hungry Brain for their monthly Sunday Reading Series: Poetry, Prose, & Cocktails. The July event will feature John McCarthy (Scared Violent Like Horses, 2019).
John McCarthy
John McCarthy is the author of Scared Violent Like Horses, selected by Victoria Chang as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, and Ghost Country, named a Best Poetry Book of 2016 by the Chicago Review of Books. He serves as an editor of RHINO magazine and the Quiddity international literary journal and public radio program.
Selected by Victoria Chang, this winner of the Jake Adam York Prize is a deeply personal examination of violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being.