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Please join the English department in celebrating PhD student Temperance Aghamohammadi upon the release of her new book "BATTALION SHAPED GIRL" at a reading with Chicago poet, Kai Ihns (Author of "Of").

Temperance Aghamohammadi is an Acolyte of the Exquisite. A trans Iranian-American poet, medium, and critic, she is the author of BATTALION SHAPED GIRL (DISCOUNT GUILLOTINE,  2025). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, New England Review, Fairy Tale Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. Her critical work is situated at the intersection of experimental poetry & poetics, as well as sound studies. She is an associate editor at RHINO Poetry, and has received support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Hailing from the Northeast, she currently haunts the Midwest.

Kai Ihns is a poet and filmmaker based in Chicago, where she recently completed a PhD at UChicago, studying a form of attentional prosody she calls “aspect choreography” in contemporary experimental poetry and film. She is the author of two books of poems, sundaey (Propeller Books, 2020), and Of (The Elephants, forthcoming fall 2024), as well as several pamphlets, most recently GREEN SKY (slub press, 2023), and Wednesday (The Creative Writing Department, 2023). She’s worked as an editor at Chicago Review and Fence, and currently helps with poetry and the Daily Poem email at The Paris Review.