Please join us to celebrate the release of Night Painting by Kostas Anagnopoulos, published by Cuneiform Press ~ with a reading curated by Ann Stephenson. 

Kostas Anagnopoulos was born in Chicago on November 20, 1974.  His first book of poetry, Moving Blanket, was published by Ugly Duckling Press in 2010 and his second full-length collection, Night Painting, was released by Cuneiform in 2026. He is the proprietor of two stores and a restaurant, Pidgin, Norman Hasselriis and Hamlet. In the long-standing tradition of poets publishing poets, he runs the small press Insurance Editions. Anagnopoulos also volunteers at his local library where he leads Poet Hour, a free intergenerational reading and writing program. He divides his time between Rensselaerville, New York, and Jackson Heights, Queens. 

Ann Stephenson is a writer and the founder & editor of Tent Editions, as well as founder & curator of the series READINGS AT PARKSIDE at The Parkside Lounge. She is an event curator at large for several organizations including the Fire Island Artist Residency, Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, and currently for poetry programming at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation.