The Body Has Teeth: A Reading & Conversation

BOLD is thrilled to host The Body Has Teeth: A Reading & Conversation with Amy Baskin, David Loring Nash, Anthony DiPietro, and Summer Stewart.

Four writers enter the dark from different doors. Anthony DiPietro’s poems move through gay love, sex, and the strange repetitions of desire. Amy Baskin gives Lilith—the first woman, cast as demon—her fierce voice. Summer Stewart’s poems and essays expose the scripts written onto women’s bodies and lives. In David Loring Nash’s Northwoods, witchcraft, revenge, and human folly wait just beyond the treeline. Join them for a reading, followed by a conversation led by Summer Stewart.

Amy Baskin is an Oregon Literary Arts Fellow and 4-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She is the author of Hysterical Cake (Dancing Girl Press, 2022), Night Hag (Unsolicited Press, 2023), which explores femininity through the eternal voice of Lilith, the first woman, and Skull (The Poetry Box, 2024), a journey of healing from brain injury. Two novels, Spice and Snake Head, will be published by Unsolicited Press in 2028. She works for the Departments of English, History, and Law & Policy at Lewis & Clark College and helps run literary arts programs, including the Fir Acres Writing Workshop and the Visiting Writers Series, which is open to the public. She serves as staff advisor for The Palatine Hill Review, a student-run literary journal.

David Loring Nash is an author and singer songwriter as well as a Minnesota Book Award Finalist (In Wells’ Time, Unsolicited Press 2024). His first novel, The Man in the Pines (Ten16 Press, 2020), is a reimagining of the story of Paul Bunyan. His most recent release is a collection of Northwoods, dark fiction called The Burntwood Anthology (Unsolicited Press, 2026). He lives in Minnesota and loves cold weather.

Anthony DiPietro is a queer, poly writer and arts administrator originally from Providence, Rhode Island. A graduate of Brown University with honors in creative writing, he also earned a creative writing MFA at Stony Brook University. Now serving as deputy director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, he resides in Worcester, MA. kiss & release (Unsolicited Press, 2024) is his debut collection and was longlisted for a Mass Book Award in Poetry. He is also the 2025 winner of the FrankO’Hara Prize from the Worcester County Poetry Association. His writing and readings are featured at: [www.AnthonyWriter.com](http://www.anthonywriter.com/), Instagram @ant.providence, and antprovidence.substack.com

Summer Stewart is an award-winning journalist, poet, and nonfiction writer with a weakness for sentences that have a little bite. She is the publisher and managing editor of Unsolicited Press, where she has spent more than a decade helping writers bring their work into sharper focus. She also writes If You Give a Girl a Book, a newsletter on writing and publishing. Summer holds an MFA in Poetry and Creative Writing from Portland State University.
Arrive at 6:00 p.m. to grab a snack or drink. The event will start at 6:30 p.m.

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Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.