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Cozy Fest: Jes Battis + I Hate Parties
In their new collection I Hate Parties (Nightwood Editions), Jes Battis offers fifty poems that speak to growing up queer, autistic and nonbinary, and the social anxieties that come with the territory in a way that celebrates being awkward. For Cozy Fest, Jes reads a poem from the book called “My Boyfriend Names Every Bond Movie Chronologically.”
Jes Battis reads from I Hate Parties
(Nightwood Editions)
About our reader
Jes Battis (they/them) teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Regina. They’ve published poems in The Ex-Puritan, The Malahat Review, The Capilano Review  and Poetry Is Dead, among other literary magazines. They’ve also published creative nonfiction in The Los Angeles Review of Books and Strange Horizons. They are the author of the Occult Special Investigator  series (shortlisted for the Sunburst Award), the Parallel Parks series, The Winter Knight, and most recently, I Hate Parties, published by Nightwood Editions.Â
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Thanks to Jes for reading from their book for All Lit Up’s third-annual Cozy Fest! You can learn more about I Hate Parties and order from ALU or your fave local bookstore (via the Shop Local button), right here.
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