Please join us online for the launch of Madness by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, now out from Nightboat Books! Accompanying Ojeda-Sagué are the great poets Alli Warren and Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, who will read from recent work. Madness takes the form of a selected poems of a fictional poet, Luis Montes-Torres, a gay Cuban exile who makes a name for himself in the world of poetry before the contours of his ordinary life become overwhelming, stilted, and impossible. The poems and biographical commentary reveal the unpredictable wavering between anxiety and attachment, between the political and the personal, that accompanies any American life marked by difference. Madness is a study in how pleasure, crisis, wonder, disappointment, love, and fantasy are written into our forms for living.

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Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué is a poet and writer living in Chicago. He is most recently the author of _Losing Miami_ (The Accomplices, 2019) and co-editor of _An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979-1989_, both of which were finalists for Lambda Literary Awards. His fourth poetry book, _Madness_, is out from Nightboat Books. He is currently a PhD student in English at the University of Chicago where he works in the study of sexuality.

Alli Warren‘s most recent book is _Sundial_ (Nion Editions, 2021). Previous books include _Little Hill_ (City Lights, 2020), _I Love It Though_ (Nightboat Books, 2017), and _Here Come the Warm Jets_ (City Lights, 2013). Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Harpers, Poetry, The Brooklyn Rail, and BOMB. She has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005.

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He is the co-editor of Puerto Rico en mi corazón (Anomalous Press) and the translator of Dinapiera Di Donato’s Collateral / Colaterales (Akashic Press / National Poetry Series). His first collection of poems is The Life Assignment (Four Way Books), a finalist for the Norma Faber First Book Prize and one of Remezcla’s 2020’s Best Books by Latine or Latin American Authors. A recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Queer|Arts|Mentorship and CantoMundo, he serves as the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center’s Managing Director.