Meet Me There: Featuring Cavar and Max Delsohn

This event takes place on crowdcast, Charis’ virtual event platform. Register here – https://www.crowdcast.io/c/septmeetmethere
“Meet Me There” is a monthly intergenerational poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction experience curated by trans/genderqueer poet and sound artist Samuel Ace. Writers exploring genre and gender boundaries will be a special focus of this series. Some months our readings will take place at Charis Books with an option to watch virtually, and some months the event will be fully virtual, so be sure to check the listing!
September’s featured writers are Cavar and Max Delsohn in celebration of their books, Differential Diagnosis and Crawl: Stories.
Featured Writers
[sarah] Cavar is the author of the novel Failure to Comply (featherproof books, 2024) and the poetry collection Differential Diagnosis (Northwestern University Press, 2026). They edit manywor(l)ds.place, and have had work featured in Electric Lit, Passages North, The Rumpus, The Offing, and elsewhere. Cavar holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and Science & Technology Studies from the University of California, Davis, and can be found online at www.cavar.club.
Max Delsohn is the author of CRAWL, a short story collection about trans men living in Seattle during the 2010s. It was a November Indie Next List pick and a Best Book of 2025 from Vulture, Them, Electric Literature, Debutiful, and Chicago Review of Books. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, VICE, Joyland, Triangle House and elsewhere. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
Host & Curator
Samuel Ace is a trans/genderqueer writer and sound artist. His latest books are I want to start by saying (Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2024), Our Weather Our Sea (Black Radish 2019), and Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash. (Belladonna* 2019). Ace is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writer Award and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry, as well as a repeat finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. Recent work can be found in Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems that Matter Most, Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry, Fence, BathHouse, The Texas Review, Poetry, We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetry, Best American Experimental Poetry, and many other journals and anthologies.
The event is free and open to all people, but we encourage and appreciate a donation of $5-20 in support of the work of Charis Circle, our programming non-profit. Donate on Crowdcast or via our website: www.chariscircle.org/donate.
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