Award-winning Authors Elizabeth Berg and Nathan Hoks
Wed, Apr 29
|The Book Loft Oak Park
Berg and Hoks will bring us two new collections of poetry that fuse humor with emotional urgency in the face of current political and ecological landscapes.


Time & Location
Apr 29, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
The Book Loft Oak Park, 1047 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60301, USA
About the event
Award-winning authors Nathan Hoks and Elizabeth Zuba bring us two new collections of poetry that fuse humor with emotional urgency in the face of current political and ecological landscapes. Nathan Hoks' fourth book, Moony Days of Being, inhabits a world of flammable metaphors and spiritual fog machines, delivering poems that are part elegy, part glitch, part lunar broadcast. By turns humorous, mournful, and defiant, this is a book of hallucinatory clarity—a poetic landscape where sorrow coexists with wild associative joy, and even a millipede is holy. Elizabeth Zuba's new book Where is Everyone! thrillingly reorients perceptions of our natural world, our place in that world and our relationship to ourselves and each other. With a table of contents resembling Montaigne's, this "scientific companion" sings with both revolutionary spirit and frolicsome mirth, forging a whole new verdant poetics that revels in interdependence, impermanence, and the boundless mysteries of existence. Hoks and Zuba are joined by poet and artist Fred Schmalz, author of Action in the Orchards, who will be…
