Events

Ongoing Series: Last Thursday

Last Thursday at Hyde Brothers Booksellers Thursday April 24th 2025 at 7pm featuring readers Darcy Armstrong, Zac Bodine, and Amara Wiley.

Hyde Brothers, Booksellers is thrilled to kick off another season of our literary series, Last Thursday! This free event occurs at 7pm on the final Thursday of each month and is hosted in-store. Each event features at least two local authors who read their original poetry, prose, creative nonfiction, etc. in 15-20 minute installments with a brief intermission between readers.

Let’s celebrate National Poetry Month this month in the best way possible: by welcoming three fantastic local poets to our Last Thursday event!

The April reading will occur on Thursday, April 24th at 7pm and feature poets Darcy Armstrong, Zac Bodine, and Amara Wiley

For further information and updates, click the calendar icon above to be taken to our Facebook event page.

Interested in becoming a reader? Visit our Last Thursday page to get started!

Darcy Armstrong was born and raised in Auburn, and now lives in Fort Wayne with her spouse and four cats. She has been writing songs and poetry since she was little, and though she knows she would cringe, she wishes she still had her high school poetry journals. She is a librarian who is fiercely passionate about the arts, literacy, and intellectual freedom. In her spare time she enjoys writing and playing music, watching horror movies, and spending time in nature.

Zac Bodine is a poet and educator who lives in Fort Wayne, IN. He received a BA in Secondary Education from Moody Bible Institute and an MA in English Literature from Purdue Fort Wayne where he wrote his Master’s thesis over Theopoetics in Thomas Merton and Denise Levertov. He has written and performed poetry throughout Fort Wayne and has been published in Confluence Magazine. His most recent academic work, The Murder is the Message: Sensation Literature’s Influence on the Victorian Sermon, was presented at the 14th annual conference for the Victorian Popular Fiction Association.

Amara Wiley started a poetry club at her high school in Auburn and has been enamored with the medium ever since. Now in Fort Wayne, Amara is an event planner, musician, and co-host of the Fort Wayne Poetry Slam. She is published in Aerie International, Fort Wayne Poetry Slam Zine vol 1, and several of her own zines you might have seen on local bulletin boards and countertops. She is enchanted and haunted by her poeting and knows it is the most direct and vulnerable form of self-expression. Ideally you will be both soothed and rattled by Amara's work. She enjoys hiking, dancing, screaming, crying, and listening to His Royal Badness: Prince. The illustrious and phenomenal guitarist Jack Claypool collaborates with Amara tonight, while shining as both a solo singer-songwriter and part of the band Mauve.