Events

Ongoing Series: Last Thursday

Last Thursday at Hyde Bros Books: Thursday, Oct 30th at 7pm featuring readers Kaymon Noble (aka the perilous poet), Jo Trier-Walker and Dr. Louise Weber

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.

The October reading will occur on Thursday, October 30th at 7pm and feature readers Kaymon Noble (aka the Perilous Poet), Jo Trier-Walker, & Dr. Louise Weber.

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

Kaymon writes because he likes the challenge. Poetry is his way of channeling emotions, turning raw feeling into vivid expression. His verses are often introspective and tinged with pain as he explores and confronts the complexities of his inner world, but he sees it as a way to cope and to share something uniquely his in a peculiar way. Music, especially the raw energy of metal and the openness of rappers like Eminem, has always influenced him. He loves the way both genres convey their pain without being too upfront, which translates well to poetry. It's about finding strength through vulnerability - showing the depths of his struggle in a way that others can connect with, even if they don't see him. When he's not writing, you can find him at the gym, pushing his body just like he pushes his mind. The discipline and focus he brings to physical training mirror how he approaches life and creativity - always seeking to bring the darkness to light, finding strength and meaning in every challenge.

Jo Trier-Walker is a mother, poet, yarb woman and herbalist, walker, dreamer, animal-lover, mushroom hunter, bassoon-maker, Star Wars and Lilith fan, and all-around odd person. She is the author of two chapbooks: Trembling Ourselves into Trees (Horse Less Press) and One Winter Night in the Pines (The Dandelion Review). Jo is the winner of the 2016 Permafrost New Alchemy Contest, and her work can be found in jubilat, New American Writing, Salt Hill, Tupelo Quarterly, and inter|rupture, among others. Her most recent project combats the paralysis and hopelessness of life under fascism by bringing together politics and current events with the truths of dreams, the body, and ancient wisdoms including astrology, magical practices, mythology, and the wisdom of animals, plants, mushrooms, and the land. Her aim is that the reader of this project can banish anxiety and feel moved to stand up and fight with their entire being, from heart to body to spirit to mind to soul and beyond, to our communities and environments we exist within.

Lou Weber is a native of Fort Wayne and a professor of Biology and Environmental Science at the University of Saint Francis. She holds graduate degrees in both ecology and psychology and specializes in the fields of ecopsychology and ecotherapy. These embrace the idea that time in nature brings enlightenment, healing, and peace. Healing self while healing Earth and other aspects of reciprocity provide the philosophy when she works with groups and classes outdoors. Nature as healing is one of the main themes of her ecology textbook, Understanding Nature: Ecology for a New Generation published in 2023. She is the first woman in the world, in history to first-author an ecology textbook and we will hear her read from that book now.