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We’re putting on a full POETS ROYALE at The Bureau to celebrate Ryan Tracy’s latest collection PROVINCETOWN PURPLES and Chris Campanioni’s ROLLING WINDOWS. Heavy hitter Timothy Liu, author of 12 books of poetry, joins the lineup with Kyle Carrero Lopez, whose debut collection PARTY LINE was released this year. There will be readings, discussions, and signings at this poetry grand slam. 

Copies of the authors’ books will be available for purchase at the event. 

Ryan Tracy is the author of three books of poetry: Provincetown Purples (2026), Lines in the Shed (2025) and Tender Bottoms (2023). His poetry and fiction have appeared in PANK (2019 Pushcart Prize nomination for fiction), The Sugar House Review, Feral, Twin Bird Review, The Hyacinth Review, and Chronogram. Ryan performs, makes art, and teaches literature.

Chris Campanioni was born in Manhattan and grew up in a very nineties New Jersey. His research connecting migration and media studies has been recognized with the Calder Prize and two Mellon Foundation fellowships, and his writing has received the Pushcart Prize, International Latino Book Award, and Academy of American Poets College Prize. His essays, poetry, and fiction have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese and have found a home in several venues, including Best American Essays and Latin American Literature Today. Recent books include a creative nonfiction called north by north/west (West Virginia University Press, 2025), a monograph on migrant subjectivity called Drift Net (Lever Press, 2025), the poetry collections Windows 85 (Roof Books, 2024) and Rolling Windows (Roof Books, 2026), and VHS (CLASH Books, 2025), winner of the 2026 Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work.

Kyle Carrero Lopez’s debut full-length poetry collection PARTY LINE was published this July with Graywolf Press and has thus far been highlighted in V Magazine, The Harvard Review, New York Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Vogue, and elsewhere. He also serves as Editor for the Poetry Project Newsletter. 

Timothy Liu (Liu Ti Mo) was born in 1965 in San Jose, California to immigrant parents from Mainland China. He is the author of twelve books of poems, including Of Thee I Sing, selected by Publishers Weekly as a 2004 Book-of-the-Year; Say Goodnight, a 1998 PEN Open Book Margins Award; and Vox Angelica, which won the 1992 Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. He has also edited Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry.  Translated into a dozen languages, Liu’s poems have appeared in such places as Best American Poetry, Bomb, Kenyon Review, The Nation, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Pushcart Prize, Virginia Quarterly Review and The Yale Review. His journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. He teaches at SUNY New Paltz and Vassar College.

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