What: A low-falutin matinee presentation of words.

Who: Kiik A.K., Allie Moreno, Chris Nealon.

Kiik A.K. is affiliated with three UC’s — Berkeley, Davis, and San Diego — and one Santa Clara. He does not perform often. But when he does it is an awful performance. We would like him to get out more or even leave his bedroom. But his bedroom is where pornography is. Especially a naked cowboy riding a green tractor. Pricing is customized to your needs. Under normal circumstances something happens that obligates him to give all your money back. Contact Kiik for weddings, baptisms, funerals, circumcisions. But please never in that order. His limits may surprise you. As you watch a man die his foreskin turns to rust. The dust convulsing off a moth’s bulb paints the spirit in a thin gold film. Kiik is currently working on a collection of counter-internment narratives, tentatively titled, “EVERYDAY COLONIALISM.” His work has appeared or is forthcoming in iO, Washington Square, Alice Blue Review, Barge Press, The Brooklyner, Scythe, CutBank, and The Masters Review.

According to BuzzFeed quiz results, Allie Moreno’s classic author soul mate is Chekhov. If she were a font, she’d be a super twee handwriting font that nobody’s handwriting actually resembles. If she were to die on Game of Thrones, she’d be decapitated for believing in justice. The city she actually belongs in is Tokyo, but in real life, Allie lives in Escondido and writes poetry in the form of web content out of a cubicle at Hewlett-Packard.

Chris Nealon is the author of two books of literary criticism, Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall, and The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The American Century, as well as two books of poems, The Joyous Age and Plummet, and a recent chapbook, The Dial. His next book of poems, Heteronomy, will be out from Edge books later this year. He teaches in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University, and lives in Washington, DC.