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Family portrait of EVERYTHING IS IN SEARCH OF EQUILIBRIUM by eso malflor (@esomalflor ), released on 11/18/25. EVERYTHING IS IN SEARCH OF EQUILIBRIUM (chapbook) and “Walking Amalgamation” numbered art print (ed. of 50). Available on the @echothreadprojects website (link in bio). • #esomalflor #UnLugarLejos #EchoThreadBooks #EchoThreadProjects #Poetry #chapbook #artprint

Family portrait of the complete “Un Lugar Lejos” experience by Gregg Yupanki Bautista, released 7/28/24. Un Lugar Lejos: Valleys (chapbook), Un Lugar Lejos EP (physical CD), and “The Prophet” numbered art print (ed. of 50). Available at the @echothreadprojects shop (link in bio) & at reading events/Yupanki shows. • @greggyupankibautista @yupanki.sounds #GreggYupankiBautista #YupankiSounds #UnLugarLejos #EchoThreadBooks #EchoThreadProjects #Poetry #Fiction #chapbook #artprint

Announcing our next session of Poets & Storytellers Open. We’ll be gathering at Wull & Oak in Downtown Hopewell on May 8th for an evening of poetry and conversation. P&SO welcomes everyone to bring their ORIGINAL poetry or prose, polished or in progress, to this wonderful space. We love the poetry hits and the standards, but P&SO is a space for writers performing or working out their original pieces. The open mic signup list will be capped at 12 readers. The list does fill up quickly, so be sure to arrive on time to secure a spot! Each performer will have up to 5 minutes to share their work. For those who would only like to watch the performances, you’re more than welcome to also join our audience. The event is free and open for all to enjoy, but we do welcome donations to help keep the event funded. Joining us as our feature for our May session of P&SO is JR Engalla (@selengvllv ) from out in Jersey City. Per JR, he’s just another Filipino-American born and raised in Jersey City off West Side Avenue. He’s still writing a better bio, but for now, he’s a writer that’s dusting off his pen, examining his landscape, and hopefully, sharing work that resonates. As usual for our poet features, we’ll have a Q&A session following the Indigo’s set. Details for the evening: 6:50 PM - doors/open mic signup begins* 7:15 to 8:15 PM - open mic 8:30 to 9:00 PM - featured poet: JR Engalla Wull & Oak is located at: 10 E. Broad St. Hopewell, NJ Light refreshments will be provided. See you there! *Please be mindful that W&O closes at 6PM on Friday evenings, and we use the next 50 minutes to rearrange and set up the space before opening back up for the event. #EchoThreadBooks #WullAndOak #PoetsAndStorytellersOpen #PaSO #poetryopenmic @wullandoak @downtownhopewell

Exciting update: we picked up a stack of copies of Pink Elephant (Button Poetry, 2026) for our upcoming poetry event! We hope you’ll join us in Hopewell on Friday, April 24th as we gather for a reading by Rachel McKibbens (Camacho) @vulturekiss in celebration of Pink Elephant. Q&A and book signing to follow. Many thanks to our friends at @farleysbookshop for ordering these for us, and going an extra mile to also order a few copies of Rachel’s last book, blud (Copper Canyon Press, 2017). Both books will be available for purchase the evening of the event. If you haven’t signed up yet, we still have some seats left. Head over to our site (link in bio) for more event info and tickets. Date & Time: Friday, April 24th @ 7:00 PM Venue: Wull & Oak - 10 E Broad St. Hopewell, NJ Tickets: $10 See you there! #EchoThreadProjects #EchoThreadBooks #RachelMcKibbens #RachelCamacho #poetry

Spring is here, the daylight is lasting a little longer, and we’re grateful for nature to be blossoming again (not that winter isn’t beautiful). Thank you to the readers and audience who joined us for April’s Poets & Storytellers Open. We’re excited to have been able to host Colby Cedar Smith (@colby_cedar_smith ) for the evening as our featured poet. In a time where women’s experiences and autonomy are being stripped of meaningful support and acknowledgement, Colby’s set was a reminder of the beauty and strength and life that women carry within them. We’re still thinking about how the room felt after such a heartfelt message, which was followed by a wonderful conversation about discovering one’s voice by stepping outside of the conventional poet’s trajectory, the endurance of writing novel-length verse, and tapping into divinity and the goddess as guides for inspiration. Wull & Oak, we’re always grateful for your wonderful shop for hosting us. Everyone else, keep coming out and making this space something special. As always, make sure to out for your neighbors and take care of one another. See you next month. #EchoThreadBooks #PoetsAndStorytellersOpen #Poetry #poetryopenmic #downtownhopewell njpoetry EchoThreadProjects

Echo Thread Projects is thrilled to invite Rachel McKibbens (@vulturekiss ) to Hopewell, NJ on Friday, April 24th at 7PM. Rachel will be reading from the highly anticipated re-release of her critically acclaimed poetry debut, Pink Elephant. She is a two-time New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow and misfit educator with three acclaimed full-length books of poetry: blud (2017), Into the Dark & Emptying Field (2013), and Pink Elephant (2009, re-released in 2026.) Following the reading, there will be a Q&A session and a book signing. Copies of Pink Elephant will also be available at the event for purchase, courtesy of @farleysbookshop . Tickets are available through our website or the link in bio. Seating is limited. Venue: Wull & Oak - 10 E Broad St. Hopewell, NJ Date: 4/24/2026 Doors: 7pm Tickets: $10 * Echo Thread Projects aims to keep poetry and the arts accessible for all, and the cover price helps us to continue organizing programming like this. If the ticket cost is a barrier for attending, please reach out to us.

Announcing our April session of Poets & Storytellers Open! Join us on Friday, April 10th in Downtown Hopewell, NJ at the one and only Wull & Oak. P&SO welcomes everyone to bring their ORIGINAL poetry or prose, polished or in progress, to this wonderful space. We love the poetry hits and the standards, but P&SO is a space for writers performing or working out their original pieces. The open mic signup list will be capped at 12 readers. Reminder, the list does fill up quickly, so be sure to arrive on time to secure a spot! Each performer will have up to 5 minutes to share their work. For those who would only like to watch the performances, you’re more than welcome to also join our audience. The event is free and open for all to enjoy, but we do welcome donations to help keep the event funded. We’re looking forward to welcoming local Hopewell author Colby Cedar Smith (@colby_cedar_smith ) as our featured poet this month! Colby is an award-winning poet, novelist, and educator and the author of two verse novels The Siren and The Star (2025) and Call Me Athena (2021). Her lyric work focuses on the untold stories of women throughout history, and often explores themes of body, gender, and identity, while incorporating images from the natural world. As usual for our poet features, we’ll have a Q&A session following the Indigo’s set. Details for the evening: 6:50 PM - doors/open mic signup begins* 7:15 to 8:15 PM - open mic 8:30 to 9:00 PM - featured poet: Colby Cedar Smith Wull & Oak is located at: 10 E. Broad St. Hopewell, NJ Light refreshments will be provided. See you there! *Please be mindful that W&O closes at 6PM on Friday evenings, and we use the next 50 minutes to rearrange and set up the space before opening back up for the event. #EchoThreadBooks #WullAndOak #PoetsAndStorytellersOpen #PaSO #poetryopenmic @wullandoak @downtownhopewell

Thank you to everyone who came out to read and spend the evening with us for our March session of Poets & Storytellers Open. We’ve been looking forward to having our good friend J. T. Trigonis (@trigonis ) come out for some time now, and he performed a wonderful set of poems from his new book, Through the Wreckage, and some extras. Afterwards, we sat and talked about cars and metaphor, growing as an artist through experiencing rejection, balancing a life of many roles, and our love for NJ diners. Many thanks to all again, unending thanks to Wull & Oak for the space to hold our poetry event, and we’ll see you at the next one! As always, make sure to out for your neighbors. Community is more than just a space, it’s action. #EchoThreadBooks #PoetsAndStorytellersOpen #Poetry #poetryopenmic #downtownhopewell

March is coming up quick! Poets & Storytellers Open will be upon us before we know it. Join us on Friday, March 13th in Downtown Hopewell, NJ at the one and only Wull & Oak. P&SO welcomes everyone to bring their ORIGINAL poetry or prose, polished or in progress, to this wonderful space. We love the poetry hits and the standards, but P&SO is a space for writers performing or working out their original pieces. The open mic signup list will be capped at 12 readers. Reminder, the list does fill up quickly, so be sure to arrive on time to secure a spot! Each performer will have up to 5 minutes to share their work. For those who would only like to watch the performances, you’re more than welcome to also join our audience. The event is free and open for all to enjoy, but we do welcome donations to help keep the event funded. We are excited for the invited March feature, our good friend, J.T. Trigonis! (@trigonis ) J.T. (he/him) has been a neon troubadour of the written and spoken word since the 1990s. His poetry and flash fiction have been published in over 60 literary journals (and online), and he has headlined at over 40 venues across the tri-state area. Trigonis also plays master of ceremonies at WAYE: A Poetry Reading Series and is the editorial director of By the WAYEmagazine. His chapbook of selected poetry, Through the Wreckage, was published in 2026 by Finishing Line Press. As usual for our poet features, we’ll have a Q&A session following the J.T.’s set. Details for the evening: 6:50 PM - doors/open mic signup begins* 7:15 to 8:15 PM - open mic 8:30 to 9:00 PM - featured poet: J.T. Trigonis Wull & Oak is located at: 10 E. Broad St. Hopewell, NJ Light refreshments will be provided. See you there! *Please be mindful that W&O closes at 6PM on Friday evenings, and we use the next 50 minutes to rearrange and set up the space before opening back up for the event. #EchoThreadBooks #WullAndOak #PoetsAndStorytellersOpen #PaSO #poetryopenmic @wullandoak @downtownhopewell

Grateful to all who came out to attend our February session of Poets & Storytellers Open, to everyone who read, and to Indigo Speaks (@indigospeaks ) for bringing her poetry and presence to our space. Indigo delivered a powerful set of spoken word, then sat down with us to talk about her entry into the spoken word world, her embodiment of the craft, and ideas of self love and growth from wounds. An incredible evening overall. Thank you all again, thank you Wull & Oak for the space to hold our poetry event, and until the next one! Don’t forget… Look out for your neighbors. Take care of one another. #EchoThreadBooks #PoetsAndStorytellersOpen #Poetry #poetryopenmic #downtownhopewell njpoetry EchoThreadProjects

Announcing February’s session of Poets & Storytellers! Join us on Friday February 13th in Downtown Hopewell, NJ at the one and only Wull & Oak. P&SO welcomes everyone to bring their ORIGINAL poetry or prose, polished or in progress, to this wonderful space. We love the poetry hits and the standards, but P&SO is a space for writers performing or working out their original pieces. The open mic signup list will be capped at 12 readers. Reminder, the list does fill up quickly, so be sure to arrive on time to secure a spot! Each performer will have up to 5 minutes to share their work. For those who would only like to watch the performances, you’re more than welcome to also join our audience. The event is free and open for all to enjoy, but we do welcome donations to help keep the event funded. Our February feature is Indigo Speaks (@indigospeaks ), who we had the pleasure of meeting and seeing perform at the HP Poetry Festival back in December. Indigo is a slam poet and performance artist born in New York City and raised between Camden and Philadelphia. She has been writing performing and competing since the age of 16. Her work is grounded in conceptual craft, emotional precision, and disciplined structure, using various tools to challenge conventional slam forms. Indigo is known for performances that balance stillness with intensity, with her style emphasizing tension, intentional pacing, and psychological impact. Her work explores identity, language, trauma, lineage, and selfhood with a voice that is both intimate and incisive. As usual for our poet features, we’ll have a Q&A session following the Indigo’s set. Details for the evening: 6:50 PM - doors/open mic signup begins* 7:15 to 8:15 PM - open mic 8:30 to 9:00 PM - featured poet: Indigo Speaks Wull & Oak is located at: 10 E. Broad St. Hopewell, NJ Light refreshments will be provided. See you there! *Please be mindful that W&O closes at 6PM on Friday evenings, and we use the next 50 minutes to rearrange and set up the space before opening back up for the event. #EchoThreadBooks #WullAndOak #PoetsAndStorytellersOpen #PaSO #poetryopenmic @wullandoak @downtownhopewell

A look back on our first P&SO of 2026. We’re grateful to everyone who came out to support and to share their work. Thank you to our featured poet Hugo dos Santos (@hugofdossantos ) for sharing his poetry and taking us through passages of his upcoming collection, Reduction in Force, and for sitting down with us afterwards for a wonderful conversation about his poetry and navigating experiences and ideas around labor and self-perception in relation to labor that led to the writing of his collection. Thank you all again, and we’ll see you soon. Keep looking out for one another. #EchoThreadBooks #PoetsAndStorytellersOpen #Poetry #poetryopenmic #echothreadprojects