Join us Thursday, April 2, at 7:30 pm, for a poetry reading by Jacob Shores-Argüello in the exhibition Sheila Pepe: When & Where We Rest. Shores-Argüello is interested in overlapping spaces—the twilight between geologies, cultures, and languages, between humanity and the natural world. His reading will feature poetry and prose that celebrates neither work nor sleep, but the times in-between.

The reading will be followed by a brief conversation with Shores-Argüello and Pepe and light refreshments. This event is free and open to the public.

About Jacob Shores-Argüello

Jacob Shores-Argüello is a Costa Rican American poet and prose writer. He is the author of In The Absence of Clocks, which was awarded the 2011 Crab Orchard Series Open Competition, judged by Yusef Komunyakaa. Jacob is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, the Dzanc Books ILP International Literature Award, the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship in Provincetown, the Djerassi Resident Artist’s Fellowship, and the Amy Clampitt residency in Lenox, Massachusetts. His second book Paraíso was selected for the inaugural CantoMundo Poetry Prize judged by Aracelis Girmay. He is a 2018/2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, a Lannan Literary Fellow for Poetry, and a current 2024-2025 Rome Prize winner in Literature. His newest book Grief for the Green that Was will be out from the University of Arizona Press in late 2026.

His poetry appears in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, and The Academy of American Poets, among others. His fiction appears in The Oxford American, among others.