Exhibit B @ PCB – Nov. ’24

ExB’s last show of 2024! Sam Herschel Wein, Emily Anna Maciel Gonzalez, Sarah Peecher and Emilio Maldonado will be joining Exhibit B at Pilsen Community Books for an evening of readings and community.

Artist Bios:

Sarah Peecher is a poet living, working, and teaching undergraduate writing in Chicago. She’s been a reader for Unwoven Literary Magazine, co-curates poetry and artwork for Off the Page, and co-hosted two seasons of the podcast Juxtapose. Her debut chapbook, Keeling, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2025. At the end of a busy day, you can find her cuddling her cats, Rumpus and Ruckus.

Emilio Maldonado is a poet and performer born and raised in Chicago’s concrete jungle, where streets bury streets. As a world traveler with familial roots in Mexico, he writes for the world, the everyman, with poems also layered in the collisions of culture, and the music, and the late night streets of anywhere alone.

Emily Anna Maciel Gonzalez has been a chatterbox since the womb, born and raised on the Southside of Chicago. She is a poet, avid storyteller, advocate for local politics and most importantly a White Sox fan. As of lately she resides in Wicker Park with her pet rabbit, Scorpio. By day she is a bilingual PreK 3-5 teacher and nanny. By night she is a dive bar enthusiast, trivia champion and host of Do Not Submit Humboldt/Wicker.

Sam Herschel Wein (pronouns: he/they) is a lollygagging plum of a poet who specializes in perpetual frolicking. They have an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee and were the recipient of a 2022 Pushcart Prize. They have published three chapbooks, most recently Butt Stuff Flower Bush with Porkbelly Press. He co-founded and edits Underblong. Recent poems can be found in the American Poetry Review, The Cincinnati Review, and Shenandoah, among others. They can be found in the cheese aisle of most stores, in the middle of a hug, or editing poems at your local coffee shop.