# Event Details

- **Event Name**: OUR HUMAN SHORES Midwest Tour - Josh Fomon, BJ Soloy, Julien Rouse @ The Atlas Collective
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 15 Feb, 2026 at 01:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Free Reading at The Atlas Collective, featuring Josh Fomon, BJ Soloy, and Julien Rouse. 1-2pm Sunday, Feb. 15. Don't sleep!

About OUR HUMAN SHORES

Our Human Shores explores living in the Anthropocene, the 
ecological disasters life faces, and the barriers and inequality 
society faces in trying to create a better and livable world. 
Our Human Shores is an exploration into how language is rooted 
within the Anthropocene — and how poetry shapes meaning
making, faith in people and institutions, and death through 
lyricism, experiment, and ecopoetics.  

Using a phrase from John Keats’ “Bright Star” sonnet, Our Human 
Shores explores a tautology of thresholds and shores to remake our world, our experience of nature, and our relationship with climate, creation, and humankind’s existential place in a world staring down the apocalypse. Our Human Shores is a speculative work that will guide humanity 
through extinction. 

“In Our Human Shores, Josh Fomon takes on the difficult situation of our country and world in a voice that vibrates between prophetic and private, apocalyptic and lyrical. If it's Whitmanesque it's the Whitman of the  radical Latin American poets. Fomon's poems mourn, hope, and struggle.  His language is sensuous, glistering. When I read it, I can feel the words in  my mouth.” —Johannes Goransson, author of The New Quarantine 

BIOS: 

Josh Fomon is the author of Though We Bled Meticulously, also published  by Black Ocean. His poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including Afternoon Visitor, Caketrain, DIAGRAM, DREGINALD, The Georgia  Review, jubilat, mercury firs, Poetry Northwest, TYPO, and Yalobusha Review. He lives on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples in Seattle.

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BJ Soloy is the author of Birth Center in Corporate Woods (2025, Black Lawrence Press), Our Pornography & other disaster songs (2019, Slope Editions), and the chapbook Selected Letters (2016, New Michigan Press). There’s also some recent work in Gigantic Sequins, At Length, and Painted Bride Quarterly.

He somehow lives in Des Moines, Iowa, home of the Whatever the Hell, where he teaches at a community college and a women's prison while weeping daily into the news's dirty hair.

Some marketing material Birth Center in Corporate Woods:

https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/birth-center-in-corporate-woods/

https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2019/06/bj-soloy-our-pornography-and-other.html

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Julien Rouse lives in Des Moines with their partner and son. They have had poems published in such journals as Denver Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, Arsenic Lobster, decomP, and Sprung Formal, among others, and they have work forthcoming in Peripheries, a journal out of Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions. Their chapbook, Boy, was published by Dancing Girl Press. Their most recent work, exploring trans identity, place, and belonging, was written as a capstone project for the One Iowa Leadership Institute. Julien holds an MFA from the University of Montana.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/moline/our-human-shores-midwest-tour-josh-fomon-bj-soloy-julien-rouse-the-atlas-collective/200029569478915
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 22

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Moline
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: The Atlas Collective - Brews & Books
- **lat**: 41.507866237089
- **long**: -90.512264370918
- **full address**: The Atlas Collective - Brews & Books, 18 St & 5 Ave, 498 18th St, Moline, IL 61265, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is OUR HUMAN SHORES Midwest Tour - Josh Fomon, BJ Soloy, Julien Rouse @ The Atlas Collective being held?
  - **A:** OUR HUMAN SHORES Midwest Tour - Josh Fomon, BJ Soloy, Julien Rouse @ The Atlas Collective takes place on Sun, 15 Feb, 2026 at 01:00 pm to Sun, 15 Feb, 2026 at 01:00 pm at The Atlas Collective - Brews & Books, 18 St & 5 Ave, 498 18th St, Moline, IL 61265, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing OUR HUMAN SHORES Midwest Tour - Josh Fomon, BJ Soloy, Julien Rouse @ The Atlas Collective?
  - **A:** OUR HUMAN SHORES Midwest Tour - Josh Fomon, BJ Soloy, Julien Rouse @ The Atlas Collective is organized by Midwest Writing Center.

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