Join us on April 9th for an intimate evening with 2025 Eros Artist Fellow, Musu Bangura. This showcase marks the culmination of their time as the Eros Artist Fellow, featuring a poetry reading and burlesque performance, followed by a brief Q&A. Zines and broadsides will be available for sale, alongside free zines to take and share.

About Musu

Musu Bangura is an artist originally from Washington, D.C. and currently residing in Chicago, Illinois. They are the author of the essay-book “…Considers Lil’ Kim’s Hard Core.” Their work has been published in New Delta Review, Apogee Journal, Southeast Review, and more. In 2020, they were selected as a 2020 Best of the Net Poetry finalist. Musu is a teaching artist at the Chicago Poetry Center, and has served as a judge for three years at Poetry Out Loud’s City and Metro Regionals. Musu began taking classes at HOTL in 2022 and…