The 64th season of the Plutzik Reading Series welcomes Christian Wessels. He will read from his recent works, answer questions and sign copies of his books, which will be available for purchase.

Wessels is a poet and critic. He is the author of Who Follow the Gleam (University of Massachusetts Press), winner of the 2025 Juniper Prize in Poetry. His poetry has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, and Conjunctions, among other such journals; his scholarship and criticism has appeared in Literary Imagination, Middle Eastern Literatures, and Los Angeles Review of Books. He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Stadler Center for Poetry. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Rochester, from which he received his PhD in English. He splits his time between Rochester and the Black Forest, Germany.

The Plutzik Reading Series is one of the most prestigious and longest running reading series in the country. Over the years, the Plutzik Series has featured a vast array of poets and fiction writers, the famous and not-yet famous. In keeping with Hyam Plutzik's generosity of spirit and commitment to bringing poetry to the community, the Plutzik Series readings have always been open to the public and offered free of charge.