Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
 **Critically acclaimed writer Tramaine Suubi follows up her debut _phases,_ with _stages_. This powerful meditation, inspired by Lucille Clifton, focuses on choices and changes throughout life, from Yellow Dwarf to Protostar.** In this breathtaking companion poetry collection, inspired by the evolution of our brightest star, Tramaine Suubi offers poems alluding to the history of how it came to be and its effects on each human life. Readers will discover poems exploring everything from the gimmicks of capitalism to the false promises of tranquility. This is another brilliant collection that will only reinforce Suubi as a rising star of her generation. **Tramaine Suubi** is a multilingual writer from Kampala, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of _phases_ and _stages._ She has also published creative writing in over fifteen literary anthologies, journals, magazines, and reviews_._ Tramaine works towards the total liberation of all oppressed people by any means necessary. **Adedayo Agarau’**s debut collection, _The Years of Blood,_ won the Poetic Justice Institute Editor’s Prize for BIPOC Writers (Fordham University Press, Fall 2025). He is a Wallace Stegner Fellow ‘25, a Cave Canem Fellow and a 2024 Ruth Lilly-Rosenberg Fellowship finalist. He is the Editor-in-Chief of _Agbowó Magazine: A Journal of African Literature and Art_ and a Poetry Reviews Editor for _The Rumpus._ He is the author of the chapbooks _Origin of Name_ (African Poetry Book Fund, 2020) and _The Arrival of Rain_ (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2020).