What's a re-release book party? It's simply a great excuse to come out to an iconic literary-forward brewery and celebrate two incredible poetry books that have made their way to second editions. Becca Downs' Acid Rain Epithalamium (2024) and Marissa Forbes' Surviving Peter Pan (2023), published by Beyond The Veil Press, will enter the world with new covers, and renewed energy, and you're invited to the reading party. Come prepared for authentic smiles and tears plus an open mic to share your own work - because poets love that sh*t.

Oct. 4 • 3-6pm
Fiction Beer Company
Free and open to all

About the authors:
Becca Downs (she/they) is a Denver-based writer, editor, and educator who earned her MFA from the Mile-High MFA program at Regis University. She’s a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and the author of Acid Rain Epithalamium (Beyond the Veil Press 2024). She’s also co-Editor-in-Chief of Switchback Books poetry press and a managing editor for Treeline Review. You can find her at beccadownswriting.com, her Substack (Invoice Day), and on Instagram at @beccad___.

Marissa Forbes (she/her) is an award-winning author and visual artist. Her poetry books, Surviving Peter Pan (Beyond the Veil Press) and Brief & Bleeding Margins (World Stage Press) were published in 2023. As 2025-2026 Poet Laureate for 40 West Arts District, Marissa curated and edited the first district art & poetry anthology, PROGRESS (not perfection). She was the Managing Editor for Twenty Bellows from 2020-2026, and named the 2026 Colorado Poet for the AM250/CO150 Public Arts Project by the Governor's Office. Other published poems and short fiction stories can be read on marissaforbes.com and you can learn more about her community events at word_nerd_ris on IG.