Teresa Spencer will appear next in Ithaca, New York at Odyssey Bookstore on Saturday October 26th at 6:30pm! Join us for an evening of smashing the patriarchy, with readings from TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING: PROSE POEMS TO MY ALMOST LOVES with Teresa and featuring best-selling young adult novelist, Ithaca local author, and Odyssey favorite Bree Barton. This illustrated collection of love poems to catcallers, followers home, online trolls, and other sundry unsavory types is a bitingly funny takedown of the harasser’s gaslight: “I was just paying you a compliment.” So what if it were a compliment? Too Like the Lightning imagines love stories who first sparks are those too-brief missed connections on the street.

We’ll have mad-lib catcaller love poems so you can create your own romantic missive as well as cupcakes for pervs, and Teresa will take your questions, hear your missed connections, and sign your copies of Too Like the Lightning.