Lit Youngstown will host two readings, one in person and one livestreamed, next week.

Jeremy Proehl and Jean Reinhold will be featured at Lit Youngstown’s First Wednesday Reader Series 7 p.m. at Westside Bowl, 2617 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown.

Proehl’s poems have appeared in Kent State’s Edith Chase Symposium, Hessler Street Fair and #ThisIsCle poetry anthologies. He has been published in Headline Poetry & Press, Ink Sweat & Tears, Poetry Pea, Muleskinner Journal, The Westchester Review, Panoply and The Grindstone.

Reinhold is a recently retired elementary school teacher having worked 35 years at Fernway School in Shaker Heights. She writes and does various forms of art for fun.

Admission is free.

At 7 p.m. Nov. 2, Lit Youngstown will present a virtual reading on its YouTube channel. Poets Joshua Gottlieb Miller and Rosanna Young Oh will be featured to celebrate new poetry collections about labor, “The Art of Bagging” (Conduit, 2023) and “The Corrected Version” (Diode, 2023). Allison Pitinii Davis will join them to share new poems about gender and deindustrialization.

Lit Youngstown is a literary arts nonprofit with programs for writers, readers and those who love a good story. For more information, go to

lityoungstown.org.