Two poets will be the featured readers for Lit Youngstown’s next First Wednesday Reader Series event.

Sean Thomas Dougherty is an Erie, Pa., poet whose books include “Death Prefers the Minor Keys” from BOA Editions, and “The Dead are Everywhere Telling Us Things,” winner of the 2021 Jacar Books Prize. His book “The Second O of Sorrow” won the Housatonic Book Award and was cowinner of the Paterson Poetry Prize.

Ben Gulyas lives in South Euclid and tries to translate his poetry into something useful like seeds, birds and moon atlases. Sometimes it happens — birds inside moons, poems inside birds with the poet somewhere in between.

The reading starts at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Westside Bowl, 2617 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown, in its Trophy Room, which only is accessible by stairs.

Erin Stubbs will co-host with an open mic following the readings. Megan Albani will provide ASL interpretation

Admission is free, and the April reading is sponsored by Maryann Capanna in memory of her son, Nicholas Rocco Capanna.