- Will be featured in podcasts with Tony Trigilio and also with the Poetry Foundation.
- Words without Borders interview & feature on "The City and the Writer" curated by Nathalie Handal.

-Confirmed author events in: September 19: Millersville University, PA September 23: The Common Sense Reading Series, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO September 24: The Spare Room Reading Series, Passages Bookshop, Portland, OR September 26: Open Books, Seattle, WA September 28: Woodland Pattern Bookstore, Milwaukee, WI September 30: Chase Public, Cincinnati, OH October 3: Carthage College, Kenosha, WI October 4: Six Points Reading Series, Poetry Center of Chicago October 5/6: Sector 2337, Chicago, IL

It could be in Chernobyl, in Chicago, or in the future; it could be “the Brooklyn Vampire” Albert Fish penning a letter to a grieving mother or “the Yorkshire Ripper” Peter Sutcliffe being described by his paranoid schizophrenic wife; it could be the birth of a child turned literally inside out in a world “more wolf than lion, more hyena than either”; and it could be you, dear reader, “not a person, but a doubt contemptuous of stone and silence and time itself.”

In The Circus of Trust, Mark Tardi implicates us all in a pastoral of detritus where “the same indifferent sun” unflinchingly tracks devastation as part of the most routine actions. Whether the violence is architectural, biological, geological, or technological, we’re warned that atrocity is the most resilient form of human currency: “You don’t have to step on a body to carry death on your shoes.”