From the rats who will likely outlast us, brilliantly evoked in Samiya Bashir's poem, to rabbits bred for sport or worse, as described in Tess Gunty's dark short story.

Join Bashir and Gunty for a reading from their pieces and discussion around the ethics, psychology and power of animals in our lives.

"Something eerie ties us to animals," Barry Lopez wrote in Arctic Dreams, "sometimes the animal pulls you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood."

Celebrate the new release with Samiya Bashir & Tess Gunt @ McNally Jackson Seaport :: 10/12 @ 7pm!

What does it feel like to live in this shared space with animals, to worry about it, to love it, to mourn its destruction.

The latest issue of Freeman's literary annual is dedicated to asking these and other questions, to evoking the rich and often mysterious shared topography of space we occupy with animals.