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Each ticket grants entry for (1) individual to An Evening with Rachel McKibbens.**
Event Details:
Friday, April 24, 2026
Wull & Oak
10 E. Broad St.
Hopwell, NJ 08525
7:00 PM: doors open*
7:30 - 9:00 PM: Rachel McKibbens event
*please be aware that our venue closes for the business day at 6PM and will be setting up the space for the event until doors open back up at 7PM.
Echo Thread Projects is excited to welcome Rachel McKibbens, reading from the highly anticipated re-release of her critically acclaimed poetry debut, Pink Elephant. Filled with the difficult realities of her experiences, Rachel’s work and performance delivers a kind of honesty that is both brutal and selfless. Readers and audience alike are left to feel every moment as these poems explore the meanings, and consequences, of family, relationships, and love.
Following Rachel’s reading, there will be a Q&A session, followed by a book signing.
Copies of Pink Elephant will also be available at the event to purchase for signing.
Content warning - themes in the book and conversations surrounding the book may touch upon sensitive themes such as domestic abuse, trauma, and other difficult subjects.
About Rachel McKibbens (Camacho) (from the back cover of Pink Elephant):
Rachel Camacho is a two-time New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow and misfit educator with three acclaimed full-length books of poetry, blud (2017) Into the Dark & Emptying Field (2013) and Pink Elephant (2009, re-released in 2026.)
In 2012, Rachel founded The Pink Door Writing Retreat, an annual intensive held exclusively for non-men writers of color in upstate New York.
Rachel was recently the subject of the podcast We Were Three, from the producers of Serial.
She believes Palestine will be free in her lifetime.
About Pink Elephant (from Button Poetry):
Pink Elephant is a song of survival, gritty and honest, brutal and beautiful. Camacho’s entrancing storytelling and rich language are hypnotic–refusing to let the reader look away. The collection dissects a coming-of-age within an abusive home, the recovery from that trauma, and what building a family looks like in the aftermath.
Echo Thread Projects considers all events a safe space and will not tolerate any instances of discrimination, harassment or abuse in or around any event. Respect and consideration for others are core values to be upheld by all. Discrimination against and/or harassment of any person on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ability, national origin, religion, age, or any other factor is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Echo Thread Projects reserves the right to dismiss participants not abiding by these policies.
**Echo Thread Projects aims to keep poetry and the arts accessible for all, and the cover price helps us to continue organizing programming like this. If the ticket cost is truly prohibitive, please reach out to us via our Contact Form and we will respond as soon as possible.
Each ticket grants entry for (1) individual to An Evening with Rachel McKibbens.**
Event Details:
Friday, April 24, 2026
Wull & Oak
10 E. Broad St.
Hopwell, NJ 08525
7:00 PM: doors open*
7:30 - 9:00 PM: Rachel McKibbens event
*please be aware that our venue closes for the business day at 6PM and will be setting up the space for the event until doors open back up at 7PM.
Echo Thread Projects is excited to welcome Rachel McKibbens, reading from the highly anticipated re-release of her critically acclaimed poetry debut, Pink Elephant. Filled with the difficult realities of her experiences, Rachel’s work and performance delivers a kind of honesty that is both brutal and selfless. Readers and audience alike are left to feel every moment as these poems explore the meanings, and consequences, of family, relationships, and love.
Following Rachel’s reading, there will be a Q&A session, followed by a book signing.
Copies of Pink Elephant will also be available at the event to purchase for signing.
Content warning - themes in the book and conversations surrounding the book may touch upon sensitive themes such as domestic abuse, trauma, and other difficult subjects.
About Rachel McKibbens (Camacho) (from the back cover of Pink Elephant):
Rachel Camacho is a two-time New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow and misfit educator with three acclaimed full-length books of poetry, blud (2017) Into the Dark & Emptying Field (2013) and Pink Elephant (2009, re-released in 2026.)
In 2012, Rachel founded The Pink Door Writing Retreat, an annual intensive held exclusively for non-men writers of color in upstate New York.
Rachel was recently the subject of the podcast We Were Three, from the producers of Serial.
She believes Palestine will be free in her lifetime.
About Pink Elephant (from Button Poetry):
Pink Elephant is a song of survival, gritty and honest, brutal and beautiful. Camacho’s entrancing storytelling and rich language are hypnotic–refusing to let the reader look away. The collection dissects a coming-of-age within an abusive home, the recovery from that trauma, and what building a family looks like in the aftermath.
Echo Thread Projects considers all events a safe space and will not tolerate any instances of discrimination, harassment or abuse in or around any event. Respect and consideration for others are core values to be upheld by all. Discrimination against and/or harassment of any person on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ability, national origin, religion, age, or any other factor is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Echo Thread Projects reserves the right to dismiss participants not abiding by these policies.
**Echo Thread Projects aims to keep poetry and the arts accessible for all, and the cover price helps us to continue organizing programming like this. If the ticket cost is truly prohibitive, please reach out to us via our Contact Form and we will respond as soon as possible.