Neil Hilborn, Chessy Normile, Andrew Yim

media release: Button Poetry Presents: Neil Hilborn’s About Time Tour

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Come join Button Poetry at A Room of One’s Own on November 3rd, to celebrate the release of Neil Hilborn’s newest poetry collection About Time. This night of poetry will feature special guest performances by Chessy Normile and Andrew Chi Keong Yim!

Neil Hilborn returns with the poignant and profound collection About Time. Balancing between devastation and perseverance, About Time shares the struggle to maintain mental health during the recent global crises.

With his distinctly conversational tone and dark humor, Hilborn breaks down the cycle of mental illness—small improvements, setbacks, and the process of recovery. This collection fights against itself as the poems try to find a place for hope, love, and goodness in a lonely, terrifying world—ultimately, inspiring belief in and connection to all the small joys that we can find.

Fans new and old will be stunned by Hilborn’s third collection. Continuing in the legacy of his previous works, About Time is hot soup for the troubled soul and absolutely cannot be missed.

About your Features:

Neil Hilborn (he/him) is a best-selling author and, with over 150 million views to his credit, he is the most-watched poet ever. He has performed in 41 states and 8 countries, and in 2019 alone he drove coast to coast five times while on tour. His favorite touring moments are: crying while meeting a wombat in Australia; spending two weeks in Edinburgh at the Fringe Festival; meeting Dionne Warwick at the Smithsonian; and putting 12,000 miles on a minivan in two months with his fellow road goblin Mark. His favorite sandwiches come from: Primanti Bros in Pittsburgh, Black’s BBQ in Austin, one specific Publix in Tampa, and a torta truck he found while stranded in Pasco, Washington. One time on stage he accidentally punched the microphone and broke his wedding ring, and thanks to years of therapy he did not interpret this as a sign. His preferred stage entrance music is “Born to Run” by Bruce Springsteen, during which he walks very slowly. In addition to touring and writing he runs workshops on craft, performance, and how to apologize for ignoring texts. He and his wife live on a hobby farm outside Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where they adopt too many animals.

Chessy Normile (she/her) is the author of Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party (2020 APR/Honickman First Book Prize) and recently a chapbook called Proceedings of the Ordinary Annual General Meeting (After Hours Editions, 2024). She currently lives in Madison, WI and is interested in plants.

Andrew Chi Keong Yim (he/him) was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. He is an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was awarded the 2024 New Voices Award in Poetry from the Washington Square Review, selected by Terrance Hayes. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in AAWW's The Margins, Washington Square Review, and Best New Poets 2024. He has been a middle school English teacher in Boston and New York City, and currently teaches undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and incarcerated writers through the Wisconsin Prison Humanities Project.