Join us for an evening of poetry from Ilya Kaminsky, Katie Farris, Danielle Chapman, and Jesse Nathan to celebrate the publication of The occasion for the reading is to celebrate the publication of Jesse Nathan's Eggtooth and Danielle Chapman's Holler, each of them about fifteen years in the making.

Jesse Nathan’s poetry has appeared in the New York Review of Books, the Paris Review, the American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, BOMB, The Nation, The Believer, Zyzzyva, and the inaugural issue of Revel, among other magazines. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Stanford University, the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley, Bread Loaf, the Community of Writers, the Ashbery Home School, and the Kansas Arts Commission. He's a 2024 LABA Bay Area Fellow. His first book of poems, Eggtooth, was published by Unbound Edition Press in 2023. It was Peter Campion’s first acquisition for the press, and the collection includes a foreword by Robert Hass. Nathan was a founding editor of the McSweeney's Poetry Series. He contributes occasional prose to the the New York Times. With Ilya Kaminsky and Dominic Luxford, he edited In the Shape of a Human Body I Am Visiting on Earth: Poems from Far and Wide. Nathan’s reviews and interviews appear in the online McSweeney's series “Short Conversations with Poets.” He teaches in the English Department at UC Berkeley.

Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1977, and arrived to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. He is the author of Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press) and Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press) and co-editor and co-translated many other books, including Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (Harper Collins), In the Hour of War: Poems from Ukraine (Arrowsmith), and Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (Alice James Books). His work was the finalist for The National Book Award and won The Los Angeles Times Book Award, The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The National Jewish Book Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, The Whiting Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, Lannan Fellowship, Academy of American Poets’ Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize, and was also shortlisted for National Book Critics Circle Award, Neustadt International Literature Prize, and T.S. Eliot Prize (UK). Deaf Republic was The New York Times’ Notable Book, and was also named Best Book of the Year by dozens of other publications, including Washington Post, Times Literary Supplement, The Telegraph, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Irish Times, Vanity Fair, Lithub, Library Journal, and New Statesman. He collaborates frequently with painters, sculptors, musicians, choreographers, and theater artists. Odesa, Kaminsky’s recent collaboration with the photographer Yelena Yamchuk, published by Gost Books, was listed by Time Magazine among The 20 Best Photo Books of 2022. His poems have been translated into over twenty languages, and his books are published in many countries, including Turkey, Netherlands, Latvia, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Mexico, Macedonia, Romania, Spain, Iceland, India, Slovenia, France (where Kaminsky received Prix Alain Bosquet given annually by Gallimard), Italy (where his work was honored by the Bonanni Prize in L’Aquila), Germany (where his poetry was listed by the SWR television channel as German literary critics’ top pick) and China (where he was awarded the Yinchuan International Poetry Prize). In 2019, Kaminsky was selected by BBC as “one of the 12 artists that changed the world.” Ilya Kaminsky has worked as a law clerk for San Francisco Legal Aid and the National Immigration Law Center. More recently, he worked pro-bono as the Court Appointed Special Advocate for Orphaned Children in Southern California. He currently teaches in Princeton and lives in New Jersey.

Danielle Chapman is a poet, nonfiction writer, and lecturer in English at Yale University. Her memoir, Holler: A Poet Among Patriots (2023) and her second book of poems, Boxed Juice (forthcoming, 2024) are published by Unbound Edition Press. Her debut poetry collection, Delinquent Palaces, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2015. Chapman's poems have appeared widely, including in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, and Poetry. Two chapters from Holler appeared originally in The Oxford American, and the opening essay will be part of the debut issue of Revel, a literary journal edited by Atsuro Riley and launching in Fall 2023. Chapman has written poetry criticism for The Yale Review, The Threepenny Review, The Financial Times and The New York Times Book Review. Danielle was an editor at Poetry beginning in 2003, as well as a consulting editor to The Poetry Foundation. From 2007 through 2013 she served as the Director of Literary Arts and Events for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, where she created programs to serve Chicago’s writers, publishers, and literary community. Since 2013, Danielle has taught in the English Department at Yale. She currently teaches Shakespeare and the Craft of Writing Poetry, a hybrid literature/ creative writing course that pairs poetry from Shakespeare's plays with contemporary poems. Danielle lives in Hamden, CT, with her husband, Christian Wiman; their twin daughters, Eliza and Fiona; and their rescue dachshund, Rosie.

Katie Farris is the author of the memoir-in-poems, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive from Alice James Books (US) and Liverpool University Press (UK), which was listed as a Publisher’s Weekly’s Top 10 Poetry Books for 2023. She is also the author of the hybrid-form text boysgirls, (Marick Press, 2011; Tupelo Press 2019), and the chapbooks A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving, winner of the 2021 Chad Walsh Poetry Award, Thirteen Intimacies (Fivehundred Places, 2017), and Mother Superior in Hell (Dancing Girl, 2019). Most recently she is winner of the Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, and Poetry, and has been commissioned by MoMA. She is the co-translator of several books of poetry from the Ukrainian, French, Chinese, and Russian, most recently, The Country Where Everyone's Name is Fear, Translations of Lydmila and Boris Khersonsky. She graduated with an MFA from Brown University, and is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Poetry at Princeton University.

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Please join Black Sun Lit for the launch and live reading of Michel Surya’s Dead End, with translator Kit Schluter, Katie Ebbitt, Katy Mongeau, V Manuscript, Maralie Armstrong-Rial & Mitch Anzuoni.

KIT SCHLUTER is the author of Pierrot’s Fingernails (Canarium Books, 2020) and the forthcoming Cartoons (City Lights, 2024). His recent and forthcoming translations from the French and Spanish include Dead End by Michel Surya (Black Sun Lit, 2023) and books by bruno darío, Copi, Anne Kawala, Mario Levrero, Marie de Quatrebarbes, Marcel Schwob, and Olivia Tapiero. He lives in Mexico City.

KATIE EBBITT is the author of Another Life (Counterpath Press, 2016) and Para Ana (Inpatient Press, 2019). Her forthcoming full-length collection, FECUND, will be published by Keith LLC in 2024, along with the chapbooks AIR SIGN (The Creative Writing Department) and Hysterical Pregnancy (above/ground press). She lives in Manhattan with her one-eyed cat, Balor.

KATY MONGEAU is a writer from Jacksonville, FL. She holds an MFA from Brown University and currently resides in New York. Her work has appeared in Fanzine, Threadcount, PLINTH, digital vestiges, Dark Fucking Wizard, and SELFFUCK. Her debut book of poems, Apostasy, was published by Black Sun Lit in 2020.

V MANUSCRIPT is a poet and scriptomancer living in New York City. Their first full-length poem/grimoire, Salamander’s Wool, is out now with Inpatient Press. Manuscript also performs collaboratively as Humanbeast with artist and partner Maralie.

MARALIE ARMSTRONG-RIAL is a Brooklyn-based artist, vocalist, producer, and educator whose work finds heritage in spiritual and sensual expressions via electronic media. Maralie performs collaboratively as half of Humanbeast with artist and partner Eli V Manuscript and solo as VALISE. Enriching her/their practice as an exhibiting artist, Maralie currently teaches as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Department of Modern Culture and Media.

MITCH ANZUONI is the founding editor and executive janitor of Inpatient Press and its translation imprint, Mercurial Editions.

Thoreau said we should all follow the errant thought, the wild thought, the mallard thought -- here's a series devoted to writers on the track of mallard thoughts, and to sharing new work and works-in-progress. Hosted by Jessie Kindig.

Featuring:

Jennifer Krasinski is a writer and cultural critic who frequently contributes to 4Columns, Artforum, Bookforum, and other publications. Her essays have been published in numerous books and catalogs including Reza Abdoh, Jill Johnston: The Disintegration of a Critic, and Hilton Als's Andy Warhol: The Series. She has taught at Art Center College of Design, the School of Visual Arts, New York University, Yale University, and elsewhere.

Elias Rodriques is an Assistant Editor at n+1 and his first novel, All the Water I’ve Seen is Running, is out now. 

May Jeong is a writer for Vanity Fair. She is the winner of the 2022 Ida B.Wells Award administered by the Newswomen's Club of New York. Her upcoming book on sex work was awarded a 2022 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in- Progress Award and a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. 

Aaron Carico edits and writes, and he’s also training in psychoanalysis. His book Black Market explores the history of slavery in US national culture. He’s probably wondering what it takes or figuring out for himself. 

Join us in celebrating the release of Dorothea Lasky’s highly anticipated new book of poetry, The Shining, with Michael Dumanis.

As labyrinthine as its namesake, Dorothea Lasky’s The Shining is an ekphrastic horror lyric that shapes an entirely unique feminist psychological landscape. Here, Lasky guides us through the familiar rooms of the Overlook Hotel, both realized and imagined, inhabiting characters and spaces that have been somewhat flattened in Stephen King’s novel or Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation. Ultimately, Lasky’s poems point us to the ways in which language is always haunted—by past selves, poetic ancestors, and paradoxical histories. 

Dorothea Lasky is the author of six full-length collections of poetry and one book of prose, including Milk, ROME, and Animal. She is also the editor of Essays. Her latest poetry book, The Shining, is forthcoming from Wave Books. Her Twitter and Instagram are @dorothealasky. She lives in New York City.

Michael Dumanis was born in Moscow to Jewish parents of mixed Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian descent, and immigrated to the United States at the age of five. His second book of poems, Creature, is published by Four Way Books, 2023. His first, My Soviet Union, won the Juniper Prize for Poetry. He is also coeditor, with poet Cate Marvin, of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. With Kevin Prufer, he coedited the volume Russell Atkins: On the Life & Work of an American Master. He lives in North Bennington, Vermont, and is a member of the Literature Faculty at Bennington College, where he runs the Poetry at Bennington reading series and serves as Editor of Bennington Review.

Join us for a warm evening out in the garden to celebrate Bard, Kinetic with readings and conversation featuring Anne Waldman, Zoe Brezsny, Lucia Hinojosa Gaxiola, and music by Safira Berrada-Riggs.

Anne Waldman—poet, curator, professor, performer, and cultural activist—co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics program at Naropa University. She is the author of over 60 volumes of poetry, poetics and anthologies including The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in The Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press) which won the Pen Center Literary Prize. Penguin has published her books over many years, including Trickster Feminism, among five others. Her album SCIAMACHYwas released in 2020 by Fast Speaking Music and the Levy-Gorvy Gallery and has been described by Patti Smith as “exquisitely potent, a psychic shield for our times.” Waldman was the keynote speaker for the Bob Dylan and the Beats Conference in Tulsa in the Spring of 2022, and she wrote the libretto for the critically acclaimed opera/movie Black Lodge with music by composer David T. Little that premiered at Opera Philadelphia in October of 2022. Publishers Weekly has called Anne Waldman a “counter-cultural giant.” Waldman is most recently the author of Bard, Kinetic (Coffee House Press, 2023) and co-editor with Emma Gomis of New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive (Nightboat, 2022).

Zoe Brezsny is a poet from the Bay Area based in New York. You can listen to the archives of her WFMU 91.1FM radio program at wfmu.org/playlists/ZO, featuring music and spoken word. Brezsny co-runs Gern en Regalia with Mario Miron. She is the author of Earthworks (Land and Sea Press) and Ecstasy (Topos Press), an audio cassette of spoken word with poet Ben Fama. She is working on a book called The Source Unlimited.

Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola is an artist, poet, and editor whose work explores the materiality of language, memory, sound ecology, perceptions and boundaries of place, elements of chance and archive. She exhibits and performs in multiple media, leads workshops and co-edits diSONARE, an experimental editorial project from Mexico City, where she is currently based. The Telaraña Circuit(Tender Buttons Press) is her first full-length book.

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Join us in celebrating the launch of an exciting new magazine, EXCERPT.

Featuring readings from Ayla Zuraw-Friedland, Matthew Binder, Garth Miro, Simona Blat, and Matilda Lin Berke.

Join us in celebrating National Poetry Month with readings from Sarah Bridgins, Wren Hanks, Anjali Khosla, Zefyr Lisowski, & Anthony Thomas Lombardi.

Sarah Bridgins is the author of the Sexton Poetry Prize winning collection DEATH AND EXES (Eyewear Books, 2022). Her work has appeared in Tin House, BuzzFeed, Bustle, and Joyland among other publications. She is the co-founder of the Ditmas Lit reading series in Brooklyn.

Wren Hanks is the author of Lily-livered (Driftwood Press, 2021), winner of the Adrift Chapbook Contest, and The Rise of Genderqueer (Brain Mill Press, 2018). A 2016 Lambda Emerging Writers Fellow, his recent work appears or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Third Coast, DIAGRAM, and The Journal. He is a poetry editor for smoke and mold, a journal invested in the intersections of trans writing and climate change. He lives in Brooklyn, loves velvet, and works in animal rights. 

Anjali Khosla is an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Design at The New School. Her poetry chapbook, Ghostbot, was published by Wendy’s Subway and Norby Press in 2019. She was the recipient of the 2020 New York Press Club prize for travel writing, the 2021 South Asian Journalists Association award for essay and opinion writing, the 2021 Nadya Aisenberg fellowship at MacDowell, and a 2022 writing residency at 33 Officina Creativa in Toffia, Italy.

Zefyr Lisowski is a poetry co-editor at the Whiting Award winning Apogee Journal, the author of the Lizzie Borden queer murder chapbook Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press), and the winner of the 2022 Noemi Book Prize for her full-length collection, Girl Work (forthcoming 2024). Her poems and essays have appeared in Catapult, The Offing, and elsewhere. She has received support from Blue Mountain Center, Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, and more. She grew up in the Great Dismal Swamp, NC, and lives at zeflisowski.com.

Anthony Thomas Lombardi is a Best of the Net- and Pushcart-nominated poet, editor, organizer,
and educator. He is the founder and director of Word is Bond, a community-centered reading series partnered with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop that raises funds for transnational relief efforts, bail funds, and mutual aid organizations, and currently serves as a poetry editor for Sundog Lit. He has taught at Borough of Manhattan Community College, Paris College of Art, Brooklyn Poets, Polyphony Lit’s Summer Editorial Apprenticeship Program, and community programming throughout New York City. A recipient of the Poetry Project’s Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship, his work has appeared or will soon in the Poetry Foundation’s Ours Poetica, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, North American Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their two cats.

Join us for a reading & discussion of Julie Carr’s most recent book, Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West.

Julie Carr’s most recent books are Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West, Real Life: An Installation, Objects from a Borrowed Confession and the essay collection, Someone Shot My Book. She lives in Denver where she helps to run Counterpath and teaches at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Mónica de la Torre is the author, most recently, of Repetition Nineteen, a book of poems and prose (Nightboat, 2020). Her other poetry books include The Happy End/All Welcome (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017) Public Domain (Roof Books, 2009) and Talk Shows (Switchback Books, 2006). She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Brooklyn College.

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Join us to celebrate Kyle Seamus Brosnihan’s new book of poetry, Tisoy, from Bottlecap Press. Featuring readings from Kelsea Brunner, Bernadette Johnson, Parker Menzimer, & Melina Casados.

Kyle Seamus Brosnihan is a Filipino-American poet and playwright. Raised in Nebraska, he now lives in Brooklyn. He received his MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College in 2022. His poetry has been published in The Margins, Electric Literature, The Brooklyn Rail, Apogee, Beautiful Days Press, and elsewhere.

Hosted by Jessie Kindig, and featuring:

Barbara Browning is the author of three novels (The Correspondence Artist, I'm Trying to Reach You, and The Gift), as well as several academic books (most recently, The Miniaturists). She also makes small dances, ukulele covers, and other handcrafted objects of questionable use value. 

Hannah Lillith Assadi, a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree, is the author of Sonora, which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and The Stars Are Not Yet Bells, a New Yorker and NPR best book of 2022.

Marco Roth—co-founder of n+1 and author of The Scientists: A Family Romance (FSG, 2012)—is critic at large for Tablet Magazine.

Natalie Adler is an editor at Lux Magazine and an Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction.

Join us for an evening of new book celebration with author Courtney Sender in conversation with Menachem Kaiser.

Courtney Sender's writing has appeared in The New York Times’ Modern Love, The Atlantic, Ploughshares (Spring '23), Slice, and many others. A Yaddo and MacDowell fellow, Courtney is also staff writer for the #1-charting iHeart podcast Noble Blood. Her debut book, In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me, was called "compelling" by Kirkus, "a stunner" in The Millions, "literary rock 'n' roll" by Aimee Bender, and "fierce" by Alice McDermott. She holds an MFA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and an MTS from Harvard Divinity School. www.courtneysender.com

Menachem Kaiser is a writer currently living in Brooklyn, NY. He grew up in Toronto, Canada, has a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from University of Michigan, and was a Fulbright Fellow to Lithuania. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, New York, BOMB, Vogue, and elsewhere.

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Join us for the release of the long-awaited new issue of the Brazenhead Review, a magazine of new “anonymous” writing. Readings by Julian Santiago Munoz, Elizabeth Hamilton, Gnaomi Siemens, Loisa Fenichell & a performance of Drury’s short story short story by Jess Magee and Jonah O’Hara-David.

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Another installment of the very funny very hilarious very much needed antidote for our times - people reading funny things. Anything from character sketches, to poems, short stories, readings from funny books, readings from emails, tweets, etc. Whatever makes you laugh.

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Join us for another installment of the reading series NO SEASON hosted by Ari Braverman. This month featuring Kay Gabriel, Sasha Fletcher, Rachelle Rahmé, & Harris Lahti.

Kay Gabriel is an essayist and poet. Gabriel is the author of two books of collected poetry, A Queen in Bucks County and Kissing Other People or the House of Fame.

Sasha Fletcher is the author of the novel Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World, a book of poems, several chapbooks of poetry, and a novella.

Rachelle Rahmé is a Lebanese-American poet and scholar born in Jounieh, Lebanon. She is the author of Count Thereof Upon the Other’s Limbs (72 Press, 2019), Puce Commodity (earthbound editions, 2020), Bataille’s Eggs (blush, 2020), and Georges Bataille: 27 Poems on Death (o•blēk editions, 2021). Her poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, 3fold, the tiny, Fieldnotes and Fonograf, among others. Her work in sound has been presented by Issue Project Room, PS1, The Stone, Microscope Gallery, Bortolami Gallery, and others. She is a co-editor at blush and was a 2021-2022 ESB Fellow at the Poetry Project. Rahmé holds a Masters in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research and is interested in negative dialectics, comparative archivism, and literary resistance movements. She splits her time between New York City and Providence, RI, where she is an MFA candidate in Literary Arts at Brown University.

Harris Lahti‘s fiction is forthcoming or has appeared in Blue Arrangements, Bomb, New York Tyrant, Hobart, Epiphany, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. He edits for Fence and Post Road, and paints houses in New York’s Hudson Valley. Recently, he completed his first novel, The Foreclosure Gothics.

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Join us for another installment of the Rogue Loon Reading Series hosted by Jessie Kindig. Featuring readings from Jordan Kisner, Audrea Lim, Sophia Giovannitti, & Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan.

Jordan Kisner is the author of the essay collection Thin Places, which was named one of NPR's best books of 2020. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic, and the creator of the podcast Thresholds with Lithub. 

Audrea Lim is freelance journalist who has written about climate, the environment, racial justice and social movements for the New York Times, Harper's, Guardian and The Nation, and is working on a book about the commodification of land in America. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and a 2022 Macdowell Fellow.

Sophia Giovannitti is a writer and artist in New York City, and her first book, Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex, is forthcoming next spring from Verso. Her videos and performance-based studies have been shown at Recess, the Athens Biennale, Duplex, and PPOW, among others.

Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan  is an activist, writer, and scholar and founder of the Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative where she directs,  Beyond Identity: A Gendered Platform for Scholar-Activists at the City College of New York, the Publisher of Adi Magazine, and the creator of the Female Fighter Series at Guernica Magazine. Her book, Radicalizing Her, examines the politics of the female fighter. Her political essays which have appeared in Harper's, Freeman's Journal, McSweeney's Quarterly, Guernica Magazine, and Foreign Affairs among others have been described as "searing in a search for answers" (Publisher's Weekly).

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Join us to celebrate the new issue of Circumference with readings by Mayada Ibrahim, Eunice Lee, Ostap Kin, John Hennessy, & more.

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Join us to celebrate the launch of LYDIA MARIA CHILD: A RADICAL AMERICAN LIFE with author Lydia Moland in conversation with Regan Penaluna (How to Think Like a Woman) and Skye Cleary (How to be Authentic).

Join us for an evening celebrating the launch of a new issue of Epiphany Magazine, The Illusions Issue featuring readings by A.J. Bermudez, Elias Diakolios, Ed Helfers, Iva Moore, Alana Saab, & Holly Messitt.

A.J. Bermudez is the author of Stories No One Hopes Are About Them, winner of the 2022 Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her work can be found in Creative Nonfiction, Boulevard, Story, Chicago Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.

Elias Diakolios holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University where he taught undergraduate creative writing and served as Poetry Editor for Colum- bia Journal 59. His work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Bookends Review, Juked, Gavialidae, Circle Show, and Rainy Day Magazine. He also makes linocuts and studies entomology.

Edward Helfers writes short fiction, music, and essays. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Sonora Review, DIAGRAM, Michigan Quarterly Review: Mix- tape, The Rupture, Puerto Del Sol, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. His stories have been featured in the Best of The Net out of Sundress Press and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Born in Missouri, he currently teaches critical and creative writ- ing for the Literature Department at American University in Washington, D.C.

Iva Moore is a poet from Waverly, Kentucky. Her writing has been featured in Juked, Hobart, The Quarterless Review, and elsewhere. Her forthcoming chapbook Women Collapse Into / Better, Brighter Artists was selected by Sawako Nakayasu as the winner of the Oversound Chapbook Prize.

Alana Saab is an experimental literary writer and award-winning screenwriter. Her work explores themes of mental health, trauma, queerness and the tran- scendent through a metamodern approach. Her debut novel, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me, is represented by Mina Hamedi at Janklow & Nesbit. Alana’s work appears in various journals and magazines, such as Pank Magazine and the Minetta Review. Her screenplays have been recognized by over ten film festivals, including WorldFest Houston, Beverly Hills Film Festival, and Garden State Film Festival. She has an MFA in Fiction Writing from The New School, an MA in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University, and a BA in the Phenomenology of Story- telling from NYU. She is the co-founder of a multimedia production company, Enlivenment, where she works as a story consultant for other creators. She is also a long-standing teaching artist at the non-profit, “Here, There and Everywhere,” facilitating writing workshops to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and human-trafficking, as well as a PEN America Prison Writing Mentor. Most days, Alana can be found in Madison Square Park with her partner or writing at her desk supervised by her four cats.

Holly Messitt is Brooklyn-based and an associate professor at BMCC/CUNY. In addition to writing poetry, she is editing a selected works for poet Hilda Morley.

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Another installment of our monthly reading series featuring people reading funny things!

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Join us for a reading featuring Anna Moschovakis (Participation), Emmalea Russo (Confetti), and Jared Daniel Fagen (The Animal of Existence).

Anna Moschovakis works with poetry and prose as a writer, editor, translator, publisher, teacher, and designer. Her books include the novels Participation and Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love, and poetry books They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This and You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her long poem in process, Preliminary Notes on Risk, was excerpted in a chaplet from Belladonna* and in folder magazine online. Her most recent translation is of David Diop’s novel At Night All Blood Is Black (Frère d’âme), for which she and Diop received the 2021 International Booker Prize. Other translations include Albert Cossery’s The Jokers, Annie Ernaux’s The Possession, Bresson on Bresson, and Mihret Kebede’s #evolutionarypoems, a collaborative project forthcoming from Circumference Books. She is a student of plants and herbalism, a member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and a co-founder of Bushel Collective, an experimental mixed-use storefront space in Delhi, NY, near where she lives. Released in the US and Canada on Nov 8, 2022, Participation is a precarious novel about love & comradeship, the discomforts of desire, forms and functions of labor, and the embodied experience of reading and being read.

Emmalea Russo’s work combines poetry, prose, and visual elements, often focusing on mysticism, film, philosophy, and media. Her books of poetry/essay are G (2018), Wave Archive (2019), and Confetti (2022). Recent work has appeared in Artforum, American Chordata, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Compact, Granta, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review of Books, and SF MOMA’s Open Space. She has been a writer in residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York and 18th Street Arts Center in Los Angeles and has taught workshops at various institutions including Saint Peters University, Northeastern University, Melbourne School for Continental Philosophy, GCAS, and The Home School. She lives at the Jersey shore and co-edits the multidisciplinary journal Asphalte Magazine. She’s also a bookseller at Endless Used Books. Currently, she is at work on a series of books on cinema, mysticism, and spectatorship. The first, Confetti, is available here.

Jared Daniel Fagen is the author of The Animal of Existence (Black Square Editions, forthcoming October 15, 2022). His prose poems, essays, and conversations have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Lana Turner, and Asymptote, among other publications. He is the editor and publisher of Black Sun Lit, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, and an adjunct lecturer at the City College of New York. Born in Jeollanam-do, South Korea, he lives in Brooklyn and the western Catskills.

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Join us for a reading from Reina María Rodríguez, one of the most representative poets of contemporary Cuban literature, in celebration of becoming recipient of the 2022 La Avellaneda Medal, the highest recognition in letters conferred by the Cuban Cultural Center of New York.

Born in Havana in 1952, less than a decade before the Cuban revolution, she has been recognized in Cuba not only as a major poet but as an advocate for alternative (non-state) cultural spaces. She used her rooftop home, informally known as la azotea de Reina, as an intellectual salon that became an important literary hub in Havana for three decades.

Among Rodríguez’ publications are La gente de mi barrio (1978); Cuando una mujer no duerme (UNEAC, 1980); Para un cordero blanco (Casa de las Américas, 1984); En la arena de Padua (Ediciones Unión, 1992); Páramos (Ediciones Unión, 1993); La foto del invernadero (Casa de las Américas, 1998); and the anthology Ellas escriben cartas de amor. Reina María Rodríguez has won two Casa de las Américas Prizes (1984, 1998), three National Critics’ Awards (1992, 1995, 1999), two Julián de Casal Prizes (1980, 1983), the National Literature Prize, Cuba’s top literary prize (2013), and the Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Award for Poetry (2014).

English translations of her work include Violet Island and Other Poems, tr. Kristin Dykstra and Nancy Gates Madsen (Green Integer., 2004), La detencion del tiempo / Time’s Arrest , tr. Dykstra (Factory School, 2005), and Other Letters to Milena / Otras cartas a Milena, tr. Dykstra (University of Alabama Press, 2014).

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Join us for another installment of the Rogue Loon Reading Series with readings from Darcey Steinke, Wei Tchou, Kyle McCarthy, & J.T. Price.

Darcey Steinke's most recent book is Flash Count Diary. She is working on a book about the body, pain, and faith.

Wei Tchou is an essayist in New York who writes about nature, culture, and food.

Kyle McCarthy is the author of the novel Everyone Knows How Much I Love You. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, American Short Fiction, and the Harvard Review, and she most recently wrote about ballet and feminism for Lux Magazine.

J.T. Price has lived in Brooklyn since 2001. His fiction has appeared in The New England Review, Post Road, Guernica, Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere.

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Join us for a joint reading from Nicholas Goodly and Michael Chang in celebrating the publication of Black Swim.

Nicholas Goodly is the author of Black Swim (Copper Canyon, 2022). They are a team member of the performing arts platform Fly on a Wall and assistant poetry editor for The Southeast Review. Nicholas was a finalist for the 2020 Jake Adam York Prize, runner-up for the 2019 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and recipient of the 2017 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, among other awards. Their work has appeared in The New Yorker, Boston Review, BOMB, The Poetry Project, Lambda Literary, Narrative Magazine,  and elsewhere.

Michael Chang (they/them) is the author of several collections of poetry, including BOYFRIEND PERSPECTIVE (Really Serious Literature, 2021), ALMANAC OF USELESS TALENTS (CLASH Books, 2022), & SYNTHETIC JUNGLE (Northwestern University Press, 2023). Tapped to edit Lambda Literary's Emerge anthology, their poems have been nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net, & the Pushcart Prize. They were awarded the Poetry Project's prestigious Brannan Prize in 2021, & serve as a poetry editor at the acclaimed journal Fence.

Burning Palace presents a night of poesy and video featuring Billy Pedlow, Maurane, Moises, Carlos L. Jimenez Jr., Wes Civilz, and Kelsea Brunner.

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Join us for Lactose Intolerant, a POC reading series hosted by Ruth Minah Buchwald featuring readings by Hannah Bae, Elaine Hsieh Chou, Sabrina Imbler, Yasmin Adele Majeed, Kari Sonde, and Tariq Thompson.

Hannah Bae is a freelance journalist and nonfiction writer who is at work on a memoir about family estrangement and mental illness. She is the 2020 nonfiction winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She was a 2021 Peter Taylor Fellow for The Kenyon Review Writers Workshops and a 2019 Open City fellow in narrative nonfiction at Asian American Writers’ Workshop. She has been hired to teach creative writing for Indiana University’s Writers Conference, Kundiman, Kweli International Literary Festival and The Resort LIC. She has received residencies from the Ragdale Foundation, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow and The Peter Bullough Foundation. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in books including “Our Red Book: Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing & Changing” (Simon & Schuster, 2022), “(Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation About Mental Health” (Algonquin Young Readers, 2018) and “The Monocle Travel Guide, Seoul” (food and drinks chapter co-editor/writer, 2018). She is focused on stories about Korean American culture and identity, and in 2019, several of her essays received nominations for The Pushcart Prize.

Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Taiwanese American writer from California. A 2017 NYU Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow and 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow, her short fiction appears in Black Warrior Review, Guernica, Tin House Online, and Ploughshares. Disorientation is her first novel.

Sabrina Imbler is a half-Chinese writer and dyke based in Brooklyn. She is a staff writer for Atlas Obscura and the recipient of fellowships from Jack Jones Literary Arts, the Asian American Writer's Workshop, and Paragraph NY.

Yasmin Adele Majeed is a writer and MFA candidate in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has received fellowships from Kundiman, Kweli, and the Periplus Collective, and is a winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize. Her fiction appears in the Asian American Literary Review and Best Debut Short Stories 2022.

Kari Sonde is an assistant audience editor at TIME Magazine and is based in Washington, D.C. Kari writes about food, culture, the environment, the internet and more. She's written for The Washington Post, Mother Jones, Bitch Media, New York Magazine, and more. She's also worked with Slow Food USA and the Asian American Writers Workshop.

Tariq Thompson is a Black poet from Memphis, Tennessee. He studies English and history at Kenyon College while working as an Associate and Intern for The Kenyon Review. In his free time, Tariq will most likely be found reading, writing, humming and playing Pokémon.

Okay, so people reading funny things is back, but SPOOKY EDITION!

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Join publisher Whiskey Tit for a reading by Samuel Kaye from his book, Cinema, followed by a chat with David Leo Rice.

Samuel Kaye was born in Adelaide and grew up in Melbourne, London and Sydney. He now lives in Newtown, an inner western suburb of Australia’s largest city. Kaye’s first novella, The Circus, was published in 2014 by Inken Publisch. His short stories Jindabyne Holiday and The Turkish-German Girl have appeared in Sneaky Magazine. He has an Arts degree in English literature and languages from the University of Sydney, and a Communications degree in creative writing and philosophy from the University of Technology.

David Leo Rice is the author of the novels A Room in Dodge City, A Room in Dodge City: Vol. 2, Angel House, and The New House, as well as the story collection Drifter and editor of the nonfiction book Children of the New Flesh. He lives in NYC and is online at www.raviddice.com.

Join us for NO SEASON #2, a cross-genre reading series hosted by Ari Braverman.

Featuring readings by Mirene Arsanios, Chariot Wish, Eugene Lim, Robert Lopez, & Magada Ibrahim.

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