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.
Refreshments will be available for a suggested donation.