I Used to be Epic Spittle
It’s the project of the impossible, then, that makes Yau’s new collection so provocative and provoking, so worth reading, even for a reader’s or poet’s temperament that might be different from...
View ArticleThe New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Comics Poetry Pt. II and...
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights 7-9 p.m. EST in New York...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 6/17–6/23
Sunday 6/18: Sherman Alexie presents his memoir You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me. WORD Jersey City, 5 p.m., free. Monday 6/19: Arundhati Roy presents The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. BAM, 7:30 p.m.,...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 5/26–6/1
Saturday 5/26: Ben Gwin, Rebecca Evanhoe, Rochard Gegick, and Heather Wells Paterson celebrate the release of Clean Time: The True Story of Ronald Reagan Middleton. Unnameable Books, 7 p.m., free....
View ArticleNotable NYC: 8/11–8/17
Saturday 8/11: Ricardo Thomas Manuel Hernandez, Sahfina Ahmed, Clint Margrave, Joanna C. Valente, and Tony Gloeggler celebrate Words Are Magic. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free. Monday 8/13: Dawn...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 7/27–8/3
Sunday 7/28: John Yau presents Two Heads Are Better Than One, A Talk. Wendy’s Subway, 4 p.m., free. Monday 7/29: Willie Perdomo, Jenny Xie, Franny Choi, and host Angel Nafis join the Greenlight Poetry...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 1/11–1/17
Saturday 1/12: Jonathan Tel presents Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao with Roseann Lake. WORD – Brooklyn, 6 p.m., $5. Hannah Bae, Abigail Beshkin, and Erica Schreiner join the Bloom Readers series....
View ArticleCriticism as a Life Practice: A Conversation with Yxta Maya Murray
Yxta Maya Murray’s Art Is Everything is a novel that tests the limits of its own declaration. Its narrator and protagonist, Amanda Ruiz, is a queer, working class Chicanx performance artist in Los...
View ArticleNotable Online: 5/9–5/15
Monday 5/10: Kaitlyn Greenidge, Branson Hobson, Elissa Washuta, and Dani Putney join the Franklin Park Reading Series, hosted by Marae Hart. Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, free. Kristin Hersh presents Seeing...
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