Saturday, September 23rd at 7pm
at
Brickbat Books:
The Hugely Popular Poetry Series:
Joanna C. Valente, Chris McCreary, Matthew Landis
Joanna
C. Valente is
a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. They are the author of Sirs
& Madams (Aldrich
Press, 2014), The
Gods Are Dead (Deadly
Chaps Press, 2015), Sexting
the Dead (Unknown
Press, 2017) &
Xenos
(Agape
Editions, 2016), and is the editor of A
Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault
(CCM, 2017). They
received their MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Joanna is
the founder of Yes, Poetry and the managing editor for Civil Coping
Mechanisms and Luna Luna Magazine. Some of their writing has
appeared, or is forthcoming, in Brooklyn Magazine, Prelude, BUST,
Spork Press, and elsewhere. Joanna also leads workshops at Brooklyn
Poets. joannavalente.com /
Twitter: @joannasaid / IG: joannacvalente
Chris
McCreary's
most recent
book is [
neüro / mäntic ] (Furniture
Press 2014). A chapbook of poems co-written w/ Mark Lamoureux,
Dictionnaire
Infernal,
is forthcoming from Empty Set Press.
Matthew
Landis in Philadelphia. He is a
poet, a musician, and a scholar. He is a member of the World/Inferno
Friendship Society. He has two cats. He almost died once. Ask him
about it sometime. He co-wrote RAINN with
Amy Silbergeld and has a book forthcoming based on the 1st draft of
the Blade Runner script.
It's called So You Want to Build a
Bridge? Keep an eye out
