Aditi Bhattacharjee

Aditi Bhattacharjee is an Indian poet who writes about female identity, myth and matrilineage. Her work appears in Lunch Ticket, Sky Island Journal, Evocations Review and elsewhere. When not writing she indulges in cooking or dabbles in Photography.

bec ritchie

bec is a queer poet from glasgow, scotland. interested in intimacies and the body, her work considers all things girly, sexy and online. her poems have been publish both here and in scotland, with her latest work forthcoming in the spring 2024 issue of the beyond queer words anthology later this month.

Javeria Hasnain

Javeria Hasnain is the author of SIN, a chapbook of poems forthcoming from Chestnut Review. She writes about girlhood and godhood as two sides of the same coin. She was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan.

Zohreh Zadbood

Zohreh Zadbood is an Iranian writer, poet, and visual artist. She is currently working on her forthcoming novel and debut poetry collection. Recently, she celebrated the publication of a poem from this collection in the Winter issue of the Kenyon Review in 2025. With her evocative style, Zohreh explores themes of love, healing, homesickness, and self-love. This same artistic style is reflected in her photography as a visual storyteller. Through her poetic eye, she brings life to every frame, transforming everyday scenes into narratives that evoke a sense of wonder and contemplation. Her work has been featured in the Gold Issue of the Los Angeles Press and the Dreams and Nightmares exhibition at Boomer Gallery in London. Moreover her photo collection titled 'Beneath the Blooms: Capturing Nature's Delicate Splendor' was featured on the 'Elizabeth Street Garden' online platform and contributed to the cause of protecting this garden.

Kate Millar

Kate Millar is a poet, educator and music journalist from Scotland and Northern Ireland. She is most often writing about landscape, lost words, and the idea of God - but has recently been writing love poems to her friends. She is one of this year’s Scottish Young Makars, selected by the Scottish Poetry Library, with work appearing in Atwood Magazine, BOMB, Ekstasis, Gutter Magazine, and forthcoming in atmospheric quarterly and Last Stanza Poetry Journal.

María Elisa Schmidt

María Elisa Schmidt is a Mexican writer, editor, and educator who is currently researching and writing about scents and their political and cultural impact. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in magazines in Mexico and Latin America. One of her biggest dreams is to launch a Creative Writing school in Mexico City and share writing tools as a means of empowerment.

Shehrbano Naqvi

Shehrbano Naqvi is a writer and teacher from Karachi, Pakistan. She is currently working on her first book that navigates her family’s journey with grief and mental health, in honor of her late brother. Traveling the world with her cat, she has performed and been published on platforms in Italy, Pakistan and US.

Bronte Heron

Bronte Heron is a poet and educator from Aotearoa (New Zealand). They are working on a collection about ecology and their sisters, and have had poems published by platforms in both the US and NZ. They  are a community organizer, a dog walker, an events coordinator, a loiterer, a wannabe birder, and a fierce friend.

 

Unnameable Greetings Readings Fall  2023 Lineup 

 

With the 2024 elections more than a year away can we really pretend that politics don’t affect us as people & poets: maybe, but even an ostrich has to pull its head out of the sand to eat, so here we be on the precipice of another Glorious season of renewal & rebirth & as we look fwd to seeing the community of poets, musicians, artists & listeners of many stripes gather in the backyard of Unnameable Books this Fall! Come for the music, come for the easy talk of sparrows “in the eaves,” & stay for the poetry & the MUSE. Lovers of the word, please note the Lineup on various Thursdays, taking place at Unnameable Books 615 Vanderbilt Ave., near the corner of St. Marks, in burgeoning Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Events start at 7:00 (note the few exceptions) with a musical meet n’ greet. Performances begin at 7:30 pm. Free to all.

 

September 28thth:           Darcie Dennigan, Charles Theonia & John Godfrey with Other Arc Ensemble                 

 

October 12th:                 Evan Kennedy, Emily Hunt, Mike Lala &  Ahmad Almallah with Paper Trail

October 26th:                   K.B. Nemcosky, Drew Gardener & Maria Damon with Fall Leaves

 

November 2nd:              Gillian McCain, Steve Levine & Stine An with Rip Tide

 

November 16th:             Ian Dreiblatt, Johanna Fuhrman, Filip Marinovich & Christine Chalmers with Ghost Shepherds Begins at 8pm

 

November 30th:             Kate Robinson Beckwith, Andrew Choate, Joe Elliot & Michael Ruby with Mag Wheels & O.A.E.

Thank you all so much for your gracious support of Unnameable Greetings Readings in the past! Hope to see as many old & new faces during this upcoming season. Please keep in mind, the newish space is 2/3 smaller than the previous backyard space. Chairs will of course be set up – but may be limited to 20-25, so seats will be limited to a 1st come, 1st sit basis. Those arriving after seating has been taken may stand against the fence on either side of the entranceway.

 HOLIDAY HOURS

12/24 : 11am - 7pm or so

12/25 : 11am - 12pm Walser Walk Start

12/26 : closed

12/27 : 11am - 11pm (back to normal hours)

 Dear Devotees of the Muse-

 Please, join us as our protean houseband introduces 3 essential poets this Thursday, November 17th, at 8:00pm.

Once again, Unnameable (615 Vanderbilt Ave , near the corner of St. Marks) Books is our gracious host . We'll join with the bushes, fencing, lights, concrete and avian luminaries to enjoy 3 terrific poets & the opening music of Downtown Girls with special guest Tetya Motts:

Brenda HillmanKnows what to say as she grabs a pen or reaches for a keyboard as the loose sugar pours from her fingers onto the page or the screen creates a space for the letters to assemble & jockey for meaning often hidden in the ashes left by the fire of creation

Evelyn Reilly  incorporates an anthropocene bent to use the plastic nature of styrofoam to stave off the impending Apocalypse like a mad yo yo on hiatus, walking the dog in the eternity of the spinning omniverse


Elinor Nauen- Hails from a state that features not one but five famous figures carved into the granite peaks and does quite bit of her own metaphysical carving in the pomes & prose of her career tossing a mean fastball along with a few curves to catch us in life's levity
 
Other Arc Enesmble listens to the streams of one another as if multiple rivers conjoin to form a ring around the hands that bind, the keys that find, the cicatrix that keeps us playing, the notes as sutures to heal the wound, salve for the day's ailments, hoozah.

This event is free. The meet n greet begins at 8:00 as the band plays with the call & response of the wind & ambient street / sky noise. We plan to commence the series at 8:30 sharp with a quick hello, followed by the introduction to the 1st poet/ performer.

Please keep in mind that this Thursday November 17th bodes for a chilly evening with temperatures in the 40's!  Dress with long johns, head coverings, gloves & scarves in mind as we see if the bookstore can source some heating lamps for the Muse's return.

There is limited seating in the new backyard (about 30 seats). There is no basement reading space - so if the weather turns to rain we will have to huddle inside - or cancel - more on that if it becomes a necessity; As always we look forward to seeing old & new faces.

Listen for the bang of the drum or the rattle-shake of the chekere.

X's to your O's,
Jeffrey Joe

GREETINGS 11/10/22 7:00 PM

Dear No Longer Deer in the Headlights: Please join us as our protean houseband introduces 3 wonderful poets this Thursday, November 10th, at 7:00pm.


Once again, Unnameable (615 Vanderbilt Ave , near the corner of St. Marks) Books is our gracious host . We'll join with the bushes, fencing, lights, concrete and avian luminaries to enjoy 3 terrific poets & the opening music of Downtown Girls with special guest Tetya Motts:


Cliff Fymanpratices the life of the pome everyday whether driving the cab or watching the knickerbockers, the park across the way, the falling leaves, the way a syllable lodges in the throat, nylon sunlight against the wall with the sun at its strongest when the ground is covered in leaves or snow or poems.
Garrett CaplesKnows about the extrasensory wires that connect us beyond the ying & yang of politics or genetics, a poet equally at home with the Faces as he is the many faces of hip-hop visiting from the area of the Bay to flip the switch on the city of lights


Wendy Xu- Like many of us, is a charter member of the past forming into the present moment, an acknowledgment that both she & us are not dead but becoming a somewhere quicker than the wind can wipe our name off the surface of the river


The Dan Veksler Experience has been known far & wide to ford rivers, cross mountains, echo philosophical brickbats across great divides, bandy randy tales around campfires, inflate dirigibles and stop prude technocrats in mid keyboard strike - yezzzz, so bring yr evening attire & leave yr galoshes at home as Dan brings his wry wit & geetar to the Greetings whet stone

Drunken Lovers of Tomorrow are a band of troubadour poets who translate their poems into long jams both ethereal & gnostically inclined like a bean curd sandwich inside a deli's plate glass facade each of them musically omnivorous like Galactus without the superpowers each one a grain of sand in the overall schema of future cocktails like skates on the ice of lovers


This event is free. The meet n greet begins at 7:00 as the band plays with the call & response of the wind & ambient street / sky noise. We plan to commence the series at 7:30 sharp with a quick hello, followed by the introduction to the 1st poet/ performer.


Please keep in mind that this Thursday November 10th calls for lots of sun (64 during the sunshine) but it will get chillier especially as the day turns to the magic hour and evening's cloak falls over our shoulders.. So don't be afraid of your Autumn Sweaters or come without shirt sleeves, the backyard does not discriminate tho 54 is predicted for the evening!


There is limited seating in the new backyard (about 30 seats). There is no basement reading space - so if the weather turns to rain we will have to huddle inside - or cancel - more on that if it becomes a necessity; however the cast of the fore bodes well for night lows to mid 50's so dress as you see fit. As always we look forward to seeing old & new faces.


Listen for the bang of the drum or the rattle-shake of the chekere.


X's to your O's,
Jeffrey Joe

GREETINGS 11/3/22 7:00 P.M.

 

Dear Coping With New World-Old World Feelings Surge::

Please join us as our protean houseband introduces 3 wonderful poets this Thursday, November 3rd, at 7:00pm. 

Once again, Unnameable (615 Vanderbilt Ave , near the corner of St. Marks) Books is our gracious host . We'll join with the bushes, fencing, lights, concrete and avian luminaries to enjoy 3 terrific poets & the opening music of Downtown Girls with special guest Tetya Motts:

Annabel Lee:  innovation comes naturally for this titan of the small press printing & publishing world, who’s done extensive traveling in both the greater & lesser vehicle, the train that doth ride, carrying so many readers to the shores of satori & back

 John Yau Appreciates the glimmer of the ephemeral, as his pomes & prose have attested to long live life’s little moments; his poetry is as prolific as his art criticism and we heard tell he can play a mean set of drums as well

Christie Towers  - drops us right into the world we left several centuries ago hoping we'd come back in a more benevolent form & whether that be true or not we'll just have to sit tight and bend our ears so that her visions travel down the auricular path to settle upon our brain

Ghost Shepherds: travel the roads between cloud & sand, grassy knoll & glass shards scattered over rough concrete of city sidewalk streets, not necessarily a sheep they herd but thoughts turned into music notes run deep down the slope past the wolf's den to pool about the base of mountains forming streams of connectivity the willing may sup from & thus become revitalized 

This event is free. The meet n greet begins at 7:00 as the band plays with the call & response of the birds. We plan to commence the series at 7:30 sharp with a quick hello, followed by the introduction to the 1st poet/ performer. 

Please keep in mind that this Thursday November 3rd calls for lots of sun (68 during the sunshine) but it will get chillier especially as the day turns to the magic hour and evening's cloak falls over our shoulders.. So don't be afraid of your Autumn Sweaters or come without shirt sleeves, the backyard does not discriminate.

There is limited seating in the new backyard (about 30 seats). There is no basement reading space - so if the weather turns to rain we will have to huddle inside - or cancel - more on that if it becomes a necessity; however the cast of the fore bodes well for night lows to mid 55's so dress as you see fit. As always we look forward to seeing old & new faces. 

Listen for the bang of the drum or the rattle-shake of the chekere. 

X's to your O's,

Jeffrey Joe

 

Dear Somewhat More Open Beings::

Please join us as we convene to ring in this Thursday with 4 wonderful poets this Thursday, October 20th, at 7:00pm. 

Once again, Unnameable (615 Vanderbilt Ave , near the corner of St. Marks) Books is our gracious host . We'll join with the bushes, fencing, lights, concrete and avian luminaries to enjoy 3 terrific poets & the opening music of Downtown Girls with special guest Tetya Motts:

Alex Tatarsky: understands the Theatre is not closed! All the actors may be sick, but the clown did not go home, instead they had a good idea & got excited and so here we waiting for the shoe to drop when out comes a revolution!

 Basie Allen tests the fabric of the paper, the tensile pull of the muse to pick up the pen or the brush & excavate from raw experience & feeling the object we shall see & hear, the idea come actually to physical space to fruit & inhabit the space & places between our ears

Karen Weiser  chips away the layers upon layers to discover the kernel made when we were 3 or 6 or 9, now forming a logic that is unconscious and knows no bodily bounds

Marko Pogacar - is a brother in a storm as he listens in a canary suit below the wind howling as we will listen to him tonite illuminated, set aglow by residue of a Neon South dogging his most pleasurable trail

The Red Kremlin: are really a group of guys who never took the opportunity to be communists so the music may morph into something other than it usually does or maybe not! That's the beauty of jazz Psych improvisation, it goes where the evening & players takes it, so take your seat & listen as the tunes lace into early evening bird call.

This event is free. The meet n greet begins at 7:00 as the band plays with the call & response of the birds. We plan to commence the series at 7:30 sharp with a quick hello, followed by the introduction to the 1st poet/ performer. 

Please keep in mind that this Thursday October 20th calls for lots of sun within the high fifties but it will get chillier especially as the day turns to the magic hour and avian cousins get chirpy... So don't be afraid of your Autumn Sweaters or come without shirt sleeves, the backyard does not discriminate.

There is limited seating in the new backyard (about 30 seats). There is no basement reading space - so if the weather turns to rain we will have to huddle inside - or cancel - more on that if it becomes a necessity; however the cast of the fore bodes well for night lows to mid 55's so dress as you see fit. As always we look forward to seeing old & new faces. 

Listen for the bang of the drum or the rattle-shake of the chekere. 

X's to your O's,

Jeffrey Joe

Jed Shahar