APRIL 29th 7pm: Black Sun Lit Spring 2017 Showcase

Black Sun Lit presents Ali Power, Chelsea Hogue, JD Larson, Tom Haviv & Virginia McLure at the bookstore on Saturday, April 29th at 7pm.







ALI POWER (BSL) is the author of the book-length poem A Poem for Record Keepers (Argos Books, 2016) and the co-editor of New York School Painters & Poets: Neon in Daylight (Rizzoli, 2014). Her poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, LIT, the PEN Poetry Series, Stonecutter and elsewhere. Currently, she is pursuing a master’s degree in social work at New York University and co-curates the KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series.

CHELSEA HOGUE (BSL) currently lives and teaches in Western Massachusetts. Her writing has been published in The White Review, The Collagist, Quarterly West, Autre Mag and elsewhere.

JD LARSON (Vestiges_02) is a poet and translator living in Brooklyn. His translation of Nioque of the Early Spring by Francis Ponge is forthcoming from Red Dust in 2017, and recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Asymptote, The Brooklyn Rail, Gulf Coast, iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, The Volta, Lana Turner and elsewhere. He teaches in the German Department at NYU.

TOM HAVIV (BSL) is a writer, artist and educator from New York City. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in BOMB, Fence, Conjunctions, Prelude, Sakura Review, The Sensation Feelings Journal and elsewhere. His first book, A Flag of No Nation, is forthcoming from The Operating System. He received his MFA from Brooklyn College and is a co-founder of the KAF Collective.

VIRGINIA MCLURE (BSL) is a former Goldwater Fellow in Poetry within New York University’s MFA program, where she completed her thesis under Charles Simic. Her recent writing has appeared or is forthcoming in BOMB, [PANK], Nashville Review, Meridian, Cosmonauts Avenue and elsewhere.