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FEB 8 2019 Choice & Monsters: A Reading
Friday, February 8, 2019 at 7 PM – 10 PM
We will read on the themes of choice' and/or 'the dream of reason produces monsters (from the goya painting) or 'the end of monsters' (via beckett), followed by work of our own--
FEB1 2019
Small Countries in Big Literatures
Please join us at the reunion reading of BEN BUSH and CHARLOTTE CROWE - two Sozopol Fiction Seminars' fellows who will be reading from literary works set in Bulgaria and in Greece.
The reading is part of the series Small Counties in Big Literatures embracing Anglophone literature set elsewhere in the world.
BEN BUSH is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a 2017-2018 Fulbright Fellow to Bulgaria, and a contributing editor for The Organist podcast from McSweeney's / KCRW. His work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Yeti, The Fanzine, Salon, Bookforum, The Believer, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poets & Writers, and San Francisco Chronicle.
CHARLOTTE CROWE holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MA in English from the University of Oxford, where she completed a dissertation on Virginia Woolf and Jane Ellen Harrison, the first female classicist and archaeologist in the UK. A 2017 Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction, she currently works at the Brooklyn Public Library and is writing her first novel.
JULY 21: Elm Tree Children's Poetry Reading
Join
us on July 21st at 5pm for an evening of poetry readings by the
children of Elm Tree Poetry.
About
the Program:
Elm
Tree Poetry is a place-based poetry program for children in and
around Prospect Park. We aim to foster a positive relationship with
poetry during early childhood, and to ignite an interest in the
literary arts. On July 21, Unnameable Books will be hosting Elm
Tree’s first poetry reading, featuring the works of our students,
on subjects ranging from the personal to the political.
Founders
and Teaching Artists:
Romy
Feder: Romy is a co-founder of Elm Tree Poetry. She
grew up on the Upper West Side of New York City. She earned her
bachelor’s degree at Pitzer College, Claremont, CA. in Media
Studies and Creative Writing. In 2011, she received a Fulbright
English Teaching Fellowship and taught at the University of Costa
Rica, San Jose. She led poetry workshops for students and faculty and
gave lectures on North American history and culture. She is a 2013
recipient of the Truman Capote Foundation Scholarship and a Graduate
Council Fellowship to study at the University of Alabama MFA in
poetry. She is currently attending Hunter College for her Master's in
Early Childhood Education. This upcoming school year, she will be a
full-time assistant teacher at the Williamsburg Neighborhood Nursery
School.
Rod
Bastanmehr: Rod grew up in Marin County, California.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in Film Theory and Cultural
Criticism from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has been
writing professionally ever since. After graduating in 2011, he
worked as an Assistant Editor for a Bay Area metro newspaper before
moving to New York the following year. Since arriving, he has served
as a Copy Editor, a Managing Editor, and political blogger for a
number of publications. He currently writes about film and media for
VICE, and has contributed to The Atlantic, Salon, Slate, Los Angeles
Review Of Books and more. He has been nannying in and around Park
Slope for over two years, caring for children as young as six-months
and as old as twelve. He’s excited for the chance to gallivant
around the park with precocious kids.
Sally
Rodgers: Sally is a co-founder of Elm Tree Poetry. She
lives in Tucson, Arizona. For the past two years, she has taught at
the elementary and middle school levels with the IDEA School in
Tucson, Arizona. In the fall, she will begin a new position as the
Executive Director at a literary arts nonprofit called Casa Libre.
After earning her bachelor’s degree from Portland State University,
she worked for two years as a preschool teacher at Tucson’s Second
Street Children’s School. Her tenure at Second Street ended with a
move to Alabama where she received her MFA in poetry. She founded the
University of Alabama Writers in the Schools Program with her friend
Kenny Kruse. In this program, she acted as both Associate Director
and Director of Curriculum.
JUNE 1, 7PM: Shelter Speaker Series
Join us on June 1st at 7pm for the Shelter Speaker Series!
ANNA DREZEN
is a comedian and writer for Saturday Night Live. She's the editor-at-large of Reductress and coauthor of the books How May We Hate You? and How To Win At Feminism. She performs regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, The PIT, and Union Hall. www.annadrezen.com
SALLY WEN MAO
is a poet and educator, the author of Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014) and the forthcoming Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019). Her poetry has appeared in The Pushcart Prize anthology, The Best American Poetry 2013, Poetry, Harvard Review Online, and A Public Space. Currently she is a fellow at the New York Public Library Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
NICOLE R. FLEETWOOD
is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (University of Chicago Press 2011) and On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination (Rutgers University Press, 2015). Her research has been supported by the Whiting Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, Schomburg Center for Black Culture/ NYPL, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is the recipient of the 2012 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize of the American Studies Association. Currently, she is in residence at the NYPL Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, completing a book manuscript on art and visual culture in the era of mass incarceration.
SHELTER is a speaker series bringing different ideas together under one roof.
ANNA DREZEN
is a comedian and writer for Saturday Night Live. She's the editor-at-large of Reductress and coauthor of the books How May We Hate You? and How To Win At Feminism. She performs regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, The PIT, and Union Hall. www.annadrezen.com
SALLY WEN MAO
is a poet and educator, the author of Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014) and the forthcoming Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019). Her poetry has appeared in The Pushcart Prize anthology, The Best American Poetry 2013, Poetry, Harvard Review Online, and A Public Space. Currently she is a fellow at the New York Public Library Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
NICOLE R. FLEETWOOD
is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (University of Chicago Press 2011) and On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination (Rutgers University Press, 2015). Her research has been supported by the Whiting Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, Schomburg Center for Black Culture/ NYPL, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is the recipient of the 2012 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize of the American Studies Association. Currently, she is in residence at the NYPL Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, completing a book manuscript on art and visual culture in the era of mass incarceration.
SHELTER is a speaker series bringing different ideas together under one roof.
MAY 16TH, 7PM: The Australian by Emma Smith-Stevens Book Launch
Join us at the store on May 16th at 7pm for the book launch of Emma Smith-Stevens' The Australian.
About the Book:
In her humorous and emotionally resonant debut, Emma Smith-Stevens follows the exploits and evolution of a young man—known only as the Australian—over the course of a dozen years, from his time in Melbourne, posing as Superman for tourist photos, to his life in New York, where he spends years unemployed before stumbling into fame and fortune.
Readers include:
Emma Smith-Stevens
Rachel Khong
Nick Flynn
Aaron Their
About the Book:
In her humorous and emotionally resonant debut, Emma Smith-Stevens follows the exploits and evolution of a young man—known only as the Australian—over the course of a dozen years, from his time in Melbourne, posing as Superman for tourist photos, to his life in New York, where he spends years unemployed before stumbling into fame and fortune.
Readers include:
Emma Smith-Stevens
Rachel Khong
Nick Flynn
Aaron Their
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