Weird Girls Con: with Jordan Franklin, Jiwon Choi, Swati Khurana , JP Howard, Alexandra Dine , Lisa Marie Basile, Sarah Bridgins, Wendy Chin-Tanner, and Patricia Grisafi
Oct
8
5:00 PM17:00

Weird Girls Con: with Jordan Franklin, Jiwon Choi, Swati Khurana , JP Howard, Alexandra Dine , Lisa Marie Basile, Sarah Bridgins, Wendy Chin-Tanner, and Patricia Grisafi

Weird Girls Con features a fierce line-up of writers who will change the way you think about writing with their fearless and innovative approaches to their craft. I am excited to announce that we will be having a special performance by Batala New York, the premier all-women, Black-led percussion ensemble. I couldn't be more excited!

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Oct
3
6:00 PM18:00

St. Francis College Unbound: with Jive Poetic, Mitch Levenberg, Ian Maloney, Jason Dubow and Theo Gangi; THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2022 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT

In the spirit of the St. Francis College MFA Program's literary journal, Unbound Brooklyn, professors from St. Francis's MFA/Literature, Writing and Publishing program will read from work on the theme of that which is unbound: the limitless, the unfettered, the free. This reading will feature work that centers rebellion, rule breaking, taking creative risks, and producing radical innovation. Readers from the MFA faculty will include Theo Gangi, Jason Dubow, Mitch Levenberg, Ian Maloney, Caroline Hagood, and Jive Poetic.

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Sep
26
6:00 PM18:00

Hanging Loose Press: St. Francis College: Kill Genre: with Wang Ping, Jiwon Choi, Mark Pawlak and Sharon Mesmer; THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2022 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT

This panel features Hanging Loose Press poets who work in other genres/formats—and often blend genres to write in modes that are difficult to categorize in compelling ways. This panel will look at what it means to switch or blend genres/formats as an author. It will also explore the field of hybrid writing and examine its cultural impact and uses. Featured writers will include Wang Ping, Caroline Hagood, Jiwon Choi, Mark Pawlak, and Sharon Mesmer.

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Jun
29
6:30 PM18:30

Poetry Reading With Joanna Fuhrman and Special Guests

Join us at the garden for a belated book launch of To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021) and 50th birthday poetry reading for its author, Joanna Fuhrman, whose sixth poetry collection is a fearless blend of the real and the surreal, the political and the personal, all with the marks of her own kind of accelerated dizzying style that nevertheless brings you along with it.

Numerous poets will read new work on new eras, aging and birthdays. Special guests include Martine Bellen, Jiwon Choi, Gregory Crosby, Elaine Equi, Stacy Gnall, Nada Gordon, Caroline Hagood, Christine Hamm, Emily Wallis Hughes, Laurel Kallen, Adeena Karasick, Kate Lutzner, Shelley Marlow, Sheila Maldonado, Suzanne Osborne, Jean-Paul Pecqueur, Jerome Sala, Yerra Sugarman, and Abigail Welhouse.

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