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February 2020
Book Launch for In Praise of Fragments: In Celebration of Meena Alexander (2/17)
Join us on Monday, February 17th for the launch of In Praise of Fragments by Meena Alexander. This intimate celebration of Meena Alexander's life will feature readings by her family and friends. The event will take place at Callicoon Fine Arts on 49 Delancey Street, NYC at 6:30 pm. See more info here!
Find out more »Bryant Park Winter Poetry Salon ft. Rosamond S. King! 2/18
JP Howard's Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon features for Bryant Park's Winter Reading Series on Tuesday, February 18, 2020, 6-7:30pm, at Kinokuniya! Dynamic Salon poets Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Donika Kelly, Rosamond S. King (Rock | Salt | Stone) and Yesenia Montilla will share their powerful poetry and their books will be available for purchase and signing. More info can be found here.
Find out more »John Keene and P. Djéli Clark in Conversation with Rosamond King! 2/18
Join us February 18th at NYU to hear writers John Keene and P. Djèlí Clark read from their fiction and engage in a conversation moderated by Nightboat author Rosamond S. King (Rock | Salt | Stone)! More info can be found here.
Find out more »Asiya Wadud at Danspace Project! (2/22-3/7)
Asiya Wadud, author of Crosslight for Youngbird, will be speaking and performing as part of Danspace Project's PLATFORM 2020: Utterances from the Chorus. The series runs from February 22nd to March 21st, and Asiya Wadud presents on the following dates: Sat., February 22, 12-5pm: Opening, SATURDAY AFTERNOON CONVERSATION #1: PLATFORM AS PRACTICE: COLLABORATIVE ORGANIZING Fri., February 28, 6-10pm: SITTING ON A MAN'S HEAD Sat., March 7, 11am-4pm: SATURDAY AFTERNOON CONVERSATION #3: SIMONE LEIGH & OKWUI OKPOKWASILI IN CONVERSATION WITH THE VOICE AND BODY…
Find out more »Amy Berkowitz in Conversation with Simi Anderson at NYU (2/24)
Join us on Monday, February 24th for SICK AND TENDER: Simi Anderson & Amy Berkowitz in Conversation, hosted by The Colloquium for Unpopular Culture and co-sponsored by MCC, NYU Center for Disability Studies, and NYU Department of English. "An invisible illness with uncertain causes and imprecise diagnostic criteria, fibromyalgia is largely defined by its mystery. And yet, when the onset of this pain follows a traumatic event (as it often does), it's hard not to understand that trauma as a certain kind of…
Find out more »Launch for Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader! 2/24
Join us on February 24th at The Poetry Project for the release of Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader, edited by Jamie Alexander! Featuring Nayland Blake, Alexander Chee, Todd Colby, CA Conrad, Ariel Goldberg, Hugh Ryan, Rakesh Satyal and Sarah Schulman, as well as Steve Abbott's daughter, Alysia Abbott. More information can be found here.
Find out more »Sarah Riggs at Albertine! (2/26)
Sarah Riggs, translator of Etel Adnan's Time, will be in conversation with John Freeman at Albertine Bookstore on Wednesday, February 26th! The event starts at 6:30 pm and is free to the public. More information can be found here.
Find out more »Myung Mi Kim and Eleni Sikelianos at The Poetry Project! (2/26)
Nightboat authors Myung Mi Kim (DURA) and Eleni Sikelianos (What I Knew) will read at The Poetry Project on Wednesday, February 26th! The event starts at 8 PM, with tickets at $8 for General Admission and $7 for Students and Seniors. More information can be found here.
Find out more »Ariel Goldberg Moderating a Conversation at the Poetry Project! (2/28)
Ariel Goldberg, author of The Estrangement Principle, has guest curated a speaking event on photographer Berenice Abbott and poet Muriel Rukeyser at The Poetry Project! Scholars Sarah M. Miller and Eric Keenaghan will speak on Abbott and Rukeyser respectively, followed by a conversation moderated by Goldberg. The talk takes place on Friday, February 28th at 8 pm. More information can be found here.
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