Oh, it’s going to be a good one! On September 15th, 7pm at Shrine in Harlem, we will gather for an electric night of literature and collaboration. Come out to hear writer and musician J. Mae Barizo, poets Morgan Parker and Greg Pardlo, and essayist Kent Russell. Join us at 7pm at Shrine, located at 2271 Adam Clayton Powell (7th Ave) between 133rd and 134th in Harlem. By subway: 2/3 to 135th, or B/C to 135th. As always, admission is free. Bar is cash only.
J. Mae Barizo is the author of The Cumulus Effect (Four Way Books, 2015). A prize-winning poet, critic and performer, recent work appears in AGNI, Bookforum, Boston Review and Los Angeles Review of Books. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Jerome Foundation, Poets House and Bennington College. She is the founding co-editor of Fields Press, a micropress specializing in limited edition, hand-bound chapbooks. A classically-trained musician and an advocate of cross-genre collaboration, she lives in New York City.
Gregory Pardlo‘s collection Digest (Four Way Books) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Digest was also shortlisted for the 2015 NAACP Image Award and is a current finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; his first collection Totem was selected by Brenda Hillman for the APR/Honickman Prize in 2007. Pardlo’s poems appear in The Nation, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. Pardlo lives with his family in Brooklyn.
Morgan Parker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015), selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize. Morgan received her Bachelors in Anthropology and Creative Writing from Columbia University and her MFA in Poetry from NYU. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in numerous publications, as well as anthologized in Why I Am Not A Painter and The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. She has done editorial work for Apogee Journal, No, Dear Magazine, and The Atlas Review. Winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize and a Cave Canem graduate fellow, Morgan works as an Editor for Amazon Publishing’s imprint Little A, and moonlights as poetry editor of The Offing. She also teaches Creative Writing at Columbia University and co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico.
Kent Russell is a writer from Miami, Florida, whose essays and reportage have appeared in Harper’s, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, n+1, Tin House, Grantland, and other publications. His first book, I Am Sorry To Think I Have Raised a Timid Son, is available now.
Join us 7pm Tuesday night, September 15th, at Shrine!