What to do in NYC Next Week
If you're NYC-bound next week and the city hasn't been besieged by massive floodwaters as the whopping total of 56.6 inches of snowfall melts—find inspiration to go out with a few of these handy event listings.
Sunday, February 23
Live from the POEMobile: Korean Lunar New Year
Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Boulevard , Flushing, NY
6:30 - 8:30 PMA Lunar New Year Celebration of Korean Poetry and Music at Flushing Town Hall: With the new moon on January 31st, the Year of the Horse races in, beginning the Lunar New Year in Korea, China, and many parts of Asia, as part of the Lunar New Year Festival, the POEMobile highlights contemporary and classic Korean poems and songs with a combined outdoor/indoor poetry performance by Cross-Cultural Communications and Korean traditional music and dance at Flushing Town Hall on February 23, 2014, at 6:30pm, sponsored by City Lore, Bowery Arts + Science, CATCH, and Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, in collaboration with the Korean Art Society and Korean Expatriate Literature.
Award-winning poet and novelist Sang-Hee Kwak and Korean-American poet Christina Shin, professor and translator Hong Ai Bai, and Kwang-Ryul Cho, son of the late, noted poet and critic Cho Ji-Hoon, will read poems on the subjects of spring, renewal, homeland, and love, accompanied by projections of text from the poems. English language readings will be provided by poet, translator, and publisher Stanley H. Barkan.
Monday, February 24
The Poetry Project
131 E. 10th Street
8:00 pmTommy Pico is the founder and editor in chief of birdsong, an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press, and zine that publishes art and writing. He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry, and has been published in BOMB, [PANK], and THEthe poetry blog. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn. In Jan. 2014 he released “Absent Mindr”– the first collection of poetry published as an APP for iOS mobile/tablet devices, developed by Verbal Visual.
Christopher Schmidt is the author of a book of poems, The Next in Line (2009), a chapbook, Thermae (2012) and a critical study, The Poetics of Waste (2014). He is an contributing editor at The Conversant and an Editor-at-Large for Essay Press. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Bard College, Hunter College, and is an Associate Professor at LaGuardia Community College. He is a virgo.
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Julie Meneret Contemporary Art
133 Orchard Street, New York, NY
6:00 PM - 8:00 PMSaskia Hamilton will give a reading of her work on the occasion of the gallery reception for Monstrares, Jonny Briggs' photography exhibition. He is a British conceptual photographer whose work focuses on the latent yet powerful effects of familial memory. Through elaborate staging, he creates uncanny effects that appear digitally manipulated but are in fact three-dimensional scenes. Briggs’ dark and lyrical imagery provides us the perfect opportunity to host the acclaimed poet Saskia Hamilton, who will give a reading on the evening of Februrary 26.
Tuesday, February 25
Poets House
10 River Terrace
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The author of many collections in Arabic, including the newly translated Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan reads from and discusses his visceral, narrative poetics with fellow poet and translator Fady Joudah.Award-winning poet Mark Doty introduces the pair. - See more at: http://www.poetshouse.org/programs-and-events/readings-and-conversations/straw-bird-it-follows-me-ghassan-zaqtan-fady-joudah-m#sthash.dD2CxzGf.dpufWednesday, February 26
The Poetry Project
131 E. 10th Street
8:00 pmJoan Retallack is the author of eight books of poetry, including Procedural Elegies / Western Civ Cont’d (Roof Books)– an Artforum Best Book of 2010 – Memnoir (Post-Apollo Press, 2004), and How To Do Things With Words (Sun & Moon Press, 1998) as well as numerous critical studies including the introduction to the 2012 Yale edition of Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation, Gertrude Stein: Selections (2008), Poetry & Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary (Palgrave, 2006), The Poethical Wager (University of California Press, 2003), and MUSICAGE: John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack (University Press of New England, 1996) which has recently been translated into Spanish.
Juliana Spahr edits with Jena Osman the book series Chain Links, with nineteen other poets she edits of the collectively funded Subpress, and with Joshua Clover and Jasper Bernes she will begin editing Commune Editions. With David Buuck she wrote Army of Lovers, a book about two friends who are writers in a time of war and ecological collapse (City Lights, 2013). She has edited with Stephanie Young A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism (Chain Links, 2011), with Joan Retallack Poetry & Pedagogy: the Challenge of the Contemporary (Palgrave, 2006), and with Claudia Rankine she edited American Women Poets in the 21st Century (Wesleyan U P, 2002). With Joshua Clover she has organized the 95 cent Skool (summer of 2010) and the Durruti Free Skool (summer of 2011).
Saturday, March 1
Segue Reading Series at the Zinc Bar
82 WEST 3rd STREET, BETWEEN THOMPSON AND SULLIVAN STS.
4:30 - 6:30 PMJOSEF KAPLAN & MARIANNE MORRIS
Josef Kaplan is the author of Kill List (Cars Are Real, 2013) and Democracy Is Not for the People (Truck Books, 2012). A chapbook of critical writing, All Nightmare: Introductions, 2011–2012, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.
Marianne Morris lives in Oakland, CA. Her first collection, The On All Said Things Moratorium, is published by Enitharmon Press in the UK. Most recent chapbooks include Alphabet Poems (BookThug), DSK (Tipped Press) and Commitment (Critical Documents). She started Bad Press in 2003.
Curated by Charity Coleman and Corina Copp
Right on, snow bunnies!