[New York]

Republican Debate Watch Party
September 16, 2015, 8:00 pm
at The Artist's Institute

Poets Robert Fitterman, Joseph Kaplan, Monica McClure, and Monica de la Torre will join the Republican candidates in a live debate moderated by CNN's Jake Tapper. Reading interventions from 8PM-9:30PM. Artwork by Fia Backstrom. Robert Fitterman is the author of 14 books of poetry including No, Wait Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself (UDP), Holocaust Museum(Counterpath / Veer), now we are friends (Truck Books), Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books, 2009),war, the musical(Subpress), and Notes on Conceptualisms, co-authored with Vanessa Place (UDP). Josef Kaplan is the author of All Nightmare: Introductions, 2011-2012 (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014), Kill List (Cars Are Real, 2013), and Democracy Is Not for the People (Truck Books, 2012). His recent work has appeared inLana Turner, Rethinking Marxism, The Claudius App, and the Poetic Labor Project. He lives in Queens. Mónica de la Torre has published poetry and conceptual art books in Spanish and English, including the artist book Appendices, Illustrations and Notes (Smart Art Press) and the poetry books Acúfenos (Taller Ditoria) and Talk Shows (Switchback Books). She is co-editor of the multilingual anthology Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon P) and translator and editor of the bilingual volume Poems by Gerardo Deniz (Taller Ditoria/ Lost Roads). More Info Here