[New York]

Reading & Book Party: Fitterman, Hayashida, Buck
May 11, 2018, 7:00 pm
at Stellar Projects

Free entry. Books at discount. Refreshments provided. The Readers: Marie Buck is the author of Life & Style (Patrick Lovelace Editions, 2009), Portrait of Doom (Krupskaya, 2015), and Goodnight, Marie, May God Have Mercy on Your Soul (Roof Books, 2017). She curates the online literary section of Social Text, where she is also managing editor, and recently completed a doctoral dissertation on newspapers, pamphlets, and other writing of the Black Power and Women’s Liberation movements. You can find some of her recent poems and essays in Theme Can and Prelude. She grew up in South Carolina, spent time in western Massachusetts and Detroit, and currently lives in Brooklyn. Robert Fitterman is the author of 15 books of poetry including This Window Makes Me Feel (UDP, 2018), Nevermind (Wonder Books, 2016), Rob’s Word Shop (UDP, forthcoming, 2018), No Wait, Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself (UDP, 2014), Holocaust Museum (Counterpath, 2013, and Veer [London] 2012), now we are friends (Truck Books, 2010), Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books, 2009), war, the musical(Subpress, 2006), and Metropolis—a long poem in 4 separate volumes, and is the co-author of Notes on Conceptualisms (UDP, 2009). He has collaborated with several visual artists, including Serkan Ozkaya, Nayland Blake, Fia Backström, Tim Davis and Klaus Killisch, and is the founding member of the international artists and writers collective, Collective Task. He teaches at New York University and is a member of the writing faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College. Jennifer Hayashida is a poet, translator, and artist. Her first full-length collection A Machine Wrote This Song is just out from Gramma Poetry. Her translations from the Swedish include work by Ida Börjel, Athena Farrokhzad, and Fredrik Nyberg (A Different Practice, UDP, 2017), and she is the recipient of awards from organizations such as the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She serves on the board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Born in Oakland, CA, Hayashida grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and the suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden. She earned her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.F.A. from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. More info here.