[Montréal]

ZUTIQUE 8: Prise de la Bastille
July 14, 2018, 8:00 pm
at Zutique 8

A reading with Connor Messinger, David Bradford, Diana Hamilton, Jameson Fitzpatrick, Madeleine Braun, and Parker Menzimer. Click here to be linked to the facebook event. Connor Messinger is a poet and translator currently living in Iowa City. She is the author of the digital chapbook “The Love of God” (Inpatient Press, 2016) and “The Land Was V There” (89+/LUMA, 2014). Her translation of Juana Isola’s “You Need a Long Table Behind a Pile of Firewood to Have Lunch with Your Children in Ray Bans” is out now from Monster House Press. David Bradford is the author of Nell Zink Is Damn Free (Blank Cheque Press, 2017) and Call Out (knife | fork | book, 2017). His work has appeared in Lemon Hound, Prairie Fire, Vallum, The Capilano Review, Poetry Is Dead, and elsewhere. An OG Fellow at the University of Guelph, David lives in Verdun, Qc, on the traditional and unceded land of the Kanien’kehá:ka people. Diana Hamilton is the author of three books—God Was Right (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Awful Truth (Golias Books), and Okay, Okay (Truck Books)—and four chapbooks. She writes poetry, fiction, and criticism about style, crying, shitting, kissing, dreaming, and fainting. Jameson Fitzpatrick is the author of the chapbooks Morrisroe: Erasures (89plus/LUMA Publications) and Mr. & (Indolent Books). His poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2017, The New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere. Madeleine Braun’s poetry has appeared in Matrix, The Stockholm Review, Bomb Magazine and is forthcoming in Elderly. She is originally from Winnipeg, MB and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she runs a bi-monthly reading series out of her backyard. Parker Menzimer is a writer, editor, and bookmaker from Albany, California. From 2015-2017 he hosted the Group Huddle Reading and Chapbook series at Topos Books in Ridgewood, Queens. He lives between Brooklyn and Hudson, NY, where he serves as editorial assistant at Princeton Architectural Press. ZUTIQUE is an occasional reading series focused on poetry, poetics, performance, and sound curated by Michael Nardone.