[New York, NY]

Poetry Reading with Alexis Almeida & Alan Felsenthal
August 17, 2019, 7:00 pm
at Essex Flowers

Poetry Reading with Alexis Almeida, Alan Felsenthal, and Christine Hou, organized by Emily Hunt

Alexis Almeida’s long poem, I Have Never Been Able to Sing, is recently out from Ugly Duckling Presse. Her translation of Florencia Castellano’s Propiedades vigiladas[Monitored Properties] is also recently out from UDP, and her translation of Roberta Iannamico’s Tendal [Wreckage] is just out from Toad Press. She was a Fulbright research fellow to Argentina, and has received residencies and awards from Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, the Banff Centre, Bread Loaf, the Center for Books Arts, the Emily Harvey Foundation, and the University of Colorado, where she did her MFA. She teaches in the Language and Thinking Program at Bard, and at the Bard microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library.

Alan Felsenthal is the author of Lowly (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017). He runs a small press called The Song Cave with Ben Estes. Together they edited A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton (2013). His writing has appeared in BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Critical Quarterly, jubilat, Harper’s, and the New York Times Magazine. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York.

Christine Shan Shan Hou is a poet and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Publications include Community Garden for Lonely Girls (Gramma Poetry 2017), I’m Sunlight (The Song Cave 2016), C O N C R E T E  S O U N D (2011) a collaborative artists’ book with Audra Wolowiec, and Accumulations (Publication Studio 2010) featuring drawings by Hannah Rawe. She has received awards from The Key West Literary Seminar, The Flow Chart Foundation/Academy for American Poets, and Naropa University.

Emily Hunt is the author of the poetry collection Dark Green (The Song Cave, 2015), named a standout debut by Publishers Weekly and a “Must-Read Poetry Debut” by Lit Hub. Her most recent works are Company (The Song Cave, 2019), a poetry chapbook, and Cousins (Cold Cube Press, 2019), a book of photographs.

 

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