[New York, NY]

BTW Reading Series with Alexis Almeida, Laura Elrick, and Anne Lesley Selcer
October 24, 2019, 7:00 pm
at Codex Books

Alexis Almeida grew up in Chicago. She is the author of I Have Never Been Able to Sing (UDP 2018), and most recently the translator of Dalia Rosetti’s Dreams and Nightmares (Les Figues, 2018), and Marina Yuszczuk’s Single Mother (Spork, 2019). She teaches in Bard College’s Language and Thinking Program, and at the Bard micrcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library. She lives in New York and runs 18 Owls Press.

Laura Elrick’s most recent book What This Type of Breathing Does will be published by The Elephants in 2020. Previous books include Propagation (from Kenning Editions), Fantasies in Permeable Structures (from Factory School), and Skincerity (from Krupskaya). Her transmedia performances Stalk and Blocks Away explore the psychogeographical terrain of post-9/11 New York. She teaches writing at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

Anne Lesley Selcer is a poet and art writer. She is the author of Blank Sign Book—a collection of essays, and of Sun Cycle—a poetry book about the image. Her gallery publications and chapbooks include from a Book of Poems on Beauty, Banlieusard, and Untitled (a treatise on form). Writing can be found in Hyperallergic, Jacket2, Fillip, Fence, Action Yes, Art Practical, Open Space, Gauss PDF and The Chicago Review, as well as in gallery and museum exhibition catalogs. Work has been included in several anthologies. Occasionally she creates off the page.

 

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