Mary Austin Speaker, Chris Martin, & Douglas Piccinnini back in Brooklyn for a reading

Three former Brooklyners return to the borough for a reading: Chris Martin, Mary Austin Speaker, and Douglas Piccinnini. It’s also a double book release party for Mary’s CEREMONY, and Douglas’s (delta). And it’s in the the most exciting new booky space there is: Mellow Pages. Tuesday 9/177:30 p.m.Mellow Pages Library56 Bogart St. 1S, Brooklyn, New York 11206Chris Martin is the author of American Music (Copper Canyon, 2007) and Becoming Weather (Coffee House, 2011). He is also the author of several chapbooks, including How to Write a Mistake-ist Poem (Brave Men, 2011), enough (Ugly Duckling, 2012), and the serially released CHAT (Flying Object, 2012). New poems are soon to arrive from Fence, SPOKE TOO SOON, Paperbag, and The Cultural Society. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, the poet Mary Austin Speaker, and is an editor at Futurepoem books.Mary Austin Speaker is the author of Ceremony, winner of the 2012 Slope Editions book prize; The Bridge (Push Press 2011); 20 Love Poems for 10 Months (Ugly Duckling Presse 2012); and a collaborative play, written with her husband, poet Chris Martin. She co-founded the Triptych poetry reading series in New York City and designs books for HarperCollins, Alice James, The Song Cave, University of Iowa Press and others. New poems have recently appeared in Boston Review, Jubilat, Forklift Ohio, and elsewhere, and her critical work can be found in Pleiades, The Claudius App, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She lives in Minneapolis, where she operates a tiny design studio. Douglas Piccinnini is the author of the chapbooks (delta) with Cynthia Gray and Camilo Roldán, Soft (The Cultural Society), Crystal Hard-On (Minutes Books) and Flag (Well Greased Press)—an encoded chromaglyph. His first full-length collection of poems, Blood Oboe, will be published by Omnidawn in 2015.