Maureen Thorson & Juliana Spahr @ Segue

The Segue Reading Series at the Bowery Poetry Club curated this month by Chris Alexander & Kristen Gallagher welcome

JULIANA SPAHR & MAUREEN THORSON for a Saturday afternoon reading.

Juliana Spahr edits with Jena Osman the book series Chain Links. She recently edited with Stephanie Young A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism. She is writing with David Buucka book about two friends who are writers in a time of war and ecological collapse. And she organized with Joshua Clover the 95 cent Skool, a week long something or other, last summer and is currently organizing the Durutti/Durruti Free Skool for this summer.

Maureen Thorson is a poet, publisher, and book designer living in Washington, D.C.  She is the author of a number of chapbooks, including Twenty Questions for the Drunken Sailor (2009), Mayport (2006), which won the Poetry Society of America’s National Chapbook Fellowship, and Novelty Act (Ugly Duckling Presse 2004). Her poems can be found in many anthologies and journals, including the forthcoming Yale Anthology of Younger American Poets, Exquisite Corpse, Hotel Amerika, LIT, The Hat, and 6×6. Maureen is the publisher and editor of Big Game Books, a small press dedicated to emerging poets. She is also the co-curator of the In Your Ear reading series at the DC Arts Center and the founder of NaPoWriMo, an annual project in which poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. Her first full-length book is Applies to Oranges.

$6 admission goes to support the readers