UDP at the Brooklyn Public Library: Dodie Bellamy, Robert Fitterman & Josef Kaplan

Dodie Bellamy is a novelist, poet, and essayist. Her Ugly Duckling chapbook Barf Manifestowas named best book of 2009 under 30 pages by Time Out New York. Other books include the buddhist, Academonia, Pink Steam, The Letters of Mina Harker, and Cunt-Ups, which won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for poetry. Recent projects include Cunt Norton (Les Figues, 2013), in which she takes the second edition of the Norton Anthology of Poetry and sexualizes it in the language of porn and desire; New Narrative: 1975-1995, a Nightboat Books anthology she’s editing with Kevin Killian; and When the Sick Rule the World, her third collection of essays, forthcoming from Semiotext(e). Her reflections on the Occupy Oakland movement, “The Beating of Our Hearts,” has been published as chapbook in conjunction with the 2014 Whitney Biennial.Robert Fitterman is the author of 14 books of poetry including No Wait, Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014), Holocaust Museum (Counterpath, 2013, Veer 2012), now we are friends (Truck Books, 2010), Rob the Plagiarist(Roof Books, 2009), war, the musical (Subpress, 2006), and Notes on Conceptualisms, co-authored with Vanessa Place (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009). His long poemMetropolis, has been published in 4 separate volumes. Rob’s Word Shop — an artist’s book based on a durational performance project — is forthcoming from UDP in 2015. He is the founder of Collective Task, a collective of over 30 international artists and writers who complete monthly “tasks” assigned by its members. He teaches writing and poetry at New York University and at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Josef Kaplan is the author of All Nightmare: Introductions, 2011-2012 (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014), Kill List (Cars Are Real, 2013), and Democracy Is Not for the People (Truck Books, 2012). His recent work has appeared in Lana Turner, Rethinking Marxism, The Claudius App, and the Poetic Labor Project. He lives in Queens. more info here