[New York, NY]

A celebration of The Final Nite by Steve Dalachinsky
March 6, 2025, 7:00 pm
at The Francis Kite Club

Join us for a celebration of the second edition of The Final Nite & Other Poems, Complete Notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook 1987-2006 by poet and collagist Steve Dalachinsky (1946–2019), whom Amiri Baraka called “a poet of the real world.”

The book chronicles nearly two decades of verse written while listening to live performances by the musician Charles Gayle. UDP will celebrate this second edition and its new introduction by Yuko Otomo with a choral reading of The Final Nite by Ugly Duckling Presse collaborators, old and new. Readers will include Yuko Otomo, Anna Moschovakis, Jeffrey Nelson, Micheal Ruby, Filip Marinovich, Linda Trimbath, Madeline R Braun, and more.

Doors open at 7:00 pm, reading starts at 7:30 pm. Free entrance.