[New York, NY]

Julian T. Brolaski, CAConrad, & Kimberly Lyons
August 25, 2011, 7:00 pm
at 443 PAS

Please join 443PAS for a reading by the poets Julian T. Brolaski, CAConrad, & Kimberly Lyons, in conjunction with the exhibition Laurel Sparks: Against Nature. Julian T. Brolaski is the author of gowanus atropolis (UDP 2011) and the chapbooks Hellish Death Monsters (Spooky Press 2001),  Letters to Hank Williams (True West Press 2003), The Daily Usonian (Atticus/Finch 2004), Madame Bovary’s Diary (Cy Press 2005) and A Buck in a Corridor (flynpyntar 2008). Brolaski's second full length book, Advice for Lovers, is forthcoming from City Lights in Spring 2012.  Brolaski lives in Brooklyn where xe is an editor at Litmus Press, curates vaudeville shows and plays country music. CAConrad is the author of the forthcoming book, A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books, 2011), and most recently, The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010/Chax Press, 2009). He is also the author of Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), (Soma)tic Midge (Faux Press, 2008), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). The son of white trash asphyxiation, his childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. Kimberly Lyons is the author of several books of poetry, most recently: Phototherapique (Ketalanche Press/Portable Press, 2008). A new collection of poems, Rouge, is forthcoming from Instance Press. Recent poems have appeared in New American Writing, Peepshowpoetryblogspot, Peaches and Bats, the Recluse, and Talisman magazine. She had poems and an essay on the work of Bernadette Mayer in a recent issue of Aufgabe and she wrote profiles on a number of poets in the Encyclopedia of New York School Poets (Facts on File). She is a socialworker at the Brooklyn Women’s Shelter and was once the program coordinator at the Poetry Project.