[Brooklyn, NY]

Reading with Sam Truitt and Yuko Otomo
November 14, 2019, 7:30 pm
at Unnameable Books

Readings by UDP authors Yuko Otomo and Sam Truitt, with Sousan Hammad and Tomer Inbar. With live music by Ghost Shepherds. All performances are free and will take place in the white-rock stone garden or, according to the whims of weather (and more likely), in the comfortable book-lined basement.

Arrive at 7:30 to hang out, with performances beginning at 8.

Yuko Otomo is a visual artist & a bilingual poet/writer of Japanese origin. She writes poetry; haiku; art criticism; travelogues & essays. Her publications include Anonymous Landscape, Garden: Selected Haiku (Beehive Press), Genesis (Sisyphus Press), Small Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Hand of The Poet (UDP), STUDY & Other Poems on Art (UDP), Elements (Feral Press), KOAN (New Feral Press) & FROZEN HEATWAVE: a poetry collaboration project with Steve Dalachinksy (Luna Bisonte Prods). She lives in New York City.

Sam Truitt is the author of the ten books in the Vertical Elegies series including most recently Heresway, Dick: A Vertical Elegy, Vertical Elegies 6: Street Mete. Vertical Elegies: Three Works and Vertical Elegies 5: The Section (Georgia, 2003). Recent work may be found at Black Sun Lit: Episodes from OMAR. A host of the podcast Baffling Combustions,  he is director of Station Hill Press and lives in Woodstock.

Sousan Hammad has lived in the United States, Palestine and France. Her essays and poetry translations have appeared in numerous magazines including Guernica, Electronic Intifadah and al-Araby al-Jadeed. She is a contributing writer to Al Jazeera America.  Here’s a link to her A Map of Jerusalem.

Born in Jerusalem and raised in Brooklyn, Tomer Inbar studied writing at Binghamton University and has an MA in Classical Japanese Literature from Cornell University and law degrees from New York University. He is the author of In the World Enormous. Inbar founded and edited Camellia, an experimental literary journal (1989-97), and has published translations of Saibara, a genre of Japanese folk song formalized in the Heian period. Inbar currently is an attorney at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, representing charities and other nonprofit organizations, and lives in Park Slope.