MAY 23: Poetry Double-Header
Join us Saturday at 5 pm at Fergies Pub (upstairs) for a reading by Brenda Iijima and Yedda Morrison.
Afterwards we’ll walk a few blocks to the Chapterhouse Cafe for the Chapter and Verse reading series featuring Frank Sherlock and Simon Pettet.
Brenda Iijima is the author of Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press) and Around Sea (O Books). Forthcoming works include revv. you’ll—ution (Displace Press) and If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press). She writes about animal-ability. She lives in Brooklyn and runs Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.
Montreal based writer and visual artist Yedda Morrison was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her books include Darkness (chapter 1) (Little Red Leaves, 2009) (PDF available here), Girl Scout Nation (Displaced Press, 2008), My Pocket Park (Dusie Press, 2007), Co (Collaborations with Bruce Andrews, Roof Books, 2006) and Crop (Kelsey Street Press, 2003). How Flora Became An Ornament is forthcoming from Make Now Press in Los Angeles. Morrison has exhibited her visual work throughout the US and Canada and is currently represented by Republic Gallery in Vancouver, BC.
Frank Sherlock is a native Philadelphian, author of Over Here and Ready-To-Eat Individual, a collaboration written with Brett Evans about New Orleans in the Year 1 A.K. (After Katrina). You can listen to his work at PennSound.
Simon Pettet is a poet from New York. HEARTH, a book that collects his decades’ worth of poetry, was recently published. You can read an interview with Pettet in last month’s Brooklyn Rail.
