“COUPLET” : A Poetry and Music Series : January 12 @ The Delancey, LES
“COUPLET”
A Poetry and Music Series.
Join us for a poetry reading at 8pm and stay for the after-party! Reading at 8 P.M. After-party 9 P.M.+
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Your Hostess:
Leah Umansky is a New Yorker by birth, a teacher by choice, and an anglophile at heart. She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and is a recipient of a 1-week fellowship at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony. She is a contributing writer for both BOMB Magazine’s BOMBLOG and for The Rumpus. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: Barrow Street, Cream City Review, Women’s Studies Quarterly, The Paterson Literary Review, Magma Poetry (UK),and Harpur Palate. She is also a contributing writer for The Rumpus and BOMB Magazine ‘s BOMBLOG. Find more of her work at: http://www.iammyownheroine.wordpress.com/
Your DJ:
DJ Ceremony has been playing in New York City since 2001, at both public & private events. He is the producer & DJ of “Oscillate Wildly”, a monthly Smiths & Morrissey tribute dance party in the Lower East Side, and the upcoming “Corruption At Tammany Hall : A Neo-burlesque Spectacle On The Lower East Side”. His sound often culls from Postpunk, Glam Rock, 80s, Northern Songs, Indie, Britpop, Analog Retro, Shoegaze, Manchester, Soul, Minneapolis Sound, Dreampop, & British Invasion.
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This edition’s featured poets:
1. Joanna Fuhrman is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Pageant (Alice James Books 2009) and Moraine (Hanging Loose Press 2006). In 2011, Least Weasel Press published her chapbook The Emotive Function. She teaches poetry in the wilds of NJ and in NYC public schools.
For more info visit her at: Joannafuhrman.com
2. Rick Snyder is the author of Escape from Combray (Ugly Duckling, 2009). His chapbooks include Paper Poem (Dusie, 2006), Flown Season (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2004), and Forecast Memorial (Duration, 2002). His poems, essays, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Aufgabe, Boog City, jubilat, Jacket, Paperbag, and other journals. He currently teaches Latin and classical studies at the University of Rochester.
3. Hanna Andrews is the co-founder and co-editor of the feminist poetry press Switchback Books. She is an editor at the Academy of American Poets, where she edits the journal American Poet. Her first book, Slope Move, is forthcoming in 2012 from Coconut Books. She lives in Brooklyn.
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THE DELANCEY: 168 Delancey Street (between Clinton & Attorney)
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Reading at 8 P.M. • After-party 9 P.M.+
21 & up • No cover
New York City
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