“COUPLET”—A Poetry and Music Series at The Delancey, LES. Quarterly.
Winter 2014 Edition: Saturday, January 4, 2014.

Hosted by poet Leah Umansky, Couplet is a quarterly reading series held on the Lower East Side featuring both emerging and established poets. Every event features music & after-party by DJ Ceremony.

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This edition’s featured poets:

1. ROSEBUD BEN-ONI
Rosebud Ben-Oni is a 2013 CantoMundo Fellow. A Leopold Schepp Scholar at New York University, she won the Seth Barkas Prize for Best Short Story and The Thomas Wolfe/Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Best Poetry Collection. She was a Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan where she earned her MFA in Poetry, and was a Horace Goldsmith Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her work appears in Arts & Letters, Bayou, B O D Y, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Lana Turner Journal and Puerto del Sol; recently her short story A Way out of the Colonia won the Editor’s Prize for Best Short Story in Camera Obscura: A Journal of Contemporary Literature and Photography. She is a graduate of the 2010 Women’s Work Lab at New Perspectives Theater. Her debut book of poems SOLECISM was published by Virtual Artists Collective in March 2013. Rosebud is a co-editor for HER KIND at VIDA: Women in Literary Arts (vidaweb.org). Find out more at Rosebudbenoni.com.

2. LEOPOLDINE CORE
Leopoldine Core was born and raised in Manhattan. Her poems and fiction have appeared in Apology, Open City, The Literarian, Drunken Boat, Sadie Magazine, Harp & Altar, The Brooklyn Rail, and No, Dear, among others. She is a 2012 Fellow at The Center for Fiction and at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her chapbook Young Friend was just published by Perfect Lovers Press and her first full-length book is forthcoming from Coconut Books.

3. KATHY OSSIP
Kathleen Ossip is the author of The Cold War, which was one of Publishers Weekly’s best books of 2011; The Search Engine, which was selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize; and Cinephrastics, a chapbook of movie poems. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Washington Post, The Believer, A Public Space, and Poetry Review (London). She teaches at The New School in New York and online for The Poetry School of London. She was a founding editor of LIT and is the poetry editor of Women’s Studies Quarterly. She has received a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

4. DEREK POLLARD
Derek Pollard is co-author with Derek Henderson of the book Inconsequentia (BlazeVOX). His poems, creative non-fiction, and reviews appear inAmerican Book Review, Colorado Review, Court Green, Diagram III, H_ngm_n, Pleiades, and Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak, among numerous other anthologies and journals. He is Assistant Editor at Barrow Street Press; a Black Mountain Institute Fellow at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and is on faculty at the Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse, New York.

5. BIANCA STONE
Bianca Stone grew up in Vermont, and graduated from NYU’s MFA Creative Writing Program. She is the author of Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Tin House/Octopus Books, 2014), several poetry and poetry comic chapbooks, and is also the illustrator of Antigonick, (a collaboration with Anne Carson). Her poems have appeared in magazines such asAmerican Poetry Review, Tin House, andCrazyhorse. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Your Hostess:
Leah Umansky’s first book of poems, Domestic Uncertainties, is out now by BlazeVOX. She is a contributing writer for BOMB Magazine’s BOMBLOG and Tin House, a poetry reviewer for The Rumpus and a live twit for Best American Poetry. She also hosts and curates the COUPLET Reading Series in NYC. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Thrush Poetry Journal, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Paterson Literary Review. “Don Dreams and I Dream,” her Mad Men-inspired chapbook is forthcoming in 2014 by Kattywompus Press. Find more of her work at: www.iammyownheroine.wordpress.com/

Your DJ:
DJ Ceremony has played at well over 100 venues in and around 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, among other special one-night-only themed events. His sound often culls from Postpunk, Glam Rock, Indie, Haçienda, Britpop, Factory Records, Shoegaze, Manchester, Dreampop, & British Invasion. www.djceremony.com

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“COUPLET”—A Poetry & Music Series
Winter 2014 Edition
Hosted by poet Leah Umansky with music by DJ Ceremony
Saturday, January 4, 2014, 7 to 10 PM
Venue: The Delancey, Lower live performance level
168 Delancey Street (Between Clinton & Attorney)
Lower East Side, NYC
#CoupletNYC

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