“COUPLET”
A Poetry and Music Series at The Delancey, LES.

Facebook invite.

Join us for a poetry reading at 8pm and stay for the after-party: “Oscillate Wildly”.

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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. 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. ASHLEY MABBITT studied poetry with Ruth Stone and Liz Rosenberg at SUNY Binghamton. Since moving to the city, she has attended workshops and classes at the NY Publicy Library, 92nd St Y and Poets House, and has her poems included in several chapbooks. She works in publishing and has been able to travel to East Asia, Europe and South America. Ashley is delighted to be reading for Couplet.

2. LIZ AXELROD is a graduate student at The New School. She was Managing Editor of two award-winning editions of 12th Street, the New School’s undergraduate literary journal; Editor-in-Chief of www.12thstreetonline.com, and is now a Poetry Reader for LIT Magazine. Liz has been making the rounds of the NYC Poetry Circuit for close to a decade and has been both reader and judge at the Bowery College Poetry Slam, a featured poet at the Yippie Museum’s Monday Night Poet’s Café, The Phoenix Reading Series, The Cornelia Street Graduate Series, The Southern Writer’s Series, Smalls Jazz Poetry Series, The Lolita Bar, The Renegade Reading Series and The Living Room’s Stories & Songs Residency. Her work has been published in the Cat Oars Fiction Collective, 12th Street, Lyre Lyre, The Rumpus, The Brooklyn Rail, and Electric Literature. She is currently working on her first collection of poems tentatively titled Nowhere Tongue.

3. AMY KING is the author of, most recently, I Want to Make You Safe (Litmus Press). She is currently preparing a book of interviews with the poet Ron Padgett, co-edits Esque Magazine and the PEN Poetry Series with Ana Bozicevic, and teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. Readings, reviews and more at amyking.org

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THE DELANCEY: 168 Delancey Street (between Clinton & Attorney)
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Reading at 8 P.M. • After-party 10 P.M.+
21 & up • No cover
New York City

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