ZINC BAR READING SERIES:
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POETRY, RUIN MY LIFE:
THE POETICS OF TROUBLE

Reading by the Advanced Troublemakers of Brendan Lorber's Poetry Project Workshop

Filip Marinovich, Olivia Grayson, Leslie McIntosh, Anthony Alves, Melissa Warnke, Emily Blair, Daniel Owen, Barry Denny, Ryan Nowlin, Georgia Faust & others

WANT MORE TROUBLE?

NYU MFA READING

Kristin Maffei, Matt Broaddus, David McLoghlin, Cat Richardson, Gino Franco Figlio, Peter Longofono

NO READING/SUPERBOWL

MARIETTE LAMSON

Mariette Lamson writes kind poetry that will lick you if you let it.

ALINA GREGORIAN

Alina Gregorian's poems have been published in Boston Review, GlitterPony, H_NGM_N, and other journals. She edits the collaboration journal Bridge.

BRIAN JOHNSTONE

Brian Johnstone is a Scottish poet whose poems 'evoke...a sense of spiritual immanence in their slow still spaces' (Scottish Literary Journal) while being 'full of stilled moments and nicely shaped incidents' (Scotland on Sunday). His work has appeared throughout the UK, in America and in various European countries. His latest collection is The Book of Belongings (Arc, 2009). His poems have been translated into more than 10 different languages and in 2009 Terra Incognita, a small collection of his poems in Italian translation, was published by L’Officina (Vicenza). A founder and former Festival Director of StAnza: Scotland’s International Poetry Festival Brian Johnstone has appeared at numerous international poetry festivals from Macedonia to Nicaragua and at major venues across the UK.

EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY

Eugene Ostashevsky is a Russian-American poet and pundit. His books of poetry include Iterature and The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza, both published by Ugly Duckling Presse.

ULJANA WOLF

The German poet and translator Uljana Wolf lives in Berlin and Brooklyn. Her poems appeared New European Poetry (Graywolf, 2008), Dichten No. 10: 16 New German Poets (Burning Deck, 2008), jubilat, Chicago Review, and Harper’s Magazine. She published two books of poetry in German, and she translates American poetry into German. English translations of her work have appeared in the chapbooks My Cadastre, trans. by Nathaniel Otting (Nor By Press 2009); false friends, trans. by Susan Bernofsky (UDP 2011); Aliens: An Island, trans. by Monika Zobel (Belladonna* 2011). Uljana's photo © Katja Zimermann

LAURA HENRIKSEN

Laura Henriksen lives in Brooklyn, where she works to promote urban sustainability. She represents the East Coast-based half of the literary zine Water Science’s editorial team. Her work has previously appeared in Trainwreck and is forthcoming from the Brooklyn Rail.

MATVEI YANKELEVICH

Matvei Yankelevich is the author of Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books), and the translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Ardis/Overlook). A new collection of poems, Alpha Donut, will be released this spring by United Artists Books. He is a member of the writing faculty at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and one of the the founding editors of Ugly Duckling Presse, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit publishing collective.

BRETT PRICE

Brett Price lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. He currently serves as the Friday Late Night Series Coordinator at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. Recent work has been published or is forthcoming in LUNGFULL!, Brawling Pigeon, Bright Pink Mosquito, Sink Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and Well Greased.

NICOLE WALLACE

Nicole Wallace is the Program Assistant at The Poetry Project and co-edits BRAWLING PIGEON, which appears occasionally.

RELEASE PARTY FOR BRAWLING PIGEON

Edited by Edmund Berrigan and Jess Fiorini

Jess Fiorini, Filip Marinovich, Mariana Ruiz-Firmat and others

AMY LAWLESS

Amy Lawless is the author of Noctis Licentia (Black Maze Books, 2008) and Elephants in Mourning ([sic] Press, 2012). Her poems have recently been published or are forthcoming in H_NGM_N, Forklift, Ohio, and Sink Review. She was named a 2011 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and lives in Brooklyn.