@diggingthroughthefat Press is kicking off its inaugural event on Thursday, October 6, 2016 at The Living Gallery in Brooklyn, 7 - 10 PM.
Our art exhibition will include works by:
Cynthia Alvarez http://www.calvarezart.com/works/
Summer J. Hart http://www.summerjhart.com/
Charlotte Sims http://www.charlottesims.com/fine-art
We'll follow the exhibit with a poetry reading, where we'll introduce four of our favorite poets:
Roberto Carlos Garcia's chapbook amores gitano (gypsy loves) was published by Červená Barva Press in 2013. His poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Engagement, Public Pool, Stillwater Review, Gawker, Barrelhouse, Tuesday; An Art Project, The Acentos Review, Lunch Ticket, Bold As Love Magazine, Entropy, PLUCK!: The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, The Rumpus, 5 AM Magazine, Wilderness House, Connotation Press- An Online Artifact, Poets/Artists, Levure Litteraire, and others. He is the founder of Get Fresh Books, LLC, a cooperative press. His first full collection, Melancolía, is forthcoming from Červená Barva Press in 2016. A native New Yorker, Roberto holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation, and is an Instructor of English at Union County College. http://www.robertocarlosgarcia.com/
K.T. Billey’s debut collection Vulgar Mechanics is expected from Coach House Books in 2017 and being rendered into Spanish by poet Soledad Marambio, translator of Anne Carson’s “The Glass Essay.” Stormwarning, Billey’s translation of the third book of poems by Icelandic poet Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir, is forthcoming from Phoneme Media in 2017. Originally from rural Alberta, Canada, Billey won Vallum's 2015 Poetry Prize with “Girl Gives Birth To Thunder” and her “Self-Portrait, Skull & Ornament” was a finalist for Arc’s 2016 Poem of the Year. An Assistant Editor for Asymptote, her translations 'from Icelandic and Spanish have appeared or are forthcoming in The Harvard Review, Circumference, the Council for European Studies’ Europe Now, and Palabras Errantes. She also writes arts and culture essays. http://www.ktbilley.com/
Justin Petropoulos is the author of two collections of poetry, Eminent Domain (Marsh Hawk Press 2011), selected by Anne Waldman for the 2010 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and<legend> </legend> (Jaded Ibis Press 2013), a collaborative work with multimedia artist, Carla Gannis. He is the director of an after-school program for elementary age children.
Jenn McCreary’s most recent full-length collection, & now my feet are maps, is available from Dusie Press; sections were adapted, with the playwright Kathy Vinogradoff, for performances at Small Press Traffic’s Poets Theater in Oakland, the Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia, & Boog City in Brooklyn. Other works include The Dark Mouth of Living (Horse Less Press), :ab ovo: (Dusie Press), a doctrine of signatures (Singing Horse Press), & Odyssey & Oracle (Least Weasel Press). A 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts for poetry, she lives in Philadelphia with her family where she edits ixnay press. https://jennmccreary.wordpress.com/
This event is free and open to the public.