OPEN ALTAR: Living Room Day of the Dead Open House
November 2nd 3pm — 8pm
Living room festival for Day of the Dead
We will open our space to celebrate their work and our LIVING FLAMES fed by it.
Come partake in Bibliomantic readings of the poetry and work of dear community such as ALICE NOTLEY, LYN HEJINIAN, RICHARD FORMAN, STEPHANE BOUQUET, FANNY HOWE, EDMUND WHITE, KENWARD ELMSLIE, COLE HEINOWITZ, MEL NICHOLS and anyone you know and love!
We celebrate life and love and the importance of art, music, books, creativity and play together as we celebrate with community musicians, priests and priestesses, Tony Torn, Lee Ann Brown, Beth Beth, Lucia Hinojosa Gaxiola, Diego Girard, Zoe Brezsny, Sarah Riggs, Lyndsay Turner, Ricardo Gallo of Los ALiENs, Franklin Bruno, Jennifer Scappettone, Paolo Javier, Drew Gardner, Hilma's Ghost and other surprise guests plus YOU!
To stoke the fires we will concurrently have a triple BOOK PARTY for these very special COMMUNITY COLLECTIONS!
JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE’s ten years in the making:
Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism (Columbia University Press, 2025) with new critical work on Etel Adnan, and Lyn Hejinian and others.
PAOLO JAVIER'S: new book NEAR YOUR MIRROR HOME (STAY ON) from (POETS OF QUEENS)
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/near-your-mirror-home-paolo-javier/1146315514?ean=9798990473324
and DREW GARDNER'S anthology, INGENIOUS PLEASURES: An Anthology of Punk, Trash & Camp (University of New Mexico Press)
https://www.unmpress.com/9780826364944/ingenious-pleasures/
Thank you for community weaving
We can’t do this without you!
With gratitude, Lee Ann Brown (TenderButtonsPress.com) & Tony Torn (Torn Page.com)
Donations for operating expenses Greatly Appreciated:
PayPal to [email protected]
Questions:
Lee Ann Brown at [email protected]
