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Mission Creek Festival: Sabrina Orah Mark, Visual Poetry Synthesizer Reading with Stephanie Burt & Brandon Alexander Williams promotional image
Mission Creek Festival: Sabrina Orah Mark, Visual Poetry Synthesizer Reading with Stephanie Burt & Brandon Alexander Williams
Saturday, April 6, 2019 4:00pm

Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of the poetry collections The Babies and Tsim Tsum. Wild Milk is her first book of fiction. She lives in Athens, Georgia with her husband, Reginald McKnight, and their two sons.

About the Book:

Wild Milk is like Borscht Belt meets Leonora Carrington; it’s like Donald Barthelme meets Pony Head; it’s like the Brothers Grimm meet Beckett in his swim trunks at the beach. In other words, this remarkable collection of stories is unlike anything else you’ve read.

“Th...

Mission Creek Festival: Lit Walk Round #2,  Readings hosted by Monsters of Poetry/Rescue Press, Ninth Letter/MAKE Magazine, The Rumpus/Lit Hub promotional image
Mission Creek Festival: Lit Walk Round #2, Readings hosted by Monsters of Poetry/Rescue Press, Ninth Letter/MAKE Magazine, The Rumpus/Lit Hub
Friday, April 5, 2019 6:00pm
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ROUND #2

Hosted by Rescue Press & Monsters of Poetry
@White Rabbit (112 S. Linn St.)
Marc Rahe, Lauren Haldeman, Brandon Taylor, Abraham Smith, Kathleen Maris Paltrineri, Kam Hilliard, & Kristin Lueke

Hosted by Make Magazine & Ninth Letter
@RSVP (140 N. Linn St.)
Anne Yoder, Kyle Beachy, Andre Perry, Susan Steinberg, Jane Huffman, Max Neely-Cohen, & Ari Braverman

Hosted by Lit Hub & The Rumpus
@Revival (117 E. College St.)
Jennifer S. Cheng, Mesha Maren, Carl Napolitano, Alexia Arthurs...

Live from Prairie Lights: Kevin Young in conversation with Tameka Cage Conley promotional image
Live from Prairie Lights: Kevin Young in conversation with Tameka Cage Conley
Thursday, April 4, 2019 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

New Yorker poetry editor Kevin Young will read from and talk about his work, in conversation with Tameka Cage Conley. The New York Times wrote “Keeping up with [Kevin Young] is like trying to keep up with Bob Dylan or Prince in their primes.”

Kevin Young is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, most recently Brown, a New York Times Notable Book. His collection Jelly Roll: a blues was a finalist for both the...

Kevin Young promotional image
Kevin Young
Thursday, April 4, 2019 5:00pm
Dey House

Please join us for a Q & A session with Kevin Young in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 4

Kevin Young is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He is the New Yorker poetry editor and author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, most recently Brown, a New York Times Notable Book. His collection Jelly Roll: a blues was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Young’s nonfiction, Bunk: The Rise of...