417. Upcoming readings in NY, Chicago & beyond (if you want to see me nervous, unappealing, & happy)
February 24th, 2012 § 5 Comments
Hi warblers and ramblers, if you’re in NYC this week and have some kind of desire to spend your time wastefully, I am here to let you know that I will be reading TONIGHT from my forthcoming book of poetry at Goodbye, Blue Monday in Bushwick for the Stain of Poetry reading series, along with four other brilliant poets–Dan Magers, Lauren Hunter, Kendra Grant Malone, and Matthew Savoca–who also have new books coming out (or recently published.) It starts at 7pm and here is the Facebook event, if you like that kind of thing.
On Tuesday, my horrendous existence will be reading fiction about love, lust, and longing for the Fiction Addiction Reading Series in the East Village. The event is happening at 2A Bar, starts at 8pm and you can get to hear fiction from Edmund White, Patrick McGrath, Helen Phillips, and MOI. All the readers will have their magnificent faces projected onto a brick wall on Second Avenue, which is a nice perk for that brick wall, at least until my ugly mug appears. Here’s the Facebook link.
For those you who live in Chicago or plan to be there for AWP, I will have copies of my book, Dear Jenny, We Are all Find, hot off the press in my clammy, greedy hands. Octopus/Black Ocean/Letter Machine are hosting a night of poetry, hand puppetry, video, and music at the Hideout on Friday, March 2nd, 9pm. I’ll be reading from my book and trying to get my face to look relaxed. The real beauty will happen when Feng Sun Chen, Christopher DeWeese, Rebecca Farivar, Peter Gizzi, Thurston Moore, Andrea Rexilius, and Zachary Schomburg take the stage. There will be a DJ spinning your best jams until late into the night, and I will dance like a Peanuts character because I don’t know any other way.
I will also be doing a mini book tour down South with the inimitable Zach Schomburg and his posse of peaceful, righteous marauders. I will post details about that soon!
Sorry everyone for so much HUMBLE WAG in this post. I will try to keep this stuff to a minimum and write about real things next time. Hope to see you tonight, Tuesday, next Friday or any day in any place that we might be.
Love,
Jenny
Congrats Jenny!
I pre-ordered a copy of your book from Octopus Books; when in March does it get mailed out?
Hi! The books arrived on Friday, so hopefully you will get yours SOON! They are a modest team of few, which might mean slower delivery, but more LOVE. <3
So sorry I missed this–I Facebook spaced and didn’t realize it was yesterday. Duh me. Hopefully you will be reading again in NYC at some point? Wishing you the best on the book tour!
I think I will be having more readings in NYC! I will announce it for sure. Thank you for the sweet words. <3
Can you lay off the self deprecating shtick. Enough already.