Please join Black Sun for the launch of Steven Seidenberg’s Situ, with readings by the author, Anna Moschovakis, Lou Pam Dick & Christian Hawkey.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Shoestring Studio
640 Classon Ave, Brooklyn
7 PM
STEVEN SEIDENBERG is the author of Situ (Black Sun Lit, 2018), Null Set (Spooky Actions Books, 2015), Itch (Raw Art Press, 2014), and numerous chapbooks of verse and aphorism. His collection of photographs, Pipevalve: Berlin, was released by Lodima Press in 2017. He has had solo shows of his visual work in various galleries in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. He is co-editor of the literary journal pallaksch.pallaksch. (Instance Press) and curates the False Starts reading series at The Lab in San Francisco.
ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS is the author of the novel Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love, forthcoming in August 2018 from Coffee House Press. Her most recent book of poetry is They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This (Coffee House Press, 2016). Her translations from the French include Albert Cossery’s The Jokers (NYRB Classics, 2010), Annie Ernaux’s The Possession (Seven Stories Press, 2008), and Bresson on Bresson (New York Review Books, 2016). She is a longtime member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse and a co-founder of Bushel, an art and community space in Delhi, NY.
LOU PAM DICK (aka Moina/Misha/Gregoire/Mina Pam Dick et al.) is the author of this is the fugitive (Essay Press, 2016), Metaphysical Licks (BookThug, 2014), and Delinquent (Futurepoem, 2009). With Oana Avasilichioaei, she is the co-translator of Suzanne Leblanc’s The Thought House of Philippa (BookThug, 2015). Her writing has appeared in BOMB, Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, Vestiges, and elsewhere, as well as in the anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (ed. TC Tolbert and Trace Peterson, Nightboat Books, 2013). Also a visual artist and deinstitutionalized philosopher, she lives in New York City.
CHRISTIAN HAWKEY has written two full-length poetry collections: The Book of Funnels (Wave Books, 2004) and Citizen Of (Wave Books, 2007); four chapbooks: Hour Hour (Delirium Press, 2005), Petitions for an Alien Relative (Hand Held Editions, 2009), Ulf (Factory Hollow Press, 2010), and Sonette mit Elizabethanischem Maulwurf (hochroth verlag, 2010); and the cross-genre book Ventrakl (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). Sonne from Ort, a collaborative bilingual erasure made with the German poet Uljana Wolf, appeared in 2013 (kookbooks verlag, Berlin). In 2006 he received a Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award. In 2008 he was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellow. He translates contemporary German poetry, as well as the late short prose of the Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger, and his own work has been translated into over a dozen languages. He is an officer of the Office of Recuperative Strategies.
Complimentary refreshments. Books by each reader for sale. All welcome.
Event image: Steven Seidenberg, Wallscape