Please join Black Sun Lit for the launch of Róbert Gál’s Naked Thoughts, featuring a bilingual + interactive performance by the author and readings by Vestiges contributors Anna Gurton-Wachter, Nicola Masciandaro & Kyra Simone.
Sunday, October 20, 2019
Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop
141 Front St, Brooklyn
4 PM
Róbert Gál was born in 1968 in Bratislava, Slovakia, and, after a period of study and itinerancy in Trnava, Brno, New York, Jerusalem, and Berlin, currently resides in Prague. He is the author of several books of aphorisms, fiction, and philosophical fragments available in English translation, including Naked Thoughts (Black Sun Lit, 2019), Agnomia (Dalkey Archive Press, 2018), On Wing (Dalkey Archive Press, 2015), and Signs & Symptoms (Twisted Spoon Press, 2003).
Anna Gurton-Wachter is a writer, editor, and archivist. Her first full-length book, Utopia Pipe Dream Memory, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in December 2019, and her chapbooks include Spring Bomb (dancing girl press, 2019), Mother of All (above/ground press, 2018), The Abundance Chamber Works Alone (Essay Press, 2017), Blank Blank Blues (Horse Less Press, 2016), and CYRUS (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2014). Other work has appeared in Vestiges, 6×6, PELT, No, Dear, Elderly, and elsewhere. She edits and makes books with DoubleCross Press, a poetry micro-press publishing handmade letterpress chapbooks, and lives in Brooklyn, NY, a few blocks away from the home in which she was born.
Nicola Masciandaro is Professor of English at Brooklyn College, CUNY and a specialist in medieval literature. He is the editor of the journal Glossator (Open Humanities Press) and co-author of The Voice of the Hammer (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007), Dark Nights of the Universe (NAME, 2013), Sufficient Unto the Day (Schism, 2014), Floating Tomb (Mimesis, 2015), and SACER (Schism, 2017). His work has appeared in Vestiges, PLINTH, continent., gobbet, and elsewhere.
Kyra Simone is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Conjunctions, The Atlas Review, Black Clock, The Brooklyn Rail, Little Star, Prelude, Vestiges, and the Best American Experimental Writing anthology, among other journals. Originally from Los Angeles, she is a member of the editorial collective at Ugly Duckling Presse and works as an associate editor at Zone Books.
Event image: Viktor Kopasz, Deadlock