Please join Black Sun Lit for a poetry and sound performance featuring Ceremonial Abyss with Brenda Iijima, Katy Mongeau, Rachelle Rahmé, Jared Daniel Fagen & Chloe Bliss Snyder.
Sunday, July 16, 2023
Black Spring Books
672 Driggs Ave, Brooklyn
6:30 PM
$5 suggested donation
Ceremonial Abyss is the moniker of Brian Amsterdam, a sound designer and writer based in Portland, OR. His discography includes Tape Study for Four Variants, Death & Imagination, Continuity, Pensive Among Flowers, and others. His latest, 23, was released this month on Katabatik.
Brenda Iijima is a poet, novelist, playwright, choreographer, visual artist, and the author of nine books of poetry. Her involvements occur at the intersections and mutations of genre, mode, receptivity, and field of study. Her current work engages submerged and occluded histories, other-than-human modes of expression, and telluric awareness in all forms. A play, Daily Life in China, is forthcoming from elis press in 2023, a novel, Presence, is forthcoming from Georgia Review Press in 2024, and a collaborative chapbook, The Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing, written with Annie Won, is due out later this year. A novella, A roundtable, unanimous dreamers chime in, written in collaboration with Janice Lee, was just released by Meekling Press. Iijima is the founding editor and publisher of Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs. She lives in Brooklyn.
Katy Mongeau is a writer from Jacksonville, FL. She holds an MFA from Brown University and currently resides in New York. Her work has appeared in Fanzine, Threadcount, PLINTH, digital vestiges, Dark Fucking Wizard, and SELFFUCK. Her debut book of poems, Apostasy, was published by Black Sun Lit in 2020.
Rachelle Rahmé is a Lebanese-American poet and scholar. She is the author of Georges Bataille: 27 Poems on Death (o•blēk editions, 2021), Bataille’s Eggs (blush, 2020), and Count Thereof Upon the Other’s Limbs (72 Press, 2019). She holds a Masters in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research and is interested in negative dialectics, comparative archivism, and literary resistance movements. She is co-editor at blush and an MFA candidate in Literary Arts at Brown University.
Jared Daniel Fagen is the author of The Animal of Existence (Black Square Editions, 2022). His prose poems, essays, and conversations have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Lana Turner, and Asymptote, among other publications. He is the editor and publisher of Black Sun Lit, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, and an adjunct lecturer at the City College of New York. Born in Jeollanam-do, South Korea, he lives in Brooklyn and the western Catskills.
Chloe Bliss Snyder is an upstate poetess. She was co-editor of the late great Blazing Stadium, and her work has appeared there as well as in 24 Hour Store, New: The Journal of American Poetry, Nomaterialism, and Caesura. Her chapbook Ekho & Narkissos was published in The Swan pamphlet series and its recording may be heard on PennSound. Her first collection of poems, with illuminations by Irakli Qolbaia, is seeking arrangements for publication.
Books, merch, and refreshments will be available for sale. All welcome.