Uptown/Downtown: A Reading
Helena Zhang and Brynn Saito
Let the summer begin! Join us for an evening of readings by ten emerging writers. Five poets from New York University and five from Sarah Lawrence College share their work in a dynamic bridging of two creative communities.
Poets featured include Brynn Saito, M. Rebekah Otto, Ivanna Yi, Brandon C. Dumont, Diana Alvarez, Allyson Paty, Beth Onusko, Carson Donnelly, R. Perry Ivey, and Helena Zhang.
Upcoming Events
May 6 7:00 PM
Alice Sparkly Kat
4 Sessions, Thursdays, May 5/6-5/27, 7 PM ET Sliding Scale $100-$200 Register here! Tapping into the political power of magic and astrology for social, community, and personal transformation, Alice Sparkly Kat’s cross-cultural approach to astrology as a magical language unmasks the political power of astrology, showing how it can be...
May 11 7:00 PM
Ishle Yi Park and Willie Perdomo
RSVP HERE! Ishle Yi Park, the first woman poet laureate of Queens, joins the Asian American Writers’ Workshop to celebrate the launch of Angel & Hannah, a novel of dynamic free verse. The book follows Hannah, a Korean American girl from Queens, and Angel, a Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn,...
May 12 7:00 PM
Larissa Pham, R. O. Kwon
RSVP HERE! This May, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop will join Larissa Pham in celebrating her nonfiction debut, Pop Song. Finding inspiration in contemporary art, pop culture, and poetry – from Agnes Martin to Anne Carson – Pop Song is by turns intimate, vulnerable, and inventive, crafting a “perfectly fractured...