Slapering Hol Press authors read in Bryant Park.

Page Hill Starzinger

Regan Good

Tyler Mills

Amy Lemmon

Featured poets:

Mara Bergman

Suzanne Cleary

Amy Lemmon

Open mic sign up before the event.

Amy Lemmon reads from her latest book, The Miracles (C&R Press, 2019) with special guests TBA.

Curator: Marta López Luaces

A reading of poems in English and Spanish.

JoAnne McFarland is a poet, painter, and curator from Brooklyn. She is the former Exhibitions Director of A.I.R. Gallery and the founder of Artpoetica, a project space in Gowanus Brooklyn that links literary and visual expression. Her latest poetry collection, Identifying the Body, was published in 2018 by The Word Works. Her artwork is part of many public and private collections, including the Library of Congress and the Columbus Museum of Art. In her practice McFarland treats violence and creativity as diametrically opposed: each act of making thwarts violence’s aim to destroy.

Amy Lemmon is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Miracles (C&R Press, 2019). Her poems and essays have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Court Green, The Journal, Marginalia, and many other magazines and anthologies. Amy is Professor and Chairperson of English and Communication Studies at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, where she teaches writing and creativity studies classes, and co-editor (with Sarah Freligh) of The CDC Poetry Project.

Almudena Vidorreta (Spain, 1986) is the author of Tintación (2007), Algunos hombres insaciables (awarded by the Poetry Prize “Delegación del Gobierno en Aragón”, 2009), Lengua de mapa (XXII Poetry Prize “Universidad de Zaragoza”, 2010), Días animales (2013) and Nueva York sin querer (La Bella Varsovia, 2017). She is Vissiting Assistant Professor at Haverford College. In 2014, she earned her PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) with a dissertation on Early Modern Poetry. She is currently working on a second PhD in Latin American Literature at the City University of New York, where she teaches since 2013.

Amy Lemmon is the author of three poetry collections: Fine Motor (Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2009), and The Miracles (C&R Press, 2019), and co-author, with Denise Duhamel, of the chapbooks ABBA: The Poems (Coconut Books, 2010) and Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation (Slapering Hol Press, 2011). Her writing has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Rolling Stone, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Court Green, The Journal, Marginalia, and many other magazines and anthologies. She is Professor and Chairperson of English and Communication Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY and lives in New York City.

Amy Lemmon and Angela Alaimo O’Donnell read their poems. Open mic follows.

OWU Alumni Amy Lemmon and Marwa Helal will read from their work, answer questions, and sign copies of their books.

Amy Lemmon is the author of three poetry collections: Fine Motor, Saint Nobody , and The Miracles (C&R Press, 2019) and co-author, with Denise Duhamel, of the chapbooks ABBA: The Poems (Coconut Books) and Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation (Slapering Hol Press). Her writing has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Rolling Stone, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Court Green, The Journal, Marginalia, and many other magazines and anthologies. She is Professor and Chairperson of English and Communication Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY and lives in New York City, where she is primary caregiver and advocate for her developmentally disabled daughter.

Poet and journalist Marwa Helal is the author of I AM MADE TO LEAVE I AM MADE TO RETURN (No, Dear/Small Anchor Press, 2017) and Invasive species (Nightboat Books, 2019). Helal is the winner of BOMB Magazine’s Biennial 2016 Poetry Contest and has been awarded fellowships from Poets House, Brooklyn Poets, and Cave Canem. She has presented her work at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Studio Museum in Harlem and Brooklyn Museum.

Her work appears in Apogee, Hyperallergic, the Offing, Poets & Writers, the Recluse, Winter Tangerine, Bettering American Poetry 2016, Best American Experimental Writing 2018, Brooklyn Poets Anthology, Halal If You Hear Me, and BreakBeat Poets: Black Girl Magic. She is the editor of the Poetry Project’s newsletter.

Born in Al Mansurah, Egypt, Helal received her MFA in creative nonfiction from The New School and her BA in journalism and international studies from Ohio Wesleyan University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY, the 92nd Street Y, and other organizations.

Amy Lemmon reads from and signs copies of her latest poetry collection, The Miracles (C&R Press, 2019). A Q&A discussion will follow the reading.

C&R Press holds our signature Spontaneous Reading Party with Full Bar at Concrete + Water in #Brooklyn. Free and open to the public. Talk with authors between sporadic readings, get a book and a drink (non-alcoholic beverages available), try complimentary chocolate snuff by The Chocolate Line. Live forever.

Authors
Winter Soup Bowl Chapbook selection author
Gabriel Israel Green reads from The Magical Negro Reveals His Secret
Leland Cheuk reads from the No Good Very Bad Asian
Chris Campanioni reads from the internet is for real
Amanda Auerbach reads from What Need Have We for Such as We
Robert Glick reads from Two Californias
Kelli Colyer-Christian reads from Banjo's Inside Coyote
Amy Lemmon reads from The Miracles
Jacob Paul reads from Last Tower to Heaven

Women as World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism by Floyd Dell (1913)

It will not do to pluck freedom like a flower and give it to the lady with a polite bow. She must fight for it.– From the book, 1913

WITH:
Debra Castellano (CitizenDeb.com / Waste Management: The Show)

Katie Kay Chelena(The Infinite Wrench)

Lady Von Tramp(Flighty Spirit)

Amy Lemmon (The Miracles) & Marielena Andre (Taktile Design Studio)

Pearl Rhein (The Bushwick Book Club / Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812)

Moses Rubin and Sarah Rubinstein (Rubin & Rubinstein) with Hudson Cooke 

Hosted by Queen of the Apes, Ayun Halliday (No Touch Monkey! / East Village Inky)

Open mic with featured readings by poets Amy Lemmon and Julie Choffel.

C&R Press and Mastodon authors read from their recent books. Book sales, full bar, non-alcoholic beverages.

Sleepy Hollow Lit Fest is a celebration of the art of writing and will showcase multiple areas of interest that connect deeply with this historic region – specifically mystery, horror, children’s/YA lit, nonfiction/historical, and literature/poetry. 2019 marks the 200th Anniversary of the writing of Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, a seminal work which touches on all four of our areas of interest. In addition, the festival strives to showcase the diversity of our community by featuring a wide array of voices and writers.

Guillermo Filice Castro
Amy Lemmon
Joel Lewis

National Poetry Month: Poets Are the Best
With your hostess, Kathleen Warnock

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Innovation in Sustainability Conference

Fashion Institute of Technology

“The Sustainability Council at FIT hosts a Sustainable Business and Design Conference each spring. The event provides a platform for collaboration and discussion throughout the creative industries, highlighting advances in sustainable design and thought leadership. Environmental and social challenges and potential solutions are explored through innovative student projects, cross-institutional research, and industry partnerships. In recent years, breakout sessions have included topics such as farm-to-fashion, textile development, sustainable fashion supply chain, mindfulness in design, and packaging materials and recycling. The wide-ranging program features keynote speakers, panels, and projects that delve into pressing issues and exciting developments in the industry.

This year’s Sustainable Business and Design Conference theme is Innovating for the Future. It offers branding and speaking opportunities, as well as brand logo placement on conference marketing collateral.”

C123, Oregon Convetion Center, Level 1

Slapering Hol Press Conversation Chapbooks (Jennifer Franklin, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon , Amy Lemmon, Kim Addonizio, Brittany Perham)

Join Slapering Hol Press poets and editors as they discuss the importance of mentorship, particularly women mentoring women, in small press publishing. For the past thirty years, the editors of SHP have been dedicated to publishing chapbooks written by talented emerging poets. This panel focuses on the Conversation chapbook series in which an established woman poet choses an emerging woman poet with whom to collaborate on a unified series of poems and a written conversation about craft.

As part of Association of Writers and Writing Program (AWP) Conference
Portland, Oregon

AWP Exhibit Space 8092
Oregon Convention Center

As part of Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference
Portland, Oregon

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Cody D. Todd Memorial Stage, Sponsored by USC,
Exhibit Hall, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1

As part of Association of Writers and Writing Program (AWP) Conference
Portland, Oregon

Rusty Nail Pizza and Pub
600 NW Naito Pkwy, Portland, Oregon 97209

As part of Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference
Portland, Oregon

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