Red Sofa Reading Series featuring Ross Gay, Rosebud Ben-Oni, and Ailish Hop...
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Join us as we welcome three incredible poets to the Red Sofa Reading Series: Ross Gay, Rosebud Ben-Oni, and Ailish Hopper. Hosted by Hila Ratzabi. Followed by dance party with DJ Easy Reader!
Thank you to our sponsor 2nd Story Brewing, which will be providing beer for the event!
Ross Gay is the author of Against Which (CavanKerry Press, 2006) and Bringing the Shovel Down (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, MARGIE, Ploughshares and many other magazines. He has also, with the artist Kimberly Thomas, collaborated on several artists' books: The Cold Loop, BRN2HNT and The Bullet. He is an editor with the chapbook press Q Avenue. Ross Gay received his M.F.A. in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and his Ph.D. in American Literature from Temple University. He teaches in the creative writing program at Indiana University.
Born to a Mexican mother and Jewish father, Rosebud Ben-Oni is a recipient of the 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a CantoMundo Fellow. She was a Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan, and a Horace Goldsmith Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of SOLECISM (Virtual Artists Collective, 2013) and an Editorial Advisor for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts (vidaweb.org). Her work is forthcoming or appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Arts & Letters, Bayou, Puerto del Sol, among others. Find out more about her at 7TrainLove.org.
Ailish Hopper is the author of Dark~Sky Society (2014), selected by David St. John as runner up for the New Issues prize, and the chapbook Bird in the Head (2005), selected by Jean Valentine for the Center for Book Arts Prize. Individual poems have appeared in Agni, APR, Blackbird, Harvard Review Online, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tidal Basin Review, and other places. She is currently at work on an essay that imagines the world after the reign of white supremacy, and the difficulties of imagining possibility. She has received support from the Baltimore Commission for the Arts and Humanities, the MacDowell Colony, Maryland State Arts Council, and Yaddo, and teaches at Goucher College and in the visual art MFA program at University of Maryland Baltimore County.
CONTACT: Hila Ratzabi
redsofasalon@gmail.com
Organizer Hila Ratzabi
Organizer of Red Sofa Reading Series featuring Ross Gay, Rosebud Ben-Oni, and Ailish Hopper
I launched the Red Sofa Reading Series in October 2013 with the intention of creating a venue for sharing some of the best contemporary poetry and to help poets reach a wider audience in Philadelphia. I view the Red Sofa Reading Series as an extension of my living room. Have a glass of wine and a snack, mingle with old and new friends, and sit back and listen to some poetry. The reading series takes place at Indy Hall, a coworking space that has become a second home to me. Indy Hall is a community of inspiring self-starters who love to work together, so it was the logical choice for a space to start a reading series. I invite you to take a seat at the next Red Sofa Reading and find a home in poetry.
The Red Sofa Reading Series takes place roughly four times per year: twice in the fall and twice in the spring. All events are a partnership with Indy Hall Arts, a dynamic group of artists and creative folks who put on art exhibits, music events, and now poetry readings. Events are open to the public.
