Help us celebrate the end of another great year and the launch of our December+January double issue with poetry and hangs.

Readings from John Godfrey, Jen Fisher, Ama Birch, Mónica de la Torre, Ben Keating, David Mills, and Filip Marinovic, hosted by Anselm Berrigan.

Stick around afterwards for refreshments and mingling.

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Anselm Berrigan is the author of many books of poetry: Something for Everybody, (Wave Books, 2018), Come In Alone (Wave Books, May 2016), Primitive State (Edge, 2015), Notes from Irrelevance (Wave Books, 2011), Free Cell (City Lights Books, 2009), Some Notes on My Programming (Edge, 2006), Zero Star Hotel (Edge, 2002), and Integrity and Dramatic Life (Edge, 1999). He is also the editor of What is Poetry? (Just Kidding, I Know You Know): Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter (1983–2009) and co-author of two collaborative books: Loading, with visual artist Jonathan Allen (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013), and Skasers, with poet John Coletti (Flowers & Cream, 2012). His chapbooks include Pregrets (Vagabond Press, 2014), and Sure Shot (Overpass, 2013). He is the current poetry editor for the Brooklyn Rail, and co-editor with Alice Notley and Edmund Berrigan of The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2005) and the Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2011). A member of the subpress publishing collective, he has published Selected Poems of Steve Carey (2009) and Your Ancient See Through by Hoa Nguyen (2002). From 2003-2007 he was Artistic Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, where he also hosted the Wednesday Night Reading Series for four years. He is Co-Chair, Writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts interdisciplinary MFA program, and also teaches part-time at Brooklyn College. He was awarded a 2015 Process Space Residency by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and in 2014 he was awarded a Robert Rauschenberg Residency by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. He was a New York State Foundation for the Arts fellow in Poetry for 2007, and has received three grants from the Fund for Poetry. He lives in New York City, where he also grew up.

Ama Birch has been published by by Apricity Press, dObally, Live Mag!, Fellswoop, Autonomedia, A Gathering of the Tribes, Vail/Vale, Les Figues Press, Ali Liebegott, Vitrine, Insert Blanc Press, CalArts Creative Writing Program, and the State University of New York. She is the author of three books: Ferguson Interview Project, Sonnet Boom!, and Faces in the Clouds. She lives and works in New York City.

Mónica de la Torre is a Mexico City-born poet, scholar, and translator. Her books of poetry in English include The Happy End/All Welcome (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016), Public Domain (Roof Books, 2008), and Talk Shows (Switchback Books, 2007). De la Torre coedited the collection Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2002) with Michael Wiegers, and Appendices, Illustrations, & Notes (Smart Art Press, 2000) with artist Terence Gower. She edited and translated Poems by Gerardo Deniz, Lila Zemborain’s Mauve Sea-Orchids (2007, co-translated with Rosa Alcalá) and has translated numerous other Spanish-language poets. She has served as the Poetry Editor for the Brooklyn Rail and the Senior Editor of BOMB Magazine. De la Torre lives in Brooklyn.

John Godfrey has lived in the East Village since the '60s. Of his some dozen collections, those in the current century are Push the Mule, Private Lemonade, City of Corners, Tiny Gold Dress, Singles and Fives, Gold Stars Wet Hearts, and Knee-length Black. His most recent book is The City Keeps: New and selected poems 1966-2014 (Wave Books, 2016).

Jen Fisher was born in Florida in 1981. She currently runs the book stand, VorteXity books, in the East Village and her poetry, essays, and reviews appear in Dead Horse Bay (2013–present), Xilitla (2019), and Vietnam (2020). She currently lives in Queens. (K.P to J.F.)—“somebody took you. but they told me they gonna give you back soon…”

Ben Keating is a Brooklyn-born and based artist and poet. His sculptures were the subject of a solo show at Tripoli Gallery (2017) and have been exhibited at Pace Gallery and Mana Contemporary. Keating's poems have appeared in the . Brooklyn Rail.

David Mills is the author of two books The Dream Detective and The Sudden Country, a Main Street Rag book-prize finalist. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Arts Link, Henry James Fellowship, Breadloaf, Washington College, Chicago State's Hughes/Knight Poetry Award, and a BRIO award. His poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Ploughshares, Jubilat, Fence, Vermont Literary Review, Callaloo, Transitions (Harvard University), Rattapallax, Hanging Loose, Aspeers, Prairie Review, Colorado Review, Black Renaissance Noire Obsidian, and the Brooklyn Rail. He has also had poems displayed at both the Venice Biennale and Germany's Documenta exhibition. Mills is the subject of a poetry documentary, has recorded his poetry on RCA Records, and had poems featured on ESPN. He lived in Langston Hughes’ landmark home, where he was inspired to create a 1-person dramatic show of Hughes’ work.

Filip Marinovich is the author of The Suitcase Tree (The Operating System, 2019) Wolfman Librarian (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015), And If You Don't Go Crazy I'll Meet You Here Tomorrow (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011), and Zero Readership (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008), He teaches the roving poetry seminar SHAKESPEARIAN MOTLEY COLLEGE at Torn Page Theater and various locations throughout the ten directions of New York City and the hard to see nearnesses of our purring cosmic locality. In the summer of 1994 he worked at the Law Library of Pfizer Headquarters in midtown Manhattan. In the fall of 2011 he worked at the People's Library at Occupy Wall Street.