PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW READING SERIES TIME OF 3:00 - 5:00 PM

Featuring Austin Alexis and Sharon Mesmer

Hosted by David Lawton

Plus open mic

21+, doors open at 3:00 pm

$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non.

Austin Alexis is the author of two chapbooks from Poets Wear Prada: Lovers and Drag Queens (2007) and For Lincoln & Other Poems (2010), and one full-length collection: Privacy Issues (Broadside Lotus Press, 2014). His poetry, fiction, nonfiction and plays have appeared in Barrow Street, The Journal, Flash Boulevard, Hawaii Pacific Review, Connecticut River Review, Lips, The Ledge, J Journal, Home Planet News, the anthologies Rabbit Ears: TV Poems, NYC from the Inside, and in other journals and anthologies. He received First Prize in the Great Weather for Media Flash Fiction of the Month Contest, and his writing has placed in competitions sponsored by Kenyon Review, the Nassau County Poet Laureate Society, Writer's Digest, New Millennium Writings, and others. Austin has work forthcoming in American Book Review. He is a native New Yorker and has lived in the East Village for many years.

Sharon Mesmer is a poet, fiction writer, essayist and teacher. Her most recent poetry collection, Greetings From My Girlie Leisure Place (Bloof Books), was voted “Best of 2015” by Entropy magazine. Other collections are Annoying Diabetic Bitch, The Virgin Formica, Half Angel/Half Lunch, and Vertigo Seeks Affinities (chapbook, Belladonna Books). Four of her poems appear in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (second edition, 2013). She has also published three fiction collections, The Empty Quarter and In Ordinary Time (both from Hanging Loose Press) and Ma Vie à Yonago, from Hachette in French translation. Her essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine/The Cut, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Purple, Commonweal, and the Brooklyn Rail, among others. Her awards include a Jerome Foundation mentoring award and two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships. She teaches at New York University and The New School and lives in Brooklyn.
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