[Quincy Lehr]

Join us on May 3 at

Otto's Shrunken Head
538 E 14th St, New York, New York 10009

3 PM for a reading by Linda Stern, Don Zirilli, and Carina del Valle Schorske

Linda Stern has published poems in Big City Lit, Kin Poetry Journal, The New Criterion, Promethean, and The Raintown Review among other publications and has poems forthcoming in American Arts Quarterly and Songs for a Passbook Torch, an anthology. Her first collection, Why We Go by Twos, was published in March 2015 by Barefoot Muse Press. She co-published the poetry magazine Endymion and, more recently, was associate editor of the online poetry journal Umbrella.

Don Zirilli is a healthcare IT manager. He lives in a pastoral corner of New Jersey with Colleen, Sophie, Darcy, Moe, Fred and Knuckles. His poetry has been published in River Styx, Art Times, Anti-, iota, Specs, the annual Red Wheelbarrow anthology, the Beyond the Rift anthology and other publications. He's the former art editor of the Shit Creek Review and current editor of Now Culture.

Carina del Valle Schorske is a poet, translator, editor, and essayist living in New York City. She was the MacDowell Colony's 2013-2014 Isabella Gardner Fellow in poetry and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Boston Review, The Awl, The Acentos Review and No Tokens Journal. She is a doctoral candidate in the department of Comparative Literature & Society at Columbia University where she studies psychoanalysis and race. Find her @fluentmundo on Twitter or in her one true home on Facebook.

[Rick Mullin]

I will be south of the venue reading with John J. Trause. It is a drag, but a gig is a gig, and the crick also rises. Especially bummed to miss Don, who's a real American transcendental. Given a choice, I would pick this one--even though Trause should be better known in these parts as well.

Best to all.

RM

[Ann Drysdale]

Rick - does that mean there'll be no video?

I wish I could be there to hear Don, too.

[R. Nemo Hill]

I'll be on the road again, as usual.

Nemo

[Quincy Lehr]

It is the time of year for snarly scheduling conflicts. Also, while I'll announce it more formally after this reading goes by, on May 24, we'll host Alicia Stallings, Sam Gwynn, Janice Soderling, and Claudia Gary in a quadruple whammy of a season finale. Buh-buh-buh BANG!

[Rick Mullin]

Ann, I rarely do videos any more. Hours of work and I can't stand looking at them.

But if I did have the recorder humming it will be at the Parkside Lounge, 317 E. Houston Street, NYC where I will be featuring with John J. Trause at the Great Weather for Media weekly event. It is a different thing from Carmine Street. Much more "Spoken Word", as they call it. Few "form poems" as they call them. Tomorrow they will get "form poems".

It will be a nice change of pace, actually, though John and I are pissed about missing our good friend Don Zirilli, a fellow Jerseyan and member of the Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow poets.