Hyperallergic May 3

Join Berl's in welcoming the first ever Hyperallergic Poetry Reading! 
Saturday, May 3rd, from 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM. Refreshments will be served.
The inaugural readers are Joanna Fuhrman, Dan Magers, Debora Kuan, & Ana Božičević. The readers will be introduced by Hyperallergic poetry editor Joe Pan, organizing the event.

Books by the authors will be available for purchase.

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Joanna Fuhrman is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Pageant (2009) and Moraine (2006), as well as the chapbook The Emotive Function (2011). She teaches poetry writing at Rutgers, in her apartment and sometimes at public schools through T&W.

Dan Magers’ first book of poems, Partyknife, (Birds, LLC, 2012) was described by Thurston Moore “as if poet-ghost adrift thru dressing rooms backstage taking notes…Writing poems like these is just as good as starting a band.” Magers is a collaborator with the artist Matt Bollinger, most recently on his solo show Bed on the Floor at Zürcher Studio, New York in 2013. Magers is the founder of the online poetry journal Sink Review and the handmade chapbook press Immaculate Disciples Press, which focuses on poetry book and artist collaborations. He lives in Brooklyn. Twitter: @partyknife.

Debora Kuan received her B.A. from Princeton University and MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her debut collection of poetry, XING, was published by Saturnalia Books. She is the recipient of a Fulbright creative writing fellowship (Taiwan), University of Iowa Graduate Merit Fellowship, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship. Her short fiction has appeared in Brooklyn Rail, Opium, Rumpus, The Iowa Review, and Wigleaf, and in 2010, she won L Magazine’s Literary Upstart award. She has written about contemporary art and film for Artforum, Art in America, Modern Painters, Paper Monument, and other publications. She has taught at University of Iowa, The College of New Jersey, and New York Institute of Technology, and is also a senior editor at Brooklyn Arts Press.

Ana Božičević, born in Croatia in 1977, is the author of Stars of the Night Commute (2009) and Rise in the Fall, a Publishers Weekly’s top five in poetry for 2013. She is the recipient of the PEN American Center/NYSCA grant for translating It Was Easy to Set the Snow on Fire by Zvonko Karanović. With Sophia Le Fraga, she performs and creates multimedia work as not_I.