April 9 David Abel Will Destroy You in a Pleasure

Come hear the works of fellow bookseller David Abel!

April 9, 7 pm

Leslie Flint Presents is a reading series at Berl's that features one reader who presents his or her work for a healthy amount of time. Hosted by Joseph Bradshaw.

About the presenter:

David Abel is an editor and teacher in Portland, Oregon, and the proprietor of Passages Bookshop and The Text Garage. He is the publisher (with Sam Lohmann) of the Airfoil chapbook series, and edits and produces the free broadsie series Envelope. A founding member of the Spare Room reading series and the collaboration collective 13 Hats, he is also a Research Fellow of the Center for Art + Environment of the Nevada Museum of Art. His recent publications include FLOAT (Chax Press, 2012), Tether (Bare Bone Books, 2011), and BLACK VALENTINE (Chax Press, 2006)

Leslie Flint Presents Christian Hawkey

November 21, 7PM

Berl's Poetry Shop

126A Front Ave., Brooklyn

CHRISTIAN HAWKEY has written two full-length poetry collections, four chapbooks, and the cross-genre book Ventrakl (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). A new book, Sonne from Ort, a bi-lingual collaborative erasure made with the German poet Uljana Wolf, has just been published (kookbooks Verlag, Berlin, 2013). In 2006 he received a Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award. In 2008 he was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellow. He translates contemporary German poetry, and with the German poet Uljana Wolf he translates the Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger. With Rachel Levitsky he started the collaborative OoRS. His own work has been translated into over a dozen languages. He lives in Berlin and Brooklyn.

Leslie Flint Presents is a monthly reading series organized by Joseph Bradshaw. The next installment of the series will be January 30, 2014.