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. 

September 26 Leslie Flint Presents John Godfrey

Leslie Flint invites you to join us at Berl's Poetry Shop for a reading with downtown legend John Godfrey, who will present two sets of poetry spanning the course of his 40+ year career.

Thursday, September 26, 7 pm

John Godfrey is the author of a dozen poetry collections, most recently Private Lemonade (Adventures in Poetry, 2003), City of Corners (Wave Books, 2008), and Tiny Gold Dress (Lunar Chandelier, 2013). After a 17 year nursing career specializing in pediatric and maternal HIV/AIDS, he retired in 2011. He has lived for 40 years in what once was known as "the poets’ building" on 12th St. in the East Village. This fall Godfrey will lead a workshop called Shifting Degrees at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's. 

This is the inaugural reading for Leslie Flint Presents, a monthly reading series organized by Joseph Bradshaw, co-manager of the afterlife of Leslie Flint.