May 17 COLLATERAL LIGHT Book Launch

Yours to Destroy: A Reading

We will storm you from the inside!
Come celebrate Julia Cohen's COLLATERAL LIGHT published by Brooklyn Arts Press.
With readings by Danielle Pafunda, Julia Cohen, Monica McClure, Niina Pollari, and a short film by Bo McGuire 


Saturday, May 17th @ 7pm

March 22 YOU'RE GOING TO MISS ME WHEN YOU'RE BORED

Come one come all! The new best book is here! And you can hold it in your hands.

Welcome to the world YOU'RE GOING TO MISS ME WHEN YOU'RE BORED by Justin Marks. 

Featuring readings by
Justin Marks
Niina Polari
Angela Veronica Wong
and a Berl's staff member.

March 22, 2014

7 pm

Berl's Poetry Shop

About the readers:

Justin Marks’ books are, You’re Going to Miss Me When You’re Bored (Barrelhouse Books, 2014), and A Million in Prizes (New Issues, 2009). His latest chapbooks are We Used to Have Parties (Dikembe Press, 2014) and Best Practices (Greying Ghost, 2013). He is a co-founder of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press, and lives in Queens, NY with his wife and their twin son and daughter.

Niina Pollari wrote two chapbooks, Fabulous Essential and Book Four. She also translated The Warmth of the Taxidermied Animal by Tytti Heikkinen (Action Books 2013). Her first book Dead Horse will be out from Birds LLC in 2014. She also coordinates Popsickle Festival, yells in a band called mindtroll, and works for the internet.

Angela Veronica Wong is the author of how to survive a hotel fire (Coconut Books 2012).

The Self Unstable Book Party December 14th

You are about to have interesting thoughts.

December 14, 2013
Come celebrate the release of Elisa Gabbert's THE SELF UNSTABLE
just out from Black Ocean.

7 pm
Berl's Poetry Shop
126A Front Street

Featuring a reading by the author as well as special readings by:
Jennifer Olsen
Becca Klaver
Niina Pollari
Cassandra Gillig

About the book:
Elisa Gabbert’s The Self Unstable combines elements of memoir, philosophy, and aphorism to explore and trouble our ideas of the self, memory, happiness, aesthetics, love, and sex. With a sense of humor and an ability to find glimmers of the absurd in the profound, she uses the lyric essay like a koan to provoke the reader’s reflection—unsettling the role of truth and interrogating the “I” in both literary and daily life: “The future isn’t anywhere, so we can never get there. We can only disappear.”

About Elisa Gabbert:
Elisa Gabbert is the author of The Self Unstable (Black Ocean) and The French Exit (Birds, LLC), as well as a recent collaborative chapbook co-written with Kathleen Rooney, The Kind of Beauty That Has Nowhere to Go (Hyacinth Girl Press). Her poems and prose have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Another Chicago Magazine, Boston Review, Court Green, Hobart, Phoebe, The Toast, The Volta and other journals. She lives in Denver and blogs at The French Exit. Follow her on Twitter at @egabbert.