May 18 Rachel Levitksy

Leslie Flint Presents is a reading series that showcases the work of one author. Rachel Levitsky has been called upon to deliver to us her work.

She will present collaborative work she's done with Christian Hawkey, Susan Bee, Simone Kearney, & Ariel Goldberg.

A presentation you don't want to miss!

Sunday, May 18, 5:30 pm

Rachel Levitsky's hybrid poetries and prose utilize politics, humor and abstraction to map the structural reality of everyday life. She is also playing with, and pushing the limits of, extending the possible form of the English language sentence. In 1999, Rachel started Belladonna Series in order to investigate and promote feminist avant-garde poetics. Belladonna Series is now Belladonna* Collaborative and Rachel is a participating member. At Pratt Institute, Rachel is faculty in the new MFA in Writing/Activism. In 2010, along with Christian Hawkey, she opened the Office of Recuperative Strategies (oors.net). Her recent books are NEIGHBOR (UDP),The Story of My Accident is Ours (Futurepoem) and the chapbook Renoemos (Delete).

Hosted by Joseph Bradshaw

April 11 Jen Currin, Rachel Levitsky, Steven Karl, Ekoko Omadeke

What happens when you cross Vancouver with Miami and Brooklyn?

Four terrific poets that's what!

Come one come all to hear Jen Currin, Rachel Levitsky, Steven Karl, and Ekoko Omadeke!

April 11, 7 pm

About the Poets:

Jen Currin has published four books of poetry: The Sleep of Four Cities (2005), Hagiography (2008), and The Inquisition Yours (2010), which was a finalist for three awards and won the Audre Lorde Poetry Award for Lesbian Poetry, and most recently, just out from Coach House, School (2014). She lives in Vancouver, BC and teaches writing and literature at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and for Vancouver Community College.

Steven Karl is the author of Dork Swagger (Coconut Books, 2012). His chapbooks and collaborative chapbooks have been published by Peptic Robot Press (with Joseph Lappie), H_NGM_N, Flying Guillotine Press, and Lame House Press (with Angela Veronica Wong). Recent non-fiction can be found in The First Time I Heard My Bloody Valentine. He is an editor for Coldfront Magazine and Sink Review and lives in Miami, Florida.

Rachel Levitsky's hybrid poetries and prose utilize politics, humor and abstraction to map the structural reality of everyday life. She is also playing with, and pushing the limits of, extending the possible form of the English language sentence. In 1999, Rachel started Belladonna Series in order to investigate and promote feminist avant-garde poetics. Belladonna Series is now Belladonna* Collaborative and Rachel is a participating member. At Pratt Institute, Rachel is faculty in the new MFA in Writing/Activism. In 2010, along with Christian Hawkey, she opened the Office of Recuperative Strategies (oors.net). Her recent books are NEIGHBOR (UDP),The Story of My Accident is Ours (Futurepoem) and the chapbook Renoemos (Delete).

Ekoko Pauline Omadeke has been published in No Dear Magazine and Ars Poetica. She received her MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from New York University. She is the founder of the Southern Writers Reading Series and a Cave Canem Fellow. Ekoko is also an assistant poetry editor for Phantom Limb Press. She lives and writes in Brooklyn.