Claire Moed reads from A Poem Called Home, the last book in the trilogy Wire Monkey. Thirty years after leaving the ancestral seat on Broome and Columbia, Bets returns home to keep her mother, The Cellist company while age, illness and dementia ravages what's left of heart and soul.
Jan Clausen will be reading from Makeshift Memorial, a hybrid work in progress. Incorporating poetry and poetic prose, the text addresses themes of personal, historical, and environmental loss, searching out improvised forms for feelings too large and ragged to be contained inside conventional structures.
There will also be an open mike - sign-up at 7 pm. Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word. 8-minute limit.
New York City, NY; NYC