Independent's Day--early!

Writers Published by Groundbreaking Independent Presses

Presented by
The New York Center for Independent Publishing
The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
20 W 44th Street
New York, NY 10036

Wednesday, June 18, 6:30 PM

HANGING LOOSE PRESS, supporting poetry since 1966, has evolved from a magazine of loose sheets into one of the country's most significant publishing houses. The press publishes fiction as well as poetry, and is dedicated to finding new writers and distinctive voices. Poets and writers, TONY TOWLE (Winter Journey), SHARON MESMER (The Virgin Formica), STEVEN SCHRADER (What We Deserved), and DONNA BROOK (A More Human Face) will read from their work and join editor/poet ROBERT HERSHON (Calls from the Outside World) to discuss the past, present and future of the press.

EARSHOT!

*Friday, June 13
8 PM*
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg
Featuring:
Tony O'Neill (Digging the Vein)
Erik Rhey (fiction & nonfiction)
... and from the MFA scene ...
Todd Sullivan (Queens College)
Steven Cherry (The New School)
Fox Henry Frasier (Columbia U.)

$5 admission
includes one free drink
(beer, wine or well drinks only)!
The Lucky Cat is located at 245 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Driggs and Roebling.
Visit their website for directions: http://www.theluckycat.com.

OUTDOOR READING!

Bryant Park Reading Room
Tuesday June 10 6:30-8:00 PM
Mark Doty
Timothy Donnelly and Idra Novey

The new Triptych Readings is honored to be hosting one of the Word for Word poetry events. Mark Doty will read from his much-anticipated new and selected poems, Fire to Fire; with him, Timothy Donnelly, author of Twenty-Seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit, and the Poetry Editor of the Boston Review; and Idra Novey, award-winning translator of poetry and author of The Next Country, forthcoming from Alice James Books.

Bryant Park's Reading Room is in Bryant Park near the 42nd Street side, between 5th and 6th Avenues, just behind the NY Public Library's Research Branch. Look for the umbrellas and the podium. ... Because this is an outdoor reading, please make a note of the rain location: General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen, 20 W. 44th St.