It’s homecoming season, so our September reading will showcase an amazing line-up of writers reading on the theme of homecoming. Please come spend time with Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, Alice Sola Kim, Merritt K., Morgan Jerkins, Maya Binyam, Alli Simone Defeo, Sade Murphy, and Chaya Babu as they welcome you back to Earth, then stick around to drink & dance & enjoy some music selections from your pal Jeremiah.
Tonight at 8pm
Readers:
alli simone defeo is a poet and visual artist. they are a co editor at glo worm press and their first full length poetry collection “i love you here’s a gigantic worm” is out now on 2 fast 2 house. they carry 25 rocks in their backpack. they love horses. allisimonedefeo.com
Morgan Jerkins is a Harlem-based writer and Contributing Editor at Catapult. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, ELLE, BuzzFeed, and many other places. Her debut essay collection, This Will Be My Undoing, is forthcoming from Harper Perennial. morgan-jerkins.com
Sade Murphy is “thirty, flirty and thriving”. They are a poet and artist in Bed-Stuy, and an MFA candidate at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Chaya Babu is a Brooklyn-based writer, journalist, educator, and organizer. She was a 2016 BuzzFeed Emerging Writers Fellow, a 2015 Open City Fellow with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and her work has appeared in The Margins, Racialicious, The Feminist Wire, The Wall Street Journal, India Abroad and more. She’s currently pursuing her MFA in writing at Pratt Institute and is working on a memoir about her time living in Mumbai.
Maya Binyam is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Inquiry, The Awl, The Hairpin, Real Life, and elsewhere.
Alice Sola Kim is a left-handed anchor baby living in New York. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, The Village Voice, McSweeney’s Literary Quarterly, BuzzFeed Books, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. She has received grants and scholarships from the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Elizabeth George Foundation. alicesolakim.com
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, and PEN American. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, and The New York Times. His first full length collection, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, is out now from Button Poetry. He is a columnist at MTV News, where he writes about music, and fights to get Room Raiders back on the air.abdurraqib.com
merritt k is a writer and podcaster. Her first book, Videogames for Humans, is an exploration of contemporary interactive fiction and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Anthology. She hosts the podcasts Woodland Secrets and dadfeelings, and can be found on Twitter at @merrittk. merrittk.com
Hosts:
Roshan Abraham is a writer who tweets at @roshantone
Jeremiah (AfroBalearic Brothers) plays leftfield disco and danceable curiosities ig-@appliance
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