Underland Gallery Reading Series: Fall 2023 #2
New York Writers Workshop @ Underland Gallery Reading Series
Fall 2023 #2 -- Thursday, October 19, 2023 / 6:00 PM
Paula Bomer is the author of the novels Tante Eva and Nine Months, and the story collection, Inside Madeleine and Baby, the latter Jonathan Franzen calling, "some of the rawest and most urgent writing I can remember encountering." Her work has appeared in Bomb, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Cut, The Literary Review, Volume 1 Brooklyn and elsewhere. She's a regular contributor to Full Stop Magazine and her forthcoming novel, The Stalker, is coming out in 2025. She grew up in South Bend, Indiana and has lived in Brooklyn for over 30 years.
Dr. Michael Datcher did his undergraduate work at UC Berkeley, his Masters at UCLA and his Ph.D. at UC Riverside in English Literature. Datcher is the author of the Ferguson-area historical novel Americus, the critically-acclaimed New York Times Bestseller Raising Fences, the children's book Harlem at Four, and the Pulitzer Prize nominee Animating Black and Brown Liberation: A Theory of American Literatures. Datcher's work often interrogates the intersection of knowledge production and social justice. Datcher is a Clinical Associate Professor of Writing at NYU.
Neva Kares Talladen is the author of the poetry chapbook, New Grace: Juvenalia, launched in July 2023. Born and raised in the Philippines, she wrote poetry and first-person pieces in English, becoming a fellow of the Baguio National Writers Workshop facilitated by the University of the Philippines. Her work was published in several literary journals and magazines, including Likhaan Journal and in the book Eros Pinoy edited by Alfred “Krip” Yuson and published by Anvil Publishing. She was also included in the digital anthology of the First Annual Festival of Women’s Poetry in November 2008 for Wompo Publishers Newspaper, edited by Virginia’s former poet laureate, Luisa Igloria. In 2020, she founded her book editing service, Otherwordy Literary, in Rockaway Beach, NYC, working with publishers like Wiley, Row House Publishing, and Spirit Bound Press. She is also the community manager of the Talking Writing literary podcast.
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, early in 2024, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.
DATE: Thursday, Oct 19, 2023
TIME: Doors 6:00 PM, Reading 6:30 PM, followed by Q&A and reception until 8:00 (refreshments provided)
PLACE: Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209 (sidewalk level, no stairs)
Directions
Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209, btw 4th Ave and 5th Ave (ground level). Take the R Train to 77th St. & 4th Ave. Brooklyn, head east ⅔ of a block from station.