Underland Gallery Reading Series: Fall 2023 #3
New York Writers Workshop @ Underland Gallery Reading Series
Fall 2023 #3 -- Thursday, Dec 7, 2023 / 6:00 PM
Beth Raymer is the author most recently of Fireworks Every Night (Random House), which AP News calls "a bittersweet celebration of the scrappy Americans who are finding a way to survive even as the elite push humans and animals alike out of their habitats." Lay the Favorite (Spiegel & Grau), a memoir about her years in Las Vegas and her work in the sports betting industry, Head of Household: A Journal for Single Moms (Princeton Architectural Press), and the forthcoming novel. She received an M.F.A. from Columbia University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship. Her journalism has been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times. She lives in New York City.
Omar Musa is a Bornean-Australian author, visual artist and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia. He has released four poetry books (including Killernova), four hip-hop records, and received a standing ovation at TEDx Sydney at the Sydney Opera House. His debut novel “Here Come the Dogs” was long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award and Miles Franklin Award and he was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year in 2015. His one-man play, “Since Ali Died”, won Best Cabaret Show at the Sydney Theatre Awards in 2018. He has had several solo exhibitions of his woodcut prints.
Ruth Danon’s fourth book of poetry, Turn Up the Heat, was published by Nirala Series in the summer of 2023. Her previous books are Word Has It (Nirala Series 2018), Limitless Tiny Boat (BlazeVOX, 2015), Triangulation from a Known Point (North Star Line, 1990), a chapbook, Living with the Fireman (Ziesing Brothers, 1980), and a book of literary criticism, Work in the English Novel (Croom-Helm, 1985), which was reissued by Routledge in 2021.
Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including Stronger than Fear: Poems of Compassion, Empowerment and Social Justice (Cave Moon Press, 2022), and is forthcoming in the Poetry is Bread Anthology (Nirala Publications, 2023.) Her work was selected by Robert Creeley for Best American Poetry, 2002, and has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Florida Review, Tupelo Quarterly, BOMB, the Paris Review, Fence, the Boston Review, and many other publications in the U.S. and abroad. She has been a fellow at the Ragdale Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Ora Lerman Foundation, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. For 23 years she taught in the creative and expository writing programs that she directed for The School of Professional Studies at New York University and was founding Director of their Summer Intensive Creative Writing Workshop. Those workshops ran from 1999 to 2016. She is the founder of LIVE WRITING: A Project for the Reading, Writing, and Performance of Poetry, which has been operating since 2018.
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, Dec 7, 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.