Hi all, as I mentioned, in case anyone is interested, I’m doing a short reading on Thursday. The event is a celebration of a new novel by Rachel Levitsky, so I’ll read a little of my own work and a little of her work. Here’s the info:
QUEER DIVISION III: The Story of My Accident is Ours
Thursday, March 21, @ 7:30PM
@ The Bureau of General Services–Queer Division
Strange Loop Gallery, 27 Orchard Street, between Canal and Hester
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Besides her first novel, brand spanking newly out from Futurepoem , and called The Story of My Accident is Ours, Rachel Levitsky is the author of two previous books called poetry, Under the Sun (Futurepoem, 2003) NEIGHBOR (UDP, 2009). She is the founder of the feminist avant-garde network, Belladonna* Collaborative. In 2010 with Christian Hawkey, she started The Office of Recuperative Strategies (OoRS.net), a mobile research unit variously located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Boulder, Brooklyn, Cambridge, NYC and the Universität Leipzig in Leipzig. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Pratt Institute.
erica kaufman is the author of censory impulse (Factory School 2009) as well as several chapbooks. her most recent project is called INSTANT CLASSIC. she lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Baruch College and the Institute for Writing & Thinking at Bard College.
Michelle Betters is a poet living in Brooklyn. She’s a student at Pratt Institute where she curates Ubiquitous, the literary and arts magazine. Since moving here from Georgia in 2010, she’s been involved in various projects with OWS, the Office of Recuperative Strategies, and Jennifer Miller’s Circus Amok. Her most recent project was a chapbook entitled OCD the Vampire Slayer, which Joss Whedon has yet to respond to despite the
multiple copies she’s sent to him.
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The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is a queer bookstore and event space hosted by Strange Loop Gallery on the Lower East Side of New York City from November 15, 2012 through March 31, 2013. We aim to foster a community invested in the values of mindfulness, intellectual curiosity, justice, compassion, and playfulness. The Bureau seeks to excite and educate a self-confident, sex-positive, and supportive queer community by offering books, publications, and art and by hosting reading groups, authors’ talks, and performances. We provide local and visiting queers and friends with an open and inclusive space for dialogue and socializing. The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division welcomes you.
