Alexandra Egan chapbook launch
with Anna Gurton-Wachter & Mirene Arsanios

Hosted by Anna Moschovakis

Please join us for a night of poetry as Alexandra Egan celebrates the launch of her chapbook Daughter of Filth, Mother of Crumb. Also reading will be the fabulous Mirene Arsanios and Anna Gurton-Wachter in a night hosted by Anna Moschovakis.

Alexandra Egan is a poet, designer, activist, editor, scavenger, an expert in trash, a perpetual party host, and a mother. These are not in order of importance. She lives with her daughter in Bed-Stuy and is currently an Emerge-Surface_Be fellow at The Poetry Project.

Mirene Arsanios is the author of the short story collection The City Outside the Sentance, Notes on Mother Tounges, and THe Autobiography of a Language. She lives in Brooklyn and is currently the program director at The Poetry Project.

Anna Gurton-Wachter is a writer and archivist. She is the author of Utopia Pipe Dream Memory (ugly duckling presse) as well as eight chapbooks, most recently Lucy (belladonna*). Check out www.annagw.com for more.

Anna Moschovakis is a poet and translator whose most recent novel is Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth. Other books include the novels Participation and Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love, and poetry books They, We Will Get Into Trouble for This and You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has also translated Albert Cossery’s The Jokers, Annie Ernaux’s The Possession, and various others. She is a member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and co-founder of Bushel Collective, an experimental mixed-use storefront space in Delhi, NY.