Get Your Anti-Zombie Booster Shot!
A poetry reading (& launch) with
Benjamin Gantcher (The Coronation of Ghosts)
Maggie Dubris (Brokedown Palace)
Brendan Lorber (If This Is Paradise Whay Are We Still Driving?)
Jeffrey Joe Nelson (Postcards from the Hive)
Benjamin Gantcher is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the recipient of a LABA fellowship as well as residencies from the UCross Foundation and the Omi International Arts Center. He is the author of the poetry collection Snow Farmer (2017), a finalist in several contests, and the poetry chapbook Strings of Math and Custom (2013). Gantcher's first poetry manuscript, If a Lettuce, earned finalist honors in the National Poetry Series and Bright Hill Press contests. His poems and essays have appeared in many journals, including Tin House, Slate, Rhino, Guernica, The Brooklyn Rail, and DIAGRAM. Gantcher was Poet of the Week at Brooklyn Poets and is a former poetry editor of failbetter. He is the editor, publisher and designer of unbound books, "free, downloadable, printable, foldable, downright handsome books," that can be found @benjamingantcher, at the unbound books Substack, and at https: //gantcher.wordpress.com/unbound-books/.
Maggie Dubris is a writer and sound artist based in New York City. She worked for 25 years as a 911 paramedic in the Times Square/Hell’s Kitchen area, and much of her work draws on that experience. She has also worked as a professional hypnotist, a martial arts health care specialist for Kids Kicking Cancer, and a paramedic on film and TV sets. Maggie is the author of The Favored Child of the Sub-Mariner, (Weed Mines Press, 2023), BrokeDown Palace (Subpress, November 2019), In The Dust Zone (with artist Scott Gillis), Skels, Weep Not, My Wanton, and WillieWorld. Her work has been featured in David Gordon’s America and Mabou Mines’ Song For New York, and she has published in numerous literary magazines.
Brendan Lorber is the author of If This Is Paradise Why Are We Still Driving? and several chapbooks, most recently Unfixed Elegy and Other Poems. His work appears in the American Poetry Review, Big Other, Fence, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. Since 1995, he has published and edited Lungfull! Magazine, an annual anthology of contemporary literature. He lives atop the tallest hill in Brooklyn, New York, in a little castle across the street from a five-hundred-acre necropolis.
Jeffrey Joe Nelson lives & works in Brooklyn. He has been curating the Greetings Readings Performance Series at Unnameable Books before it was deemed unnameable. His, "Road Of A Thousand Wonders," is available from Ugly Duckling Presse.