Sommer Browning, Noah Eli Gordon & Fred Moten: Sunday Oct 20, 4pm

 

Fred Moten, Sommer Browning and Noah Eli Gordon read Sunday afternoon at the Poetic Research Bureau at 951 Chung King Rd in Chinatown.

Doors open, 3:30pm.

Reading @ 4pm.

Fred Moten works at the intersection of black studies, performance studies, poetry, and critical theory. He is author of Arkansas (Pressed Wafer Press, 2000), In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), I ran from it but was still in it. (Cusp Press, 2007), Hughson’s Tavern (Leon Works, 2008), B Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2010), and The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions, 2013).

Sommer Browning writes jokes, makes comics and does poetry. She's the author of Either Way I’m Celebrating (Birds, LLC, 2011) and a collection of drawings and one-liners, The Presidents (and Other Jokes) (Future Tense, 2013). With Tony Mancus, she founded the handmade poetry chapbook press, Flying Guillotine, and with Julia Cohen she curates The Bad Shadow Affair, a monthly reading series. She works as a librarian in Denver and lives with the poet Noah Eli Gordon and their baby, Georgia.

Noah Eli Gordon is the author of eight books, including The Year of the Rooster (Ahsahta Press, 2013), The Source (Futurepoem, 2011), and Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial, 2007), which was selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series and subsequently chosen for the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award. Gordon is the co-publisher of Letter Machine Editions, an editor with The Volta, and an Assistant Professor in the MFA program in Creative Writing at The University of Colorado–Boulder, where he currently directs Subito Press.