I’ll be out of town, but if I wasn’t going to be, I’d be going to this event at Poets House:
Friday, April 16, 7:00pm
Texts to Argue Through: A Conversation with John D’Agata, Thalia Field & Jena Osman
Essayist John D’Agata, cross-genre writer Thalia Field and experimental poet Jena Osman trace how research-based projects can evolve into book-length lyric essays and serial poems.
$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members
John Madera's fiction may be found in Conjunctions, Opium Magazine, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His criticism may be found in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.
Makes me, again, wish I was located in New York.