When: August 17, 2024
Where: 316 Ten Eyck St, Brooklyn, NY

Small Press Flea (SPF) is back—and at a new location. Join us at Amant’s campus for BOMB’s fair featuring your favorite local publishers and magazines.

BOMB’s Small Press Flea is a day celebrating independent publishers and the small press community.

Rain or shine, unless it’s pouring, 10AM–4PM. We’ll see you there.

Participating publishers:

3 Hole Press, 53rd State Press, 8-Ball, A Public Space, Anarchist Review of Books, Archipelago Books, Autonomedia, The Baffler, Belladonna*, Birds, LLC, Black Sun Lit / Vestiges, Common Notions, Daba, The Feminist Press, Hanging Loose, Inpatient Press, McPherson & Company, n+1, Nightboat, OR Books, Pioneer Works, Poets & Traitors Press, Radix Media, Secret Riso Club, Seven Stories Press, Song Cave, Ugly Duckling Presse, Verso Books, Wendy’s Subway, Winter Editions, Wonder, World Poetry, Zone Books
 

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MFA alum Jonathan Kravetz is having his book launch for his debut novel, How We Were Before, tomorrow night as part of the Half King Reading Series at Revision Lounge and Gallery tomorrow night!

If you’re free, head down to Avenue B tomorrow night!

The first Powerhouse Arts Community Day will feature hands-on workshops, demonstrations, screenings, and conversations with PHA Print, Ceramics, and Public Art shops, as well as partner organizations, artists, and educators. Textile Arts Center, Reel Works, Beam Center, Center For Urban Pedagogy, Makeville Studio, UrbanGlass, ESPO’s Art World, The Alpha Workshops, NYC Resistor, Craftspring, Street Lab, MGC Community Print Studio, and The People’s Creative Institute will all be on site.

Powerhouse Arts (PHA) is a not-for-profit organization committed to creative expression. Our purpose-built facility hosts an extended network of art and fabrication professionals and educators who work together to co-create and share artistic practices vital to the wellbeing of artists and the communities to which they belong. 

This family friendly, all-ages event, taking place across three floors in our purpose-built art-making facility, will also include performances in our beautiful, light-filled Loft and Brooklyn College’s M.F.A. Students Thesis Exhibition in our Lobby. The event runs 1–5pm (doors close at 4:30pm) and is free with RSVP:

Walk away with a screenprint; bring your own shirt for an ESPO original; design a zine; make a button; paint with clay; learn soldering, glassblowing, marbling, community weaving, blockprinting; and much more!

05/25/2024 – 1:00 pm
The Louis Armstrong House Museum
34-56 107th Street
Queens, NY 11368

Each year, the Queens College MFA Program partners with the Louis Armstrong House Museum to create a residency for two of our students. During this time, each writer conducts research on any aspect of the materials in the archives that relate to or revolve around Louis Armstrong’s larger-than-life story and magnificent musical career, with the intention of developing their own creative work. This reading, in Louis’ own garden, is the culmination of their work.

This year’s fellows Nina DalleyHood and Danielle Gutkovich will read from the creative works they developed in conjunction with their time in the archives. Afterward, a small reception will take place, featuring tours of Louis Armstrong’s actual house.

The Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM) sustains and promotes the cultural, historical, and humanitarian legacy of Louis Armstrong by preserving and interpreting Armstrong’s house and grounds, collecting and sharing archival materials that document Armstrong’s life and legacy, developing programs for the public that educate and inspire, and engaging with contemporary artists to create performances and new works.

https://www.facebook.com/events/724256969909242

Sunday, May 5th, 2024
12pm – 5pm
@ Oyate Group
276 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451

MFA alum Nadir Misir will be taking part in an exhibition of Indo-Caribbean visual artists and writers, called Indian Arrival | Indentured Survival, at the Oyate Group headquarters in The Bronx. The exhibit, opening on May 5th, will feature art and literature by the descendants of indentured Indo-Caribbean peoples in celebration of Indian Arrival Month.

Oyate Group (derived from the Dakota language, meaning “people”) is a New York City-based nonprofit organization with the mission to alleviate poverty. The exhibition, curated by Indo-Guyanese artist Raqeebah Zaman, seeks to alleviate poverty through education and information.

Register for the event here: https://tinyurl.com/3682dte8

Tuesday, April 30 at 7PM
Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer St.
Brooklyn, NY

Grab your thinking caps because the next Brainstorm is coming your way, featuring poet Roger Sedarat (Haji As Puppet: An Orientalist Burlesque) and musician Leah Coloff (The Secret City).

Brainstorm is a reading series organized by grad students from the
Queens College MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation.
Come hear writers you know, meet writers you might like to know, and
perhaps be introduced to your future favorite author.

Tuesday, April 16, 7PM
(Reception at 6:30PM)
QC Art Center, Rosenthal Library 612
Moderated by Peter Vanderberg
In-person, or via Zoom: http://tinyurl.com/2efezp7x

Join us as we celebrate the latest winner of the Birdhouse Prize from Ghostbird Press, Hannah Lee! She’ll be reading from her award-winning chapbook, On the Other Side of the Magpie, along with past winners Joe Gross and Francesca Hyatt.

Ghostbird Press is a small, independent chapbook press that publishes collaborations of writing and visual art. Peter Vanderberg, a fellow QC MFA alum, offers the annual Birdhouse Prize to graduating QC MFA students, resulting in a gorgeous full-color chapbook for the winner.

If you can’t make it to campus for this wonderful event for the QC community, we hope you can join us over Zoom via the link below.
Join via Zoom:

http://tinyurl.com/2efezp7x

BIOS:

Hannah Lee is a NYC-based Korean-American poet who processes her world through poetry. She is a graduate of the Queens College MFA program, and was an editor at Armstrong Literary. Her work has been featured in Encounters Magazine.

Francesca Hyatt is a writer, translator, and lecturer of English at CUNY-Queens College. She has MFA in Creative Nonfiction and her chapbook Forestwish won the Birdhouse Prize in 2022 (Ghostbird Press). She is the editor at KtB Magazine, a founding co-editor at the new literary journal Clotheslines, and the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Eating Alone. www.francescahyatt.com.

Joe Gross is a Flushing-based bookseller, poet, translator, and author the prize-winning chapbook Lest We All Get Clipped (Ghostbird Press, His work has been anthologized in Eating Alone: Essays & Reflections (Clotheslines Press). His work has been anthologized in Eating Alone: Essays & Reflections (Clotheslines Press 2023) and The Pearl (Wyeth Renwick 2023). He holds an MFA from Queens College, where he was co-editor of Armstrong Literary. Twitter: @komradekapybara Instagram: @joegrosspoet

Peter Vanderberg is the editor of Ghostbird Press and a PhD student at St. John’s University. He is the author of several chapbooks including war/torn, recently released from Finishing Line Press. He lives and teaches on Long Island.

We are delighted to welcome Sunu Chandy and Roger Wyze Smith back to Queens, so we can celebrate their new books. (Unfortunately, Ariel Francisco cannot make it.) Their books will for sale in the reception area, and Sunu and Roger will sign them. Feel free to come early if want some pre-event snaks!