for [Red Missed Aches] on Switchback's Facebook page. And here are some videos! First, JT reads, accompanied by a recording of JT reading: Then, the HOOD DANCE!!!: JT ends the reading by thanking her co-conspirator, Sean:
Carina has an amazing fashion-centric write-up of JT's launch party for [Red Missed Aches] up at her blog. Photos and videos from the event coming soon! xo Switchback
Check out three poems by Switchback author Jessica Bozek in the last issue of Sawbuck for a while or maybe ever.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 8 pm The Poetry Project 131 E. 10th St. New York Free Admission From Belladonna*: Please join us as we create a space for people to read and perform Akilah Oliver's work and work inspired by her. The reading will be in the Parish Hall, a room where she read her work, carefully listened to the work of other poets and taught workshops. The event is an opportunity for us to express our deep gratitude and pay homage to her gifts and her greatness. With Rachel Levitsky, Eileen Myles, Patricia Spears Jones, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Tonya Foster, E. Tracy Grinnell, Tracie Morris, Charles Bernstein, Steven Taylor, Tyler Burba, Julian T. Brolaski, Rachel Zolf, Joyce LeeAn
Click to enlarge flyer, or see below for details! Switchback Books presents Cathy Park Hong & Jennifer Tamayo Reading & Book Launch for Jennifer Tamayo's RED MISSED ACHES READ MISSED ACHES RED MISTAKES READ MISTAKES Tuesday, June 14, 2011 | 6 p.m. Pete's Candy Store | 709 Lorimer St. | Brooklyn, NY | Subway: Lorimer St. L [Red Missed Aches] feels defiantly unfinished, adhering to a DIY feminist punk aesthetic so that it is more rough assemblage than bound book, a palimpsest that provocatively revises female sexuality and citizenship. Tamayo's debut collection is a daring and astonishing work that refuses borders. --Cathy Park Hong, judge of Switchback Books' 2010 Gatewood Prize A writer, art