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Showing posts with label Geer Austin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geer Austin. Show all posts

Friday, March 25, 2016

Poets Wear Prada at NY Rainbow Book Fair

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Boutique publishing house Poets Wear Prada is pleased to announce that we will be tabling  with Eggplant Press at the eighth annual New York  Rainbow Book Fair and that several of our authors will be reading for the event.  The Rainbow Book Fair is the largest LGBTQ book event in the United States. The 2016 fair will be held on Saturday, April 9th from 12:00pm to 6:00pm at John Jay College of Criminal Justice located at 524 W. 59th Street (just west of 10th Avenue) in Manhattan. 

Our authors will be reading at two different readings at the fair.  Here's a list of the readers and their scheduled time slots. (Please note that this schedule is subject to change.)

2016 COME HERE! Poetry Salon hosted by Regie Cabico and Nathaniel Siegel


12:10-12:15pm  Geer Austin
01:05-01:10pm  Austin Alexis
01:20-01:25pm  Michael Montlack
01:30-01:35pm  John J. Trause
05:00-05:05pm  Joel Allegretti


2016 Main Reading Event

01:00 - 01:20pm  Chocolate Waters
04:00 - 04:20pm  Roxanne Hoffman


Roxanne Hoffman founded Poets Wear Prada in 2006 with the release of  a limited edition of B.D. Lyon's debut poetry collection, a chapbook titled "Your Infidel Eyes." From the press's  inception, it editors have continued to seek out the works of queer writers, women, and people of various ethnicity and cultural backgrounds as it strives to introduce unique and exceptional emerging writers and promote diversity to mainstream audiences with well-edited and beautifully designed volumes.  

Poets Wear Prada is proud to have published debut and early collections of Jee Leong Koh, John J. Trause, Austin Alexis, Michael Montack, Joel Allegretti and Geer Austin. In  2011 Poets Wear Prada in conjunction with Eggplant Press published groundbreaking feminist lesbian writer Chocolate Waters's first new book in over three decades, "The Woman Who Wouldn't Shake Hands." Hoffman co-edited "Pears, Prose and Poetry: Anthology of the 9th Annual Fresh Fruit Festival Poetry Event," also published in conjunction with Eggplant Press.

Founded in 2006 in Hoboken, New Jersey, birthplace of Frank Sinatra and professional baseball, Poets Wear Prada is a boutique book publisher devoted to introducing and promoting emerging writers to the mainstream audiences with beautifully designed volumes of well-crafted poetry and prose.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Emotive Fruition Features Geer Austin's Work Wednesday April 22, 2015 in NYC at 7:30pm

Emotive Fruition
EMOTIVE FRUITION: A RADICAL POETRY READING

The poetry of  poet and writer Geer Austin, author of Cloverleaf (Poets Wear Prada, 2014), will be featured Emotive Fruition's celebration of April is National Poetry Month, at Botanic Lab,  Wednesday, April 22, at 7:30pm in New York City. 

Take the F or M train to Essex street. About a 4-minute walk from the station.


Geer Austin
CELEBRATE NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!
Wednesday, April 22 @ 7:30pm
Botanic Lab
86 Orchard Street (at Broome)
New York, NY  10002
Emotive Fruition: Cel-e-brate Good Rhymes, C’mon!
Curated, directed and hosted by Thomas Dooley.


The poets: Geer Austin, Michael H. Broder, Richard Prins, David McLoghlin, Nicole Callihan, K.C. Trommer, Ama Codjoe, Chrissy Malvasi, Matthew Hittinger, Jason Schneiderman, Jackie Sherbow, Emily Brandt, Ashleigh Lambert, Arden Levine, Jerome Murphy, Moira-Jo Trachtenberg-Thielking, Jameson Fitzpatrick, Monica Wendel, and Michael Klein.


$10 at the door. The performance runs an hour.
Get a beverage, drink in the poems.

The actors: Helene Yorke, Pearl Sun, and Lucas Hall

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 For more information about Emotive Fruition please visit their website: http://emotivefruition.org/

Monday, April 20, 2015

Poets Wear Prada at the 2015 Rainbow Book Fair in New York

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Authors Rosalie Calabrese and Austin Alexis
The 2015 Rainbow Book Fair
Holiday Inn - Midtown, NYC
Sat., April 18, 2015


Our authors Joel Allegretti (THRUM, EUROPA/NIPPON/NEW YORK: Poems/Not-Poems), Michael Montlack (The Slip), Austin Alexis (Lovers and Drag Queens, For Lincoln & Other Poems), Jee Leong Koh (PAYDAY LOANS), Chocolate Waters (The Woman Who Wouldn't Shake Hands, and Geer Austin (Cloverleaf) read at the event's Poetry Salon hosted by Nathaniel Siegel.

Here's a little clip of Geer Austin reading at the event:







Monday, December 1, 2014

2015 Pushcart Nomination: "Open Heart Surgery" by Geer Austin



OPEN HEART SURGERY
 

You drop into my life
like a dream of death.
Your lips are blue, and your teeth are cracked.
You puff a cigarette.
Your fingertips glow fiery red.
We go to a bar called The Bar.
You slip away from me and I stare
across the room at ghostlike reflections of myself.
You push past them heading for the exit.
I run after you.
On the street, homeless people
shout political slogans
and groups of the unemployed
try to sell their old clothes.
You dance past them —
your camera flashing at neon signs.
The glare of a streetlamp hits your blond head.
You pause underneath to light a cocktail joint
spreading your legs wide to support
the weight of the black plastic lighter you hold in your hands.
I sneak up behind you and nudge your shoulder.
You crack a joke. I’m the punch line.
We climb flights and cross landings
to reach your bed.
You fall facedown on the duvet.
I flip you over and peel back layers of clothing.
Your chest is a road map of scars —
red routes leading to your heart.
I place my hands on top of this cloverleaf.
You slip between my fingers.

 

From Geer Austin’s debut poetry collection, Cloverleaf  (Poets Wear Prada: January 28, 2014)

Geer Austin
Cloverleaf

Poets Wear Prada Announces Their 2015 Pushcart Nominations




Congratulations to our nominees!


Author
Poem
Book
Geer Austin
“Open Heart Surgery”
Cloverleaf
Michael T. Young
“The Risk of Listening to Brahms”
The Beautiful Moment 
of Being Lost
Hilary Sideris
“Learning the Blues”
Most Likely to Die
Hilary Sideris
“All God’s Dangers”
Most Likely to Die
Daniel Simpson
“Almost Drowning”
School for the Blind
George Held
“Rabbit Ways”
Culling: New & Selected
Nature Poems

We'll be posting one nominated poem each day this week


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