Washington Square Midsummer Party

The Washington Square Midsummer Party is tonight at Happy Ending on Broome St. 7:30 pm and it is free free free. John Yau, Timothy Liu, Miranda Field, Ben Mirov, Katherine Bogden, Porter Fox, and Conrad Woolfe will be reading. And I will be there basking in literary delight. Come one and all.

Bryant Park Reading Tonight

Suzanne Gardinier, Ana Božičević, and Jericho Brown are scheduled to read tonight at Bryant Park. If this weather keeps up, they’ll be reading at the rain location: The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, 20 W. 44th St. between 5th & 6th Aves (a few blocks from the park). I’ve been reading Gardinier’s book, 101 Ghazals, which is fantastic. I heard her read at the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Prize Reading back in April, and she was wonderful.

One of my favorite pieces of hers continues after the jump.

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I’ve lost my shoes Have you seen them
The winged ones that used to carry me

I’ve heard that when people die they remember
their mothers and call in the night Carry me