NYC Book Launch Readings for Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)'s "God in Her Ruffled Dress," Bryant Park Reading Room & Unnameable Books, Brooklyn

Does a new book really exist if it's not launched in the Big Apple!?

I'm grateful for the organizers of these two poetry readings, and my fellow readers!, for these upcoming launch events featuring my new poetry book God in Her Ruffled Dress (What Books Press). 

Plus, yay, a new chance to come from my Oakland, Calif. home to New York City, where my parents were born and grew up, and where my grandparents put down strong roots (after Eastern Europe)!

Bryant Park Reading Room - Summer Poetry Series

Tuesday, August 20

6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Free

Hosted by Jason Schneiderman

Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)

AND

Jenny Factor, Daisy Fried, Rodney Terich Leonard, Tom Sleigh

Bryant Park is located between 40th and 42nd Streets and Fifth and Sixth Avenues behind the New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman building.

Take the B, D, F, or M train to 42nd Street/Bryant Park.
Take the 7 train to 5th Avenue.

Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)

Jenny Factor

Daisy Fried

Rodney Terich Leonard

Adam Sleigh

Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)'s new volume of poems God in Her Ruffled Dress (What Books Press) appears 34 years after her debut full-length poetry book The Transparent Body (Wesleyan University Press). Her poems have appeared in 60+ anthologies and journals, including City Lights Review, Kenyon Review, Lilith, Ploughshares, Poetry International, Tikkun, and Zyzzyva. She has won creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and others. She is also a jazz and groove singer and spoken-word artist; her seven albums received critical acclaim and extensive radio play. She has a complementary career as a psychic reader and healer. See lisabmusic.com and lisabintuitive.com. 

Info on all the poets here.

What a cool, only-in-NY place! With a storied history, the Reading Room provides the free use of books, newspapers, and magazines in the park during warm-weather months. You'll also find a robust schedule of literary events in addition to the Poetry Series, including Books on Broadway, Author, BookClub, StoryTime, and much more! https://bryantpark.org/activities/reading-room - scroll down to Poetry.

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Unnameable Books

Wednesday, August 21

7:00 p.m.

Free

Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)

AND 

Sarah Kain Gutowski and Jason Schneiderman

615 Vanderbilt Ave. (@ St. Marks)

in the heart of Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
(718) 789-1534
unnameablebooks@earthlink.net
http://unnameablebooks.square.site/

Sarah Kain Gutowski

Jason Scheiderman

Sarah Kain Gutowski is the author of two books, The Familiar and Fabulous Beast: Poems, winner of the 14th annual National Indies Excellence Award for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Threepenny Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and The Southern Review, and her criticism has been published by Colorado Review, Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, and the New York Journal of Books. A full-time tenured Professor of English at Suffolk County Community College, Gutowski is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the Academy of American Poets, the Popular Culture Association, and Pen Parentis.

Jason Schneiderman’s fifth collection of poems is Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire Red Hen Press). He is also the editor of the anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford UP 2016); his book of essays Nothingism: Poetry at the End of Print Culture (University of Michigan Press Poets) is out in 2025. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Penguin Book of the Sonnet and three installments of Best American Poetry. His awards include the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America and a Fulbright Fellowship. He is Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.