Kill Genre is a quarterly poetry reading series…minus the poetry. The first series of its kind, Kill Genre showcases groundbreaking works that push the boundaries of form and flirt dangerously with hybridity, integrates musical performance, and includes the audience in innovative ways.

Each show features 3-4 carefully curated, extraordinary writers and a compelling, playful theme, such as “In Which Poets Embarrass Themselves by Trying Their Hands at Plot”; “Cliffhangers are Key: Poets, Where Are You?”; “Poets, Tell Us About Yourselves (and Keep it Brief!)” and so forth.

Come see the best and most original poets in New York brandishing their skills in other genres—from fiction to essays to memoir to more experimental forms—because, when it comes to genre, it’s kill or be killed.

Elisabeth Frost’s books include All of Us: Poems (White Pine), Bindle (collaborations with artist Dianne Kornberg, Ricochet Editions), and The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry. She is Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Fordham University, where she edits the Poets Out Loud Prizes book series from Fordham Press.

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Born in Zaria, Nigeria, Hafizah Geter is a Cave Canem Fellow and a recipient of a 2012 Amy Award from Poets & Writers. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Linebreak, Narrative Magazine, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New Yorker, among others. She is the Content and Publicity Coordinator at Poets House.

Sharon Mesmer’s newest poetry collection, Greetings From My Girlie Leisure Place, was voted “Best of 2015” by Entropy. Previous poetry collections are Annoying Diabetic Bitch, The Virgin Formica, Vertigo Seeks Affinities, Half Angel, Half Lunch, and Crossing Second Avenue. Four of her poems appear in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (second edition, 2013). Her fiction collections are Ma Vie à Yonago, In Ordinary Time, and The Empty Quarter. Her awards include a Fulbright Specialist grant, and two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships. She teaches fiction and poetry workshops at New York University and The New School, and lives in Brooklyn.

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Caitlin Mahoney is a New York City-based singer/songwriter/dreamer. Mahoney’s debut LP Spin, released in May 2015, received praise from the likes of American Songwriter, MusicTimes and Baeblemusic, who described Mahoney’s voice as “powerful and soulful – a mix of Adele and Fiona Apple.” Her music has been featured on ABC Family, the Family Channel in Canada, Daytrotter, and in Starbucks stores throughout the United States. Since 2013, she has played more than 200 shows across the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy. She is currently back in the studio to record a new album in Brooklyn.