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.

“Jordan E. Franklin is a poet from Brooklyn, NY. In 2012, she received her BFA from Brooklyn College. Currently, she is a Turner fellow and second-year MFA candidate at Stony Brook Southampton. Her work has appeared in the Southampton Review, North American Review, Suffragette City Zine and Breadcrumbs. In 2017, her work “Black Boy” was selected by Major Jackson as the winning poem of the James Hearst Poetry Prize hosted by the North American Review.

An avid performance poet, clips of her live sets can be found on the Buzzards Banquet website.”

Sarah Jean Grimm is the author of Soft Focus (Metatron, 2017) and a founding editor of the online quarterly, Powder Keg Magazine. Recent writing has appeared in New York Tyrant, Electric Literature, BOMB Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City, where she works as a publicist at Penguin Random House.

Photo Credit: Tramaine George

Michelle Yasmine Valladares official site

Michelle  Yasmine Valladares  is an author and poet who was recently awarded “The Poet of the Year” by the Americas Poetry Festival of NY for lifelong literary achievements. She is a producer of three independent award-winning films.  She currently directs the MFA Program at The City College of New York in Harlem.

Stephen Langlois is a recipient of a NYC Emerging Writers Fellowship from The Center for Fiction as well as a writing residency from the Blue Mountain Center. He also hosts BREW: An Evening of Literary Works, a reading series held in Brooklyn, and serves as fiction editor for FLAPPERHOUSE. His work has appeared in Glimmer Train, Joyland, Lit Hub, Barrelhouse, 3AM Magazine, Vol.1 Brooklyn, Maudlin House, and Split Lip Press, among others Visit him at www.stephenmlanglois.com.