Featuring:
Wendy Chin-Tanner
Hafizah Geter
Paul Legault
Dolan Morgan
and the music of blues guitarist Rob Europe
Hosted by Matthew Daddona, Caroline Hagood, and Matt Petronzio
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.
This is a general admission event in The Gallery at LPR.
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Kill Genre presents: Our Inaugural Reading…"AmeriKa: Baseball, Ballers, and Angelheaded Hipsters"
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.
Wendy Chin-Tanner
Wendy Chin-Tanner official site
Wendy Chin-Tanner is the author of Turn (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards. Some of her work can be found at The Collagist, The Rumpus, The Huffington Post, xoJane, Vinyl, RHINO Poetry, Denver Quarterly, The Margins, and The Mays Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge. She is a founding editor at Kin Poetry Journal and poetry editor at The Nervous Breakdown.
Hafizah Geter
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.
Paul Legault
Paul Legault is the author of four books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2 (Fence), The Emily Dickinson Reader (McSweeney’s), The Other Poems (Fence), and The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn). Legault has taught at the University of Virginia, Fordham University, and served as Writer in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently the Director of Programs and Communications for CLMP, the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.
Dolan Morgan
Dolan Morgan lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where he helps edit The Atlas Review. He’s the author of two story collections, That’s When the Knives Come Down (A|P,2014), and INSIGNIFICANA (CCM, 2016). His work can be found in The Believer, PANK, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Selected Shorts, and the trash.