A party and reading for Hanging Loose 116

Name: A party and reading for Hanging Loose 116
Start: 2025-04-06T14:00:00-04:00
Location: Torn Page

Schedule

Sun, 06 Apr, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Torn Page | New York, NY

Hanging Loose Magazine
Issue 116
Our 58th year of continuous publication, with covers and an art portfolio by Donna Pomponio. It features a supplement: “New Haitian Voices,” curated and translated by Milady Auguste, another large selection from Barbara Henning’s “Girlfriend” sequence and an exciting excerpt from a memoir by Marion Gillon. Others included in this issue are regulars such as Carole Bernstein, Debrah Cash, Gerald Fleming, R. Zamora Linmark, , Robert Terashima, and Terance Winch, plus many poets new to HL, among them: Kevin Bertolero, Gregory Crosby, Jakima Davis, Starr Davis, Katherine Edgren, Max Roland Ekstrom, Jordan E. Franklin, Gloria Frym, Boni Joi, Chris Martin, Juan Mobili, Earl Nobdy, Jim Papa, Jean-Paul Pecqueur, Pareesa Pourian, Vanesha Pravin, Stephen Roxborough, Stephen Ruffus, Lauren Russell, Helen Tzagoloff, Fred Voss; a translation of Natsume Soseki by Ryan Choi, and a collaborative poem by Sean Cole and David Kirschenbaum; and as always, work by outstanding poets of high school age.
https://www.hangingloosepress.com/magazine/116/

Sean Cole is the author of After These Messages from Lunar Chandelier press. His poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Black Clock, Court Green, Boog City, Hanging Loose and other journals. He's also a long-time producer and reporter for various public radio shows and podcasts.
Gregory Crosby is the author of Said No One Ever (2021, Brooklyn Arts Press) and Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion (2018, The Operating System); he is the poetry editor for Bowery Gothic, and teaches writing at Pace University.
Vincent Katz is the author of the poetry collection Daffodil, out this year from Alfred A. Knopf, as well as the collections Broadway for Paul, Southness, and Swimming Home, among others. He collaborated with Anne Waldman on the book-length poem Fantastic Caryatids and with Andrei Codrescu on A Possible Epic of Care. Katz is the author of The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius, translations of the Roman love poet, and is currently translating the Works and Days and the Theogony of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. He is the editor of Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art, and his writing on contemporary art and poetry has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail and The Poetry Project Newsletter.
David A. Kirschenbaum (http://boogcity.com) is the author of The July Project 2007 (Open 24 Hours), a series of songs about Star Wars set to rock and pop classics. His work has appeared where is forthcoming in Brooklyn Rail, the Brooklyn Review Online, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Chain, Hanging Loose Magazine, Pine Hills Review, and The Village Voice, among others.

He is the editor and publisher of Boog City, a New York City-based small press and electronic newspaper now in its 33rd year. He is the director of the biannual Welcome to Boog City Arts Festivals, entering their 18th year this September.

Jean-Paul Pecqueur’s first book, The Case Against Happiness, was published two lifetimes ago by Alice James Books. Three chapbooks, To Embrace Sea Monsters, The Imaginations, and The Future of Love have been published a little more recently by Greying Ghost Press, Forklift, Ink., and CCCP Chapbooks + Subpress. Originally from the pacific northwest, Jean-Paul currently teaches composition and creative writing to fine arts students at the Pratt Institute and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.