12/04: D.H. Varma, Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves, Jasmine Gibson

D.H. Varma is a graduate of the MFA Program at the University of Notre Dame. His work has appeared in LAC/LAKE, NonBinary Review,Oxford American Magazine, mojo, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Memphis, where he writes book reviews for MAKE Literary Magazine, loves on three house cats (Ella, Cole, and Paris), and maintains a personal blog: www.pillowfort.space. 

Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves is an information artist inspired by wilderness and machines. Author of the forthcoming 2015 Bulletin of Wilderness and Academy (Organic Electric Industries, TBD), she lives and works in New York City.

Jasmine Gibson is a Philly jawn now living in Brooklyn and soon to be psychotherapist for all your gooey psychotic episodes that match the bipolar flows of capital. She spends her time thinking about sexy things like psychosis, desire and freedom. She has written for Mask Magazine and LIES Vol II: Journal of Materialist feminism and has now published a chapbook, Drapetomania, off of Commune Editions.

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Reading starts at 7PM.




The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store).

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

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11/13: Jennif(f)er Tamayo, Eunsong Kim, John Keene

Jennif(f)er Tamayo is a queer, latinx Colombian-born writer, performer and community activist currently living in Harlem. JT is the author of RED MISSED ACHES/RED MISTAKES/READ MISSED ACHES/READ MISTAKES (Switchback, 2011), POEMS ARE THE ONLY REAL BODIES (Bloof Books, 2013) and YOU DA ONE  (2014/15 reprint Noemi Books & Letras Latinas).

Eunsong Kim is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, San Diego. Her essays on literature, digital cultures, and art criticism have appeared and are forthcoming in: The New Inquiry, Model View Culture, AAWW’s The Margins, Art in America, and others. Her poetry has been published in: Denver Quarterly, Seattle Review, Feral Feminisms, Minnesota Review, Iowa Review, and Action Yes. Her first book will be published by Noemi press in 2017.

John Keene is the author of the award-winning novel Annotations (New Directions); the art-poetry collection Seismosis (1913 Press) with artist Christopher Stackhouse; and the short fiction collection Counternarratives (New Directions), which has been named to "Best Fiction of 2015" lists by New York Magazine and Flavorwire, and selected as a "top read" by Library Journal, Time Out New York, and Washington City Paper. He has also published a translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer (Nightboat Books / A Bolha Editora). His work has appeared in a wide array of periodicals and anthologies, and has exhibited his artwork in Brooklyn and Berlin. He teaches in the departments of English and African American and African Studies, which he chairs, and also is a core faculty member in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark.

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Reading starts at 7PM.




The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store).

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html

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10/30: Wo Chan, Stephon Lawrence, Tommy Pico

Wo Chan likes lipgloss and shoestring fries. Favorite dates include Coney Island boardwalk, holding hands in laundromats, and November 10.

       

Stephon Lawrence is a Brooklyn born & based writer, and artist. She is a current candidate in the MFA in Writing and Activism at Pratt Institute. She is working on a chapbook entitled, NERVS, and spends her free time watching anime and yelling about white supremacy.

Tommy “Teebs” Pico is the author of absentMINDR (VERBALVISUAL, 2014)—the first chapbook APP published for iOS mobile/tablet devices—was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry, and has poems in BOMB, Guernica, and [PANK]. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn and co-curates the Poets with Attitude (PWA) reading series with Morgan Parker. @heyteebs

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Reading starts at 7PM.




The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store).

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html

Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/

10/2: Simone White, Coda Wei, Christopher Soto (Loma)

Simone White was born Middletown, Connecticut, and raised in Philadelphia. She earned her BA from Wesleyan University, JD from Harvard Law School, and MFA from the New School. White is the author of the full-length collection House Envy of All the World (2010) and the chapbooks Dolly (2008) and Unrest (2013). Her work has been praised for its innovative complexity, allusive song, and “lyric deconstruction of desire, entitlement, blackness, the domestic, language and diction,” in the words of Anna Moschovakis. White has received fellowships from Cave Canem and was selected as a New American Poet for the Poetry Society of America. She is completing a PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

(Photo credit: Sarah McKenzie)

Coda is a nonbinary femme currently hiding in upper darby recovering from white feminism & the loss of the oriental grl/qtpoc wytch crew which never existed & trying to work on their shit. Their previous writings can be found at the fanzine or at perfect lovers press under the name Debbie Hu or in moonroot #2 or hoaxzine #8. . . also under that name... Or at everyday genius or forthcoming in LIES vol. 2 or HOLD mag.

Christopher Soto (aka Loma) is a queer latin@ punk poet & prison abolitionist. Their first chapbook “Sad Girl Poems” is forthcoming from Sibling Rivalry Press. They cofounded The Undocupoets Campaign with Javier Zamora & Marcelo Hernandez Castillo in 2015. They’ve interned at the Poetry Society of America & received an MFA in poetry from NYU. They edit Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color with the Lambda Literary Foundation. Originally from the Los Angeles area, they now live in Brooklyn.

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Reading starts at 7PM.




The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store).

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html

Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/

9/18: Sade Murphy, Urayoán Noel, Uche Nduka

Sade Murphy is a poet and artist from Houston, TX. Sade is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, the author of Dream Machine (co-im-press, 2014), and a columnist at Real Pants (Lonely Britches and What's the Tea). They are pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing and Activism at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Urayoán Noel is the author of several books of poetry in English and Spanish, including Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVOX Books, 2010), Los días porosos (Catafixia Editorial, Guatemala, 2012; rpt. Atarraya Cartonera, Puerto Rico, 2014), and Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (University of Arizona Press, 2015), as well as the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa Press, 2014), winner of the Latino Studies Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association. Also a translator and performer, and a former CantoMundo and Ford Foundation fellow, Noel lives in the Bronx, teaches at NYU, and curates the Borders and Diasporas (B.A.D.) series. Learn more at http://urayoannoel.com/.

Uche Nduka is a Nigerian-American poet and essayist. His recent books are Heart's Field, eel on reef, Ijele, Nine East. Some of his writings have been translated into German, Dutch, French, Romanian, Italian. He presently lives in New York City and teaches at CUNY.

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Reading starts at 6:30PM.




The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store).

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html

Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/

5/15: Arnold Kemp, erica lewis, Sreshta Rit Premnath

Arnold Kemp is an American artist that works in painting, print, sculpture, and poetry. Kemp received a BA/BFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and an MFA from Stanford University. From 1991 to 2006, Kemp lived and worked in San Francisco, CA, where he showed works independently and was a curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. More recently, he was chair of the MFA in Visual Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art PNCA in Portland, Oregon. He currently serves as Painting and Printmaking Chair & Associate Professor at the School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2001, he first showed work in New York at the Studio Museum's "Freestyle" Exhibition. The "Freestyle" exhibition was discussed in the context of the Post-black art movement, a moment where black artists confronted and abandoned the label of being 'black' artists. Significant works of Kemp’s are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Berkeley Art Museum, The Tacoma Art Museum, and the Fine Arts Collection at the University of California, Davis. In 2012, Kemp was awarded a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

erica lewis lives in San Francisco where she is a fine arts publicist and curates the john oates house reading series. Her work has appeared in various anthologies, journals, and on the SFMOMA “Open Space” blog. Books include daryl hall is my boyfriend (Barrelhouse 2015), murmur in the inventory (Shearsman Books), and the precipice of jupiter (Queue Books) and camera obscura (BlazeVox Books), both collaborations with artist Mark Stephen Finein. A double chapbook project, rarities and b sides/songs for mary is forthcoming from Lame House Press in fall 2015, and a chapbook, voodoo child vintage church bird house/wood, was published in spring 2015 from Ypolita. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Sreshta Rit Premnath has had solo exhibitions at KANSAS, New York; Gallery SKE, Bangalore; The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago; Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin; Wave Hill, New York; Art Statements, Art Basel; as well as numerous group exhibitions at venues including Queens Museum, New York; YBCA, San Francisco; Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris; 1A Space, Hong Kong; Thomas Erben Gallery and Friedman Benda Gallery, New York. He is the founder and co-editor of the publication Shifter. Premnath completed his MFA at Bard College, and has attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, Skowhegan and Smack Mellon. He has received grants from Art Matters and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and was awarded the Arthur Levitt Fellowship from Williams College. Based in Brooklyn, Premnath is Assistant Professor at Parsons, New York.

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Reading starts at 7PM.




The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store).

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html

Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/

4/10: Jeanine Oleson, Leslie Allison, Jessica Posner

Jeanine Oleson is a visual artist who loves images, objects, and words. She has widely exhibited her work, most recently a large-scale residency/exhibition/performances at the New Museum in Spring 2014.

www.jeanineoleson.com

Leslie Allison is a Brooklyn-based writer and musician. She composes choral music for plays with ongoing collaborator Francis Weiss Rabkin, and is currently writing scores for CockyBoys films. She is a regular dance critic for The Brooklyn Rail, and her first chapbook, Martha, will be released this April through Ugly Ducking Presse. 

Jessica Posner is a difficult woman. She is a feminist, artist, performer, and worker. Her current research revolves around the Butter Body Politic, a platform which explores butter as a metaphor for the body and body politic. She has performed her work and the work of others nationally and internationally, and has been featured as one of the best free things to do in New York City by AM New York. Her feminist art/riot grrl band, Malvinas, is releasing their first EP in 2015. Posner received an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons the New School for Design in 2013, and a BS from Syracuse University in 2008. She currently teaches in the Department of Transmedia, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY.

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Reading starts at 7PM.




The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store).

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html

Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/