offal literary salon

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inaugural salon readers so weird and wild, hide your children, hide your husbands

abject as in word vomit

we are a week out from the launch of the offal literary salon upstairs at public records in brooklyn, ny. we have two open reading spots open for the next salon, and priority will be given to folks who show up in person for the launch. come party with us.

we are a week out from the launch of the offal literary salon upstairs at public records in brooklyn, ny. we have two open reading spots open for the next salon, and priority will be given to folks who show up in person for the launch. come party with us.

we are a week out from the launch of the offal literary salon upstairs at public records in brooklyn, ny. we have two open reading spots open for the next salon, and priority will be given to folks who show up in person for the launch. come party with us.

rsvp to the inaugural offal literary salon where we mean abject as in word vomit and practice nonopticonism* as a lifestyle choice no one is watching even if everyone is watching so write from the body, be naked

rsvp to the inaugural offal literary salon where we mean abject as in word vomit and practice nonopticonism* as a lifestyle choice no one is watching even if everyone is watching so write from the body, be naked

rsvp to the inaugural offal literary salon where we mean abject as in word vomit and practice nonopticonism* as a lifestyle choice no one is watching even if everyone is watching so write from the body, be naked

alissa bennett is the queen of the weird girl, the eldritch doula of the weird girl, the archivist and scholar of the weird girl, the lived-it-so-you-better-believe-it of the weird girls. no one does it like alissa, no one gets abjection and celebrates it like alissa, no one delights in that which we are most ashamed of like alissa. to know her is to be in awe of her, and to be mentored by her is to have special access to everything that truly matters in the universe. alissa bennett is the special guest of the inaugural offal literary salon. she'll kick us off with a special, extended reading at the beginning of the evening. Alissa Bennett's (@arnoldfriend6 ) writing has appeared in publications including Texte Zur Kunst, Interview, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. Bennett teaches in the graduate programs at Yale School of the Arts and Sarah Lawrence College.

buffy is a presence, a sorceress, something more than human on stage. she reads and the world reshapes itself around her in her image. she reads and tectonic plates shift to accommodate her words. come see buffy read at the inaugural offal literary salon. Buffy's ( @buffysierra ) words have been published in The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Kitchen Magazine, Bloodletter Magazine, and multiple academic journals. Her work has been supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Franklin Furnace, the New York State Council on the Arts, Dance/NYC, Movement Research, and the Processing Foundation. She is a resident artist and company member with the Great Jones Repertory Company at La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, Producer for La MaMa's SQUIRTS: Generations of Queer Performance, Co-Producer for an experimental performance series called HOLE PICS, Event Coordinator at Creative Time, and an editor for Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory. She received her dual BA in literature and sexuality studies from Columbia University and her MA in performance studies from NYU Tisch.

gena writes velvet and spider silk and pennyroyal and vinegar on the page, full of heart ache and galaxy mind and all the senses on fire. come see gena read at the inaugural offal literary salon. Gena Huynh ( @gehnadon ) is a Vietnamese-American writer based in New York City. Her work explores the body in relation to displacement, mythos, and queerness.