This week in New York, the West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn, Red Lemonade Launch Party with Kio Stark, Melville House Poetry After 9/11, Red Hen Press authors at Bowery Poetry Club, Mike Geffner’s Inspired Word with Rachel Eliza Griffiths and Paulie Lipman, the 4th Annual Nerd Nite Nerdtacular, Poets House and Trinity Wall Street present Remembrance and Reconciliation Through Poetry, and LitCrawl NYC at KGB Bar.
MONDAY 9/05: Barbecues and almost back to school time. Oh yeah, there’s also the big West Indian American Day Parade that takes over Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn today. Carnival in Brooklyn and lots of good curry and roti, too. Parade starts at 11 a.m.
TUESDAY 9/06: Tonight, it’s the Red Lemonade Launch Party, which will celebrate the launch of three things: Kio Stark’s book Follow Me Down; Red Lemonade, Richard Nash’s new Brooklyn-based indie press; and Cursor, a project to help support the world’s next 50,000 indie presses. Kio Stark, Dave Sterner, and Henry Williams will read, along with other Red Lemonade writers. DJ Russ will spin. The Bell House. 7 p.m. Free.
WEDNESDAY 9/07: Greenlight Bookstore and Melville House Press will host Poetry After 9/11: Ten Years Later, with poets Miranda Beeson, Star Black, Patricia Spears Jones, Carter Ratcliff, Dennis Nurske, Lewis Warsh and hosted by Melville House publishers Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians. 7:30 p.m. Free.
THURSDAY 9/08: Red Hen Press has traveled to NYC for a special reading, featuring Rita Mae Reese, The Alphabet Conspiracy; Rachel Contreni Flynn, Tongue; Carol Potter, Otherwise Obedient; and Terry Wolverton, Embers. Bowery Poetry Club. 6 p.m. $8.
Also on Thursday night, Mike Geffner presents The Inspired Word with Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Mule & Pear and Paulie Lipman, a poet and musician who just released a new album, The Obscene Gravity of Silence. Also featuring a 15-20 slot open mic open to all artists. One and One Bar & Restaurant (downstairs at Nexus Lounge). 6:30 p.m. $10.
FRIDAY 9/09: Come one, come all, nerds. It’s the 4th Annual Nerd Nite Nerdtacular. There will be smarty pants presentations on romance novels and society, paleocosmology (yes, dinosaurs in space!), and mathematicians. The night will also feature the music of Palomar and a circus-like performance by the Science Acrobats. Galapagos Art Space. 7:30 p.m. $15.
SATURDAY 9/10: Poets House and Trinity Wall Street present Ten Years After September 11, 2001, Remembrance and Reconciliation Through Poetry, featuring some of today’s leading American poets: Mark Doty, Cornelius Eady, Marie Howe, Major Jackson, J. Chester Johnson, Lawrence Joseph, Martha Rhodes and others will read poems of grief, remembrance and reconciliation. Reception to follow. Trinity Church. 3 p.m. Free.
Also on Saturday, LitCrawl NYC, it’s a bar crawl with books where authors compete to come up with the best first lines to books and the audience has to guess what the real sentence is. Tonight’s authors include Fiona Maazel, Lizzie Skurnick, and Shya Scanlon. KGB Bar. 6 p.m.
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