Notable New York: 03/04-03/10

Monday 03/04: Ron Silliman and Robert Fitterman read as a part of the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. Dia Arts Foundation, 6:30pm, $6.

Wonder presents a reading featuring Insert-Blanc Press editor Mathew Timmons, who is visiting New York, as well as poets Jenny Zhang and Katie Dengentesh. La Sala, 7pm, Free.

Tuesday 03/05: The Belladonna* Collective invites poets and scholars to read from their own work and respond to representations of queer men in popular culture at their event Queer Masculinity, which will feature Ronaldo Wilson, Stephen Motika, Brian Pietras, Judith Jack Halberstam, and Mark Wunderlich. Dixon Place Theater, 7:30pm, $12 / $10 for students, free chapbook.

Geek Week continues in New York as Housing Works Bookstore hosts a panel on the graphic autobiographical form. At The Cartoonist in Comics: Using Autobiography in Graphic Novels, Christopher Irving moderates a panel featuring graphic novelists Dean Haspiel, Bob Fingerman, Laura Lee Gulledge, and Ethan Young. Housing Works Bookstore, 7pm, Free.

Wednesday 03/06: The Poetry Project hosts poet and performance artist Laura Elrick and the prolific Chilean poet Cecilia Vicuña to read tonight. St. Mark’s Church, 8pm, Free.

Manhood Revisited features a reading from author and journalist David McConnell, whose new book American Honor Killings [Akashic Books] explores recent cases of straight men killing gay men. McConnell suggests that instead of “hate crimes…[these] murders are ‘honor killings’ in which a whole society is complicit.” A discussion with author Ken Corbett follows. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30pm, Free.

Thursday 03/07: The Believer celebrates its 10th Anniversary with a variety show featuring Nick Hornby, Dawn of Midi, Ed Park, Sheila Heti, and more. Le Poisson Rouge, 7:30pm, $10.

Sarah Manguso reads from her memoir The Guardians [Picador]. A discussion with author Darin Strauss follows. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30pm, Free.

Friday 03/08: While most of the city’s literati head to Boston for AWP, Sam Lipsyte celebrates the release of his new story collection The Fun Parts [FSG] with a reading and a live set from Mike Doughty and a moderated discussion between the two. Le Poisson Rouge, 7:30pm, $12.*

* Noting my bias here. This event is presented by InDigest. Now you know.

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Dustin Luke Nelson is a founding editor of InDigest and the host of the InDigest Reading Series. He is a 2012 National Poetry Series finalist and has recently had work published in the Greying Ghost Pamphlet Series, Opium, METRO Twin Cities, Scud, 3:AM, and elsewhere. He has been a writer and producer on Radio Happy Hour and Geocachers. He lives in Astoria, tweets at @dlukenelson, and blogs at blogsareaboutego.blogspot.com.

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