Tuesday, Sep 4 - Back Room
Hatchet Job

Tuesday, Sep 4
7:00 pm in the Back Room

FREE / 21+

Hatchet Job is a monthly reading series in which poets of all persuasions whipsaw the robber barons and read in a black room with alcohol. It's free, even when you're not. Same is not true for the hooch.

Friends, join us for Hatchet Job IX, and say hello once again to Fall.

Matthew Zingg's work appears in The Awl, Cider Press Review, The Rumpus, The Madison Review, and Opium Magazine, among others. He received his MFA in poetry from Adelphi University and is a co-founding member of 1441, a writers collect ive.

Cathy Park Hong is the author of Translating Mo'um, Dance Dance Revolution, and Engine Empire. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a NYFA Fellowship, and a Village Voice Fellowship for Minority Reporters.

Matvei Yankelevich is the author of Boris by the Sea, The Present Work, Writing in the Margin, and Alpha Donut. His translations from Russian have cropped up in Calque, Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, Poetry, and the New Yorker and in some anthologies, including OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism and Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky.

Sarah Manguso is the author, most recently, of The Guardians. Her previous books include a memoir, The Two Kinds of Decay, the story collection Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, published as one of three volumes in McSweeney’s One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box, and the poetry collections Siste Viator and The Captain Lands in Paradise.

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