Hatchet Job joins forces with Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan to begin a new series of quarterly HJ programming to compliment the free, DIY events in Brooklyn that have been wreaking havoc for years.
Popping the cork on our first event at Bowery Poetry will be Rebecca Wolff, R. Erica Doyle, and Wendy Xu.
THIS ONE'S TICKETED!
$8 advance
$10 day-of at the door
Rebecca Wolff is the author of four collections of poetry, one novel, and numerous pieces of occasional prose. Her first book, Manderle...
Hatchet Job joins forces with Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan to begin a new series of quarterly HJ programming to compliment the free, DIY events in Brooklyn that have been wreaking havoc for years.
Popping the cork on our first event at Bowery Poetry will be Rebecca Wolff, R. Erica Doyle, and Wendy Xu.
THIS ONE'S TICKETED!
$8 advance
$10 day-of at the door
Rebecca Wolff is the author of four collections of poetry, one novel, and numerous pieces of occasional prose. Her first book, Manderley, was selected for the National Poetry Series by Robert Pinsky. Her second, Figment, was selected for the Barnard Women Poets Prize by Claudia Rankine and Eavan Boland. Her third, The King, was published by W. W. Norton in 2009. Her novel The Beginners was published by Riverhead in 2011. Most recently, One Morning— was published by Wave Books in 2015. In 1998, Wolff founded the influential literary journal Fence.
r. erica doyle was born in Brooklyn to Trinidadian immigrant parents, and has lived in Washington, DC, Farmington, Connecticut and La Marsa, Tunisia. She is the author of Proxy, winner of the Norma Farber Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Gay and Lesbian Writing from the Antilles, Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade and Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing.
Wendy Xu is the author of You Are Not Dead, a full-length collection from Cleveland State University Poetry Center (2013), and the recipient of a 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She is also the author of the chapbooks The Hero Poems (H_NGM_N), Phrasis (Black Cake Records), Naturalism (Brooklyn Arts Press, forthcoming 2015), and I Was Not Even Born (Coconut Books, co-authored with Nick Sturm). Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Poetry, Boston Review, Guernica, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, Hyperallergic, The Volta, and widely elsewhere.