June 23: Popsickle Literary Festival

Come join MetroRhythm at the Popsickle Literary Festival in Brooklyn, on Saturday, June 23 from 12-8pm at The Paper Box. Metro Rhythm is serving up two fantastic readers, Kelly Forsythe and Paul Legault, to the festival’s ranks. Spend your summer Saturday right at what is sure to be a sensational day of literary arts.

 

 

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Kelly Forsythe has poems published or forthcoming in The Minnesota Review, Black Warrior Review and Columbia Poetry Review. Her reviews appear in The Rumpus and Los Angeles Review. In the fall, Noelle Kocot introduced her in American Poet magazine as a 2011 Academy of American Poets “Emerging Poet.” She is the editor of Phantom Limb, an online literary journal, and works for Copper Canyon Press.

Paul Legualt is the co-founder of the translation press Telephone Books and the author of three books of poetry: The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010), The Other Poems (Fence, 2011), and The Emily Dickinson Reader (McSweeney’s, 2012). He is also the co-editor of The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare (Telephone/Nightboat, 2012), 154 poets’ “versions” of the bard’s own. Legault lives in Brooklyn, NY and works for the Academy of American Poets. He’s here.

Popsickle Festival on Saturday, July 23

Don’t forget to come see Metro Rhythm readers Julia Guez, Dorothea Lasky and Ben Pease at the Popsickle Festival this weekend!

Popsickle has been getting a lot of great press, and this promises to be a fantastic showing of Brooklyn’s literary scene. You won’t want to miss it.

Popsickle will be at the Gowanus Ballroom, at 55 9th Street in Brooklyn, on Saturday the 23rd, from 1-8pm.

We’ll see you there!

Your Poetry POPSICKLE Awaits You

It’s time to get ready for POPSICKLE!

POPSICKLE is a literary festival that brings together Brooklyn’s many reading series and small presses for one collectively-curated reading and book fair. And it’s now only weeks away.

When you come down to the Gowanus Ballroom on Saturday, July 23, you’ll get to see a host of great Brooklyn literary institutions– not to mention our own dazzling trio of readers: Dorothea Lasky, Julia Guez, and Ben Pease.

Readings will run from 1 to 8 pm, with music to follow. There will be food, drinks, and a raffle– in short, all kinds of summer fun! Add to that the fact that veteran Rhythmer Kirkwood Adams will be serving as the Metro Rhythm master of ceremonies, and you’ve got a icy-cool Saturday on your hands.

So, before it melts: July 23, 1-8, the Gowanus Ballroom (at 55 9th Street in Brooklyn). You can learn more here, RSVP here, and we’ll see you there.

Metro Rhythm at POPSICKLE Fest, 07.23.11

Popsickle

Guess we made a splash this year! In July, Metro Rhythm is curating three readers as part of Brooklyn’s POPSICKLE Festival. Our readers will include the “wonderful and talented” Dorothea Lasky, the “beautifully brilliant” (or was it “brilliantly beautiful”?) Julia Guez, plus one more reader still to be announced. It was very difficult to pick these folks out of all the fabulous writers who’ve read for us in the past, but we’re sure they’ll represent the series well.

The Festival will be held on Saturday, July 23rd from 4-7 PM at the Gowanus Ballroom in Brooklyn. Check back soon for updates on the full list of readers and events.

The entire POPSICKLE schedule will be available on their website, here.