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October 2018
&NOW Festival 2018 (Notre Dame, IN)
Saturday, October 10 at 9:00 p.m. Location: 102 DeBartolo Hall Counter-Desecration: Critical Making for Catastrophic Times In catastrophic times, new collectivies emerge & respond. The issue of intervention into the dominant and destructive narratives of progress that rule our age is taken up in Anna Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World, where she envisions collaboration as a means of reimagining and remaking the future. Her emphasis on biological resurgence compels us to consider how we might reorganize…
Find out more »Reading at KGB Monday Night Poetry (New York, NY)
Shanna Compton with Ron Villanueva For twenty years and counting, the Monday night poetry series at KGB Bar has welcomed poets and drawn standing-room only audiences into the dimly lit, red-painted lounge that formerly served as the headquarters of the Ukrainian Labor Home. "In the years since it opened in 1993, KGB has become something of a New York literary institution. Writers hooked up in the publishing world read here with pleasure and without pay to an adoring public over drinks almost…
Find out more »March 2019
Reading and Q&A at Feminist Currents Symposium (Newtown, PA)
Three poets publishing with the NJ-based independent press Bloof Books read from their work, followed by a book signing and Q&A on the intersections of feminism, literary arts, and small-press publishing. Featuring Jennifer L. Knox (Days of Shame & Failure), Nikki Wallschaleger (Crawlspace), and Shanna Compton (Brink).
Find out more »April 2019
New Orleans Poetry Festival (New Orleans, LA)
Shanna will be representing Bloof Books a the festival bookfair on Saturday and Sunday. Bloof Books will be showcasing our full catalog of poetry paperbacks, handmade chapbooks, and other printed ephemera—including new releases by Nikki Wallschlaeger, Catie Rosemurgy, Ginger Ko, and broadsides printed exclusively for the NOLA festival. Several of our poets will also be on hand for events throughout the festival, including Elisabeth Workman, Danielle Pafunda, Ginger Ko, K. Lorraine Graham, Maureen Thorson, Shanna Compton, and others. We'll probably be sewing chapbooks or making…
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