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Why don’t you head on over to Suburbia and click follow, which allows you the esteemed privilege of following Suburbia, which is now home to the Hatchet Job poetry series. While you’re there, check out these shots of Hatchet Job XV at the new venue, courtesy of Emmanuel Villanueva Cruz. Doesn’t it all just make you want to put your feet up and hear some poetry in June? Stay tuned, renegades. Stay tuned.
Hatchet Job starts a beautiful new life tonight at Suburbia, with Susan Wheeler, Brian Foley, Lindsay Kathleen Turner, and special guest Mark Leidner. Because sometimes you need a special guest to come read and celebrate a new venture and Mark’s like yeah I’ll celebrate that. It all starts at 7:30PM. Let’s raise all the glasses, shall we.
One day the men with the money will bang on your door and say we want to make money. You’ve given us fourteen months of good, hearty work now we want your work to make money. We want the room in which you work to make money. We want your money to make money. These are the words the men spoke to me when they banged on my door. And so ended Hatchet Job’s run of poetry readings at Public Assembly.
And now the people sing: what will a poetry series do for a home?
It will call its home Suburbia. It will stride back into the basement where it was born. It will let you the read the poems you came there to read. It will never argue for time. It will sell the booze low how it should be in Brooklyn. I’ve said it each month and I’ll say it again: Hatchet Job will never cost money.
Suburbia is a DIY punk venue and Hatchet Job is a DIY poetry series and now we are married.
Hatchet Job XV is next Tuesday, May 7, from 7:30-9:30PM and it’s our first reading at Suburbia. Join Susan Wheeler, Brian Foley, Kathleen Turner, and a very special guest, and let’s throw the after party at our venue, where we work, and let’s cheers to art that won’t take money for an answer.
From far and wide they come with hatchets glinting. On May 7, at Public Assembly, Lindsay Turner, Brian Foley, and Susan Wheeler are coming from Tennessee, Massachusetts, and the doomswamps of New Jersey to plunge into some poems. 7PM begins the cork-popping.
Hatchet Job can’t be certain, but Hatchet Job has heard April is a month where people try to turn poetry into a dog and pony show. You know what will always demolish that? Poetry.
April 2nd, 7-9pm at Public Assembly, come see Joe DeLuca, Amy Lawless, Sampson Starkweather, and Dara Wier.
And if you think this flier is about you, it is.
Year of the snake is upon us, Hatchet Job is upon us. Join us on February 5th at Public Assembly to hear poems and poems and poems by Deborah Landau, Lynn Melnick, D.J. Dolack, and Simone Kearney.
For Hatchet Job’s one-year anniversary, eleven poets who read during the first year are coming back. They’re going to read poems they love by other poets. It’s gonna be a real old fashioned runaway freight train kind of party. It all happens on January 8th, 7PM, at Public Assembly.
And who’s reading, you ask? Why, just these mercenaries:
Mark Bibbins, Ana Bozicevic, Melissa Broder, Corina Copp, Timothy Donnelly, Mark Leidner, Dan Magers, Anna Moschovakis, Allyson Paty, Ariana Reines, Sampson Starkweather.
If the world don’t end in three days, this will finish the job.
Here’s a list, in order, of every poet who read at Hatchet Job during its first year. I get a sharp pulse when I read all these names. This week I’ll make a special announcement about the one-year anniversary reading in January. So don’t turn off your ham radios.
Year One:
Lily Ladewig
Angelo Nikolopoulous
Craig Teicher
Tim Donnelly
Monica McClure
Ben Fama
Brenda Shaughnessy
Eileen Myles
Allyson Paty
Mark Leidner
Ariana Reines
Michael Dickman
Carter Edwards
Kathleen Ossip
CA Conrad
Sophia Le Fraga
Jennifer Tamayo
Dan Magers
Jon Leon
Guy Petitt
Rachel B. Glaser
Jenny Zhang
Anna North
Lisa Ciccarello
Sampson Starkweather
Linda Besner
Melissa Broder
Paul Legault
Monica Ferrell
Joseph Fasano
Christopher DeWeese
Ana Bozicevic
Mark Bibbins
Matthew Zingg
Cathy Park Hong
Matvei Yankelevich
Sarah Manguso
Genya Turovskaya
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Anna Moschovakis
Heather Christle
Sandra Liu
Ken Chen
Cate Marvin
Corinna Copp
Peter Gizzi
Charles Bernstein
Hatchet Job puts a candle on the birthday cake tomorrow night, 7PM at Public Assembly, with Corinna Copp, Peter Gizzi, and Charles Bernstein. Won’t you come say cheers?
One week after election day, join poets Sandra Liu, Ken Chen, Cate Marvin, and Thomas Sayers Ellis for a night of pumpkin smashing at Hatchet Job XI. It’s happening on 11/13 at 7PM at Public Assembly in Brooklyn. No matter who’s president it will be cause for a boozin’.
