Please join us on December 14, 2011 at the Green Lantern Gallery for short readings and performances by artists Sam Davis, Zach Dodson, Bryce Dwyer, R.E.H. Gordon, Joni Murphy, Anthony Romero, Jillian Soto, Samantha Topol, and Georgia Wall. The evenings presenters will address an array of subjects including but by no means limited to afterwords, Benjamin Franklin, Bohemian rhapsody, bone marrow , conclusions, dedications, forwards, indexes, the southwestern United States, tables of contents, unmade sculptures, and matters betwixt and between. … Read more

A free reading of poetry and prose featuring: Sophia Salveson Ewelina Wiszowata Ensueno Pabon Laura Figa Anthony Ladson Anna Castellanos Kira Scerbin Armani Harris Joey Werling Madee Miller Sofie Lachler-Johnson

A night of poetry in celebration of a book and its publisher. Welcome Chris Glomski’s The Nineteenth Century to the world and wish its publisher, The Cultural Society–personified by touring editor Zach Barocas–a happy tenth anniversary. Peter O’Leary, who’s Luminous Epinoia is also out with The Cultural Society, rounds out the (power) trio. Musician and poet, Zach Barocas, edits and publishes The Cultural Society and plays drums in BELLS≥. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, Kimberley Yurkiewicz. Chris … Read more

Movie Night is a celebration of B-movies, B-culture and heckling– equal parts “MST3K,” “Commander USA’s Groovie Movies” and snacks. Each feature film has its own non-competitive trivia challenge and commemorative fanzine, loaded with facts, photos an typos. NIGHTBEAST (1982). Directed by Don Dohler, shot in suburban Maryland on a budget of what looks like change found under couch cushions after not much searching, this thing is a gem. J.J. Abrams does the synth score. There is a long, gross sex … Read more

Jesse Seldess will read from his latest book, Left Having, and give a talk on his compositional process, under the working title of Inconstants and Variables. Jesse Seldess recently relocated to Brooklyn from Karlsruhe, Germany. He is the author of two books, Who Opens (Kenning Editions, 2006) and

What if it were rendered completely invisible? Then perhaps we might speak of the presence of spirits…and of necessary clandestinity. And what if it were to reappear sometime a sheer opposition to the unbreathing virtuality of a world which is always deferred, always someplace else, always fatal? Readings from All of Our Fathers Was Bank Robbers by Brian Wallace Sound by Sam Davis

The Green Lantern Press is pleased to announce the release of Kordian, the first ever English translation of a Polish play by Juliusz Słowacki. In honor of this book’s releases, actors Conrad Lawrence, Colin Henry Fewell, and Betty Lorkowski will perform a live reading of excerpts from the book. This even will be directed by Basia Kapolka and hosted by The [New] Corpse Space. Kordian is a Polish classic written in 1833 by Juliusz Słowacki and features an amalgam of … Read more

The Green Lantern Press is pleased to announce the release of its latest book, The Mutation of Fortune, a collection of short contemporary fables by Erica Walker Adams. On Saturday May 7th, 2011 at 6 PM four readers, Rowland Saifi, Jen Larson, Caroline Picard, and Names Divine will perform passages from or inspired by the book. The Mutation of Fortune documents the parallel fortunes of one protagonist living multiple lives. As she navigates her Märchen landscape, she goes through varied … Read more

Keston Sutherland teaches English literature and critical theory at the University of Sussex. He is editor of Quid and the Quid CD series and is currently editing the complete critical prose of J.H. Prynne. He has published numerous essays on poetics, politics and philosophy. Keston’s poetry has been translated into French, German, English and Chinese, appearing in anthologies, journals and newspapers across the high art marginalese diaspora. He has given readings all over the world and is thus thoroughly metropolitan. … Read more

August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1949, and raised in Fort Lee, New Jersey. For six years, he commuted everyday, from New Jersey to New York, to attend the Horace Mann School in the Bronx. After high school, he attended the University of Wisconsin as an East Asian Studies major. He dropped out of Wisconsin, and finished his studies at the University of Victoria in British Columbia where he majored in English and studied with Basil … Read more