November 2nd 3pm — 8pm

Living room festival for Day of the Dead

We will open our space to celebrate their work and our LIVING FLAMES fed by it.

Come partake in Bibliomantic readings of the poetry and work of dear community such as ALICE NOTLEY, LYN HEJINIAN, RICHARD FOREMAN, STEPHANE BOUQUET, FANNY HOWE, EDMUND WHITE, MICHAEL BROWNSTEIN, KENWARD ELMSLIE, COLE HEINOWITZ, MEL NICHOLS and anyone you know and love! 

We celebrate life and love and the importance of art, music, books, creativity and play together as we celebrate with community musicians, priests and priestesses, Tony Torn, Lee Ann Brown, Beth Beth, Lucia Hinojosa Gaxiola, Diego Girard, Zoe Brezsny, Sarah Riggs, Lyndsay Turner, Ricardo Gallo of Los ALiENs, Franklin Bruno, Jennifer Scappettone, Paolo Javier, Drew Gardner, Hilma's Ghost and other surprise guests plus YOU!

To stoke the fires we will concurrently have a triple BOOK PARTY for these very special COMMUNITY COLLECTIONS!

JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE’s ten years in the making:

Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism (Columbia University Press, 2025) with new critical work on Etel Adnan, and Lyn Hejinian and others.

PAOLO JAVIER'S: new book NEAR YOUR MIRROR HOME (STAY ON) from (POETS OF QUEENS)

and DREW GARDNER'S anthology, INGENIOUS PLEASURES: An Anthology of Punk, Trash & Camp (University of New Mexico Press) 

https://www.unmpress.com/9780826364944/ingenious-pleasures/

Books Available for Sale!

Bring food, drink, photo, poems to read, collage, FLOWERS, a pillow and come read and listen to poetry and music together!

Please bring a MEMORY OBJECT and poems to offer for the altar

 Torn Page 435 West 22nd Street, NYC 10011