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By all accounts, the First Annual New York Poetry Festival was a huge success. With perfect weather, three stages, and over a hundred poets and performers, Governor’s Island proved the perfect venue for two straight days of verse.

Please check out our video footage of day one below, featuring a handful of readings by poets Ben Pease, Coldfront’s own Melinda Wilson, Timothy Donnelly, Farrah Field, Claire Donato, Yusef Komunyakaa and more. Thanks again to Stephanie Berger and Nicholas Adamski of The Poetry Brothel for organizing the event. Can’t wait until next year!

Video by DJ Dolack

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Tourist Trap, NYC is a web video series that follows touring poets to some of New York’s top tourist destinations, as well as lesser known bars, reading venues and unheralded back streets. Each episode features one or two poets as they explore the city and discuss their work, how urban landscapes influence their writing, the history or importance of landmark they’ve chosen to visit, as well as anything they might deem relevant along the way. Each episode culminates with a short reading at their destination of choice. Author photo by Shelton Walsmith.

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Sommer Browning writes poems, draws comics and tells jokes. She is the author of Either Way I’m Celebrating (Birds, LLC, 2011), a collection of poems and comics, and three chapbooks, most recently THE BOWLING (Greying Ghost, 2010) with Brandon Shimoda. Her poems and drawings have appeared in The New York Quarterly, Typo, Octopus, past simple, Free Verse, The Stranger and other places. With Julia Cohen she curates The Bad Shadow Affair, a reading series in Denver.

Tourist Trap, NYC is produced by Eye For An Iris Press and Coldfront. Email ttrapnyc@gmail.com for more information.

Next Episode: Matt Henriksen & Brandon Shimoda. Stay tuned!

Watch previous episodes here.

Tourist Trap, NYC is a web video series that follows touring poets to some of New York’s top tourist destinations, as well as lesser known bars, reading venues and unheralded back streets. Each episode features one or two poets as they explore the city and discuss their work, how urban landscapes influence their writing, the history or importance of landmark they’ve chosen to visit, as well as anything they might deem relevant along the way. Each episode culminates with a short reading at their destination of choice.

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Christopher Salerno’s books include Minimum Heroic (Mississippi Review Poetry Series, 2010), and Whirligig (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing House, 2006). A chapbook, ATM is available from Horse Less Press. New or recent poems can be found in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Jubilat, Jacket, American Letters and Commentary, Laurel Review, and others. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University in New Jersey, and is managing editor of a new journal, Map Literary. He lives in Bridgewater, NJ and Cary, NC. 

Tourist Trap, NYC is produced by Eye For An Iris Press and Coldfront. Email ttrapnyc@gmail.com for more information.

Next Episode: Sommer Browning. Stay tuned!

Watch previous episodes here.

Below you will find our video coverage of the The January 28 installment of the Stain of Poetry Reading Series featuring Birds, LLC poets. Video coverage by DJ Dolack features Dan Boehl, Sommer Browning, Emily Pettit, Steven Karl, Justin Marks, Christie Ann Reynolds, Sampson Starkweather and Chris Tonelli.

Birds, LLC is an independent poetry press based out of Austin, Minneapolis, New York, and Raleigh. The January reading was held in part to celebrate the release of two new titles, Sommer Browning’s Either Way I’m Celebrating and Dan Boehl’s The Kings of the F**king Sea, with images by Jonathan Marshall.

Video filmed and edited by DJ Dolack. (Watch it in HD!)

Polestar Reading Series, curated by Melissa Broder, teamed up with We Who Are About To Die to host a reading on Sunday, January 30th at Bruar Falls in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  The event featured DJ Jason Diamond and the following readers: Marisa Crawford, Matthew L. Rohrer,  Nate Pritts, Melissa Stein, Craig Morgan Teicher, and  Andrew James Weatherhead.

Marisa Crawford’s debut book, The Haunted House, was released in 2010 by Switchback Books. Here’s her set-list:

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