Brooklyn reading series usual suspect, Stain of Poetry, has recruited a cunning team for this Friday evening at Goodbye Blue Monday. All five readers on the line up have recent releases or new titles forthcoming, and the reading’s double life revels in “poet-ghost” Dan Mager’s full-length debut, Partyknife (Birds, LLC), with cover art by Matt Bollinger.

Complicit parties include:

Lauren Hunter, prepared to take responsibility with My Own Fires (Brothel Books).

Kendra Grant Malone insisting Everything is Quiet (Scrambler Books) before she and Matthew Savoca go to their happy-place in Morocco (Dark Sky Books).

Jenny Zhang gathering herself with Dear Jenny, We Are All Find (Octopus Books).

Try your defenses on the pros 7pm this Friday at Goodbye Blue Monday.

–Stephanie Ann Whited