[New York]

Lighght Reading with Nathaniel Farrell, Leslie Allison & Doron Max Hagay
August 9, 2014, 7:00 pm
at IF/THEN

Join us for the third installment of Lighght Reading: Taking It to the Mountains! Lighght Reading occurs bi-monthly at a variety of locations in New York City and beyond; all events are free and open to the public. Limited-edition broadsides, letterpressed at the UDP studio, will accompany each reading.Readers:Leslie Allison is a writer and performer. She composes choral music for performance collaborations with Francis Weiss Rabkin, and is writing a chapbook of poetry, Martha Stewart (Spring 2015, Ugly Duckling Press). Her dance and poetry criticism can be found in HTML Giant and The Brooklyn Rail, and her band Cross released its debut album, It's Curtains, earlier this year.Doron Max Hagay is a filmmaker and artist living in Brooklyn.  He has made several short films that have played in numerous film festivals and art galleries across the country.  His film Perfect Thoughts, which had a release on 50 VHS tapes, was selected as NoBudge.com's 2013 film of the year.  He is currently in production on a web series called Monica, a fictionalized melodrama about Monica Lewinsky's life after she moved to Manhattan in 2001.  Some of his work can be viewed on his website www.doronmaxhagay.com.  Nathaniel Farrell, an educator and poet, was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania. He holds a doctorate in English Literature from Columbia University in New York. His chapbook The Race Poems—a take on race relations during the Iraq War and the Second Intifada—was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2005. Newcomer (UDP, 2014) is his first book, a long poem set in an undefined American-soil campaign. He has published poems in 6×6, Greetings Magazine, and The Recluse. He currently resides in St. Louis.