I’m really excited to join Arisa White, Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Shelly Oria, Mike Fu, Clifford Thompson, and Matthew Aaron Goodman for a round of micro-readings. Two readings will be related to tattoos inked someplace on the readers’ bodies and the rest will be a big fat literary lie. The first audience member to correctly guess the two real tats correctly wins copies of each authors’ latest books. This reading is a part of PEN America/Lit Crawl & should be a really fun night!

Please join me in celebrating authors from Augury Books, Noemi Press & Belladonna* at our offsite reading! There will be readings by Augury authors t’ai freedom ford, Arisa White and Alicia Jo Rabins, as well as Samuel Ace, Caroline Crumpacker, Grace Ungrateful, Jessica Rae Bergamino and Sara Borjas. Light refreshments will be served and books available for purchase!

I’m delighted to be taking part in this nation-wide Indie Author Day celebration. From 2-3:30 I will be giving a workshop on publishing, covering the ins and outs of how to find an audience for your work as well as how to approach publishers. There will be a Q & A section as well so please bring questions!

I’m really delighted to be reading with Jason Phoebe Rusch, Rushi Vyas, and Adeeba Talukder and Joanna Valente at Unnameable Books to celebrate the launch of Jason’s wonderful debut collection “Dualities.” Doors open at 7:30 & the reading begins at 8.

It is my great pleasure to host a special edition of Pen and Brush Presents, the reading series that I founded. This special edition serves as a tribute to June Jordan's work and is also a belated launch party for Alice James Books' "We're On: A June Jordan Reader." Readers for the event include: Elizabeth Alexander, Mahogany L. Browne, Cheryl Clarke, Cornelius Eady, Terrance Hayes, Yusef Komunyakaa and E. Ethelbert Miller. It is an honor to introduce these readers as they share June Jordan's words with our audience. 

I'm looking forward very much to reading as part of Ashley Hall's Visiting Writer's series. The event is free and open to the public and will take place on campus at Ashley Hall's Recital Hall. 

I'm so pleased to be reading, along with the other Elizabeth Kostova Foundation Creative Nonfiction Fellows, at this International Literary Performance in Sofia, Bulgaria. Other readers include Akwaeke Emezi (Nigeria / USA), Ana Blagova (Bulgaria), Galina Nikolova (Bulgaria), Jacqueline Moyer (USA), Evan James (USA), Chris Fenton (UK / Bulgaria), Petya Nakova (Bulgaria) and Svilen Georgiev (Bulgaria). The reading will be in both Bulgarian and English with translations projected on screen behind the readers. If you happen, by some wild chance, to be in Bulgaria, come by!

I'm very happy to read at this celebration of the Mayapple Center for Arts and Humanities, where I serve as the Advisory Board member for Creative Writing. I will be reading alongside inaugural faculty member Vijay Seshadri and current faculty Mohammed Naseehu Ali, as well as some of our Mayapple Center Creative Writing alums! Please join us for poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as mingling and wine. 

I'm really looking forward to being the featured reader for the Queens Central Library Open Mic program. Come hear me read and sign up to read along with me at the Open Mic part of the event! The event will be held in the library's auditorium.

I'm excited to be reading as part of the Ashley Hall "Visiting Writers" series. If you happen to be in Charleston, SC, please swing by!

I'm delighted to be reading as a guest of my beloved alma mater, Interlochen Arts Academy. Reading will take place in the Creative Writing House with a Q&A to follow. 

I'm excited to be reading at KGB Bar for Behind the Book with Teddy Wayne (Loner, Kapitoil, and The Love Song of Jonny Valentine) and Maris Kreizman (Slaughterhouse 90210). Behind the Book is a literacy nonprofit that gets kids excited about reading by connecting them with contemporary writers and illustrators. Since their founding, they have worked with nearly 13,000 students and donated more than 18,000 books to students and school libraries.  

I'm really looking forward to reading with Monica Wendel, Jay Deshpande, and Tracy May Fuad at Allison Geller and Melissa Ahart's poetry series at Roots Cafe in South Slope, Brooklyn. 

I'll be reading with Angela Woodward (End of the Fire Cult), E.J. Levy (Love, In Theory) and Jonathan Lee (High Dive) for the Yeah You Write reading series at Bo's Kitchen & Bar. 

#YYW is an evening of author readings & literary cocktails, dining & book signing, boozing & schmoozing. Books available for sale. Late Night Mic for the first ten guests who sign up and attend the author readings. Reservations suggested—please specify #YeahYouWrite. Call Bo's Kitchen & Bar at 212.234.2373 or email info@bosrestaurant.com

I'm really happy to be reading at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop with Joe Pan (Hiccups, Augury Books 2015) and Megan Levad (Why We Live in the Dark Ages, Tavern Books, 2016). Note: for all you Berl's aficionados, this reading will be taking place at their new space--right across the street from the old location! 

I'm excited to be reading along with other folks (TBD) for The New School After Hours reading series at KGB Bar.

I'll be reading from So Late to the Party and leading a craft discussion. Audience members are also welcome to share favorite poems. 

Please help me celebrate the launch for So Late to the Party on May 6th.

There will be brief readings from:
—Randall Horton (Hook)
—Alison Espach (The Adults)
—Shelly Oria (New York 1, Tel Aviv 0)
—Kate Angus (So Late to the Party)

Wine and refreshments (both sweet and savory) will be served. There will be socializing, chitchat, spontaneous gestures of affection, and discussions of things close to and/or far from our hearts. Advance copies of So Late to the Party will be available for purchase. The launch will take place at Pen and Brush's gallery on 29 East 22nd Street between Broadway and Park Avenue between 7-8:30; after-party location TBD. 

 

I'll be reading with the brilliant Geoffrey Nutter (Christopher Sunset, The Rose of January, and the forthcoming Cities at Dawn) for Melinda Wilson's Poor Mouth Poetry reading series up in Riverdale. 

This is Take Two of the official New York launch for my friend Alicia Jo Rabins' Divinity School (winner of the 2015 Honickman First Book Prize), rescheduled after January's blizzard. I'll be reading with Alicia, as will Augury Books' poets Joe Pan (Hiccups) and Frances Justine Post (Beast).

October 2015 marked the launch of Pen and Brush’s publishing imprint, when we released two ebooks, a short story, and a collection of debut poetry by writer and artist Lauren Amalia Redding. Join us for an evening of conversation between Lauren Redding, a working writer/artist, and Kate Angus, a working editor/teacher who curated the work for Pen and Brush, as they discuss their experience making a career as women in the arts.

The official New York launch of Alicia Jo Rabin’s debut collection Divinity School, winner of the APR / Honickman First Book Prize. Alicia will be reading with Augury Books’ poets Joe Pan (Hiccups) and Frances Justine Post (Beast), as well as Augury Books Founding Editor Kate Angus.