Literary Firsts

Monday night’s reading was not to be missed. Dolan Morgan kicked us off with a surreal and hilarious excerpt from his recent collection, That’s When the Knives Come Down; Wesley Rothman shared some surprisingly sensual poems; Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich read a portion from her work-in-progress, featuring a slew of intriguingly dangerous characters; and Sam Cha read a delightfully masochistic confessional essay.

Just in case you couldn’t be there, you can still check out the photos below and the videos here.

Dolan Morgan reads from THAT’S WHEN THE KNIVES COME DOWN.

Wesley Rothman reads some poems.

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich reads from her work-in-progress.

Sam Cha reads his confessional essay.

A million thanks to the readers and everyone who came out. It was a fantastic evening and I can’t wait to see everyone in January!

Tonight’s the night!

Be there for Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Dolan Morgan, Wesley Rothman, and Sam Cha!

7pm at Middlesex Lounge!

Sam Cha is pretending incredulity.

Sam Cha recently completed his MFA in poetry at UMass Boston, where he was the 2011 and 2012 recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize. He’s a poetry editor for Radius. His work (poems, essays, fiction, translations) can be found at Amethyst Arsenic, anderbo, apt, ASIA, Banipal, The Bakery, decomP, Gravel, Memorious, Paper Scissors, Printer’s Devil Review, and shufPoetry. Also, in two anthologies: Knocking at the Door: Poems About Approaching the Other, and The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing. He lives and writes in Cambridge, MA.

Sam is the confessional reader for the October 13 reading.

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is whisperer to the wanderer and tamer of the misbegotten.

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, Iowa Review, Salon, Oxford American, Los Angeles Review, The Rumpus, TriQuarterly, and many other publications. Alexandria was recently named a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. She earned her JD at Harvard Law School, where she focused on death penalty issues, and she also holds a BA in Sociology from Columbia University and an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Emerson College. She lives in Boston and teaches at Grub Street and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Alexandria is the essayist for the October 13 reading.

Dolan Morgan is the space between mathematics and eros.

Dolan Morgan is the author of That’s When the Knives Come Down (Aforementioned Productions, 2014) and an editor at The Atlas Review. His work can be found in The Believer, The Lifted Brow, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, apt, Pank, Field, The Collagist and elsewhere.

Dolan is the fiction writer for the October 13 reading.

Wesley Rothman is a systematic series of chance encounters.

Wesley Rothman‘s poems and criticism have appeared in 32 Poems, Crab Orchard Review, New England Review, PANK, Post Road,Prairie Schooner, Southeast Review, Vinyl, and The White Review, among other publications. He has worked with Copper Canyon Press, the Mass Poetry Festival, Ploughshares, Narrative, Salamander, and Tupelo Quarterly, and teaches writing and cultural literatures throughout Boston. Recent honors include a Pushcart Prize nomination and a Vermont Studio Center fellowship. He is nearing completion of first collection of poems, SUBWOOFER.

Wesley is the poet for the October 13 reading.

I’m so excited for the next round of readers.

Can’t wait to see you there, Boston!