Reading November 11th at 7:30PM

Hello southern writing friends,

If April is the cruelest month, then November is the most joyous. Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, and of course the Southern Writers Reading Series…what more could one ask for in 30 days?

Please come out to Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome between Forsyth & Eldridge, for a wonderful evening with four talented poets who will bring the joy (and a little pain) to the mic.

Farrah Field’s poems have appeared in many publications including the Mississippi Review, Typo, Harp & Altar, La Petite Zine, Eklesographia, Effing Magazine, and are forthcoming in Ploughshares. Rising, her first book of poems won Four Way Books’ 2007 Levis Prize. She lives in Brooklyn and blogs at adultish.blogspot.com.

Hallie S. Hobson is a poet, playwright and Cave Canem Fellow. She has been featured poet at the LouderArts Project reading series, the Brooklyn Museum and the Bryant Park Reading Room. Her theatrical works have been workshopped and presented at Brava! Theatre for Women in the Arts, the Mark Taper Forum Blacksmyths Writers’ Lab, and A.S.K. Theatre Projects, among other venues. She also works as a fundraiser for The Museum of Modern Art. Hallie received her bachelor’s degree from Yale and an MFA in playwriting from UCLA. Though she currently resides in Harlem, she will always be a Georgia Peach.

Rickey Laurentiis is a Cave Canem fellow whose poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in several journals, including Knockout Magazine, Mythium: The Journal of Contemporary Literature, and DIAGRAM. His poems have most recently placed as first and third runner-up in the 2009 International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize, selected by Carl Phillips. He is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, but now studies as an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Of his many obsessions, the most dominant is water.

Nicole Sealey is a writer, editor and Cave Canem fellow. Her interviews with writers Sapphire, DJ Spooky and Nikki Giovanni can be found in Artists and Influence: Volume XXV, Studio and Mosaic literary magazine, respectively. Her poems can be found in print and online journals including Callaloo and Torch. Nicole holds a Master of Liberal Arts degree in Africana Studies from the University of South Florida and is the Readings/Workshops and Writers Exchange Program Manager at Poets & Writers, Inc. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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