Make sure you are here! (And be sure to buy the lovely book if you have not already done so.) I’ve never been to a book release party so I am looking forward to a great night. The more time I spend getting to know Caits, the more I am inspired by her work and her spirit. It will be an great night full of poetry and good times. I will be there meeting new folks and shooting stills. Be there! wellandoftenpress: A night of poetry and music to celebrate the publication of The Letter All Your Friends Have Written You, the debut poetry collection from Caits Meissner and Tishon mingling classic themes of love and war with pointed ruminations on mixtapes and growing up with The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Caits Meissner and Tishon are two emerging writers living in New York City. The Letter All Your Friends Have Written You, this vibrant collection of poems, marks their first collaborative book. Though the writers speak different tongues, they’ve managed to put together a collection that’s resonant and harmonious. Tishon writes a moving tribute to a childhood friend lost to gun violence in contrast to a dry rumination on art and sexuality under the gaze of Vincent Van Gogh. Caits laments her angsty pink-haired teenage years in one poem, in another converses with a fictionalized Mavis Staples about lost love. Mingling classic themes of love and war with pointed ruminations on mixtapes and growing up with The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, this book adds two new voices to modern American poetry. For more information visit http://www.wellandoftenpress.com Also performing: muMs and Aurora: folk music’s answer to hip hop. Award-winning poet (you may have seen him on the TV show Oz) and honey-voiced singer create a beautiful, moving combination of poem and song. Safia Elhillo: A young, inspired Sudanese poet. Member of the NYU slam team and the 7th ranked woman slam poet in the world. Elana Bell: Magical poet Elana Bell is the writer-in-residence at the Bronx Academy of Letters. Her manuscript, Eyes, Stones, was selected by Fanny Howe as the winner of the 2011 Walt Whitman Award, and will be published by Louisiana State University Press in 2012. Ocean Vuong: Author of the chapbook Burnings, Ocean was a semi-finalist for the 2011 Crab Orchard Series First Book Award. Recipient an Academy of American Poets award, the Connecticut Poetry Society’s Al Savard Award, as well as four Pushcart Prize nominations. Katie Mullins weaves folk, experimental and classical influences into her distinctive original songs. Her debut album, Pastoral, is a collection of love songs written about and within Berlin and New York. Deidre (of Savoir Adore): One half of Brooklyn-based Savoir Adore, the self-coined “fantasy rock” duo, signed to the Cantora label — home of the likeminded neo-psychedelic group MGMT— Deidre joins us with acoustic versions of her own work!

Make sure you are here! (And be sure to buy the lovely book if you have not already done so.) I’ve never been to a book release party so I am looking forward to a great night. The more time I spend getting to know Caits, the more I am inspired by her work and her spirit. It will be an great night full of poetry and good times. I will be there meeting new folks and shooting stills. Be there!

wellandoftenpress:

A night of poetry and music to celebrate the publication of The Letter All Your Friends Have Written You, the debut poetry collection from Caits Meissner and Tishon mingling classic themes of love and war with pointed ruminations on mixtapes and growing up with The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Caits Meissner and Tishon are two emerging writers living in New York City. The Letter All Your Friends Have Written You, this vibrant collection of poems, marks their first collaborative book. Though the writers speak different tongues, they’ve managed to put together a collection that’s resonant and harmonious. Tishon writes a moving tribute to a childhood friend lost to gun violence in contrast to a dry rumination on art and sexuality under the gaze of Vincent Van Gogh. Caits laments her angsty pink-haired teenage years in one poem, in another converses with a fictionalized Mavis Staples about lost love. Mingling classic themes of love and war with pointed ruminations on mixtapes and growing up with The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, this book adds two new voices to modern American poetry.

For more information visit http://www.wellandoftenpress.com

Also performing:


muMs and Aurora: folk music’s answer to hip hop. Award-winning poet (you may have seen him on the TV show Oz) and honey-voiced singer create a beautiful, moving combination of poem and song.




Safia Elhillo: A young, inspired Sudanese poet. Member of the NYU slam team and the 7th ranked woman slam poet in the world.

Elana Bell: Magical poet Elana Bell is the writer-in-residence at the Bronx Academy of Letters. Her manuscript, Eyes, Stones, was selected by Fanny Howe as the winner of the 2011 Walt Whitman Award, and will be published by Louisiana State University Press in 2012.


Ocean Vuong: Author of the chapbook Burnings, Ocean was a semi-finalist for the 2011 Crab Orchard Series First Book Award. Recipient an Academy of American Poets award, the Connecticut Poetry Society’s Al Savard Award, as well as four Pushcart Prize nominations.

Katie Mullins weaves folk, experimental and classical influences into her distinctive original songs. Her debut album, Pastoral, is a collection of love songs written about and within Berlin and New York.




Deidre (of Savoir Adore): One half of Brooklyn-based Savoir Adore, the self-coined “fantasy rock” duo, signed to the Cantora label — home of the likeminded neo-psychedelic group MGMT— Deidre joins us with acoustic versions of her own work!

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    tomorrow :). which...say, see you tomorrow- right?
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    Make sure you are here! (And be sure to buy the lovely book if you have not already done so.) I’ve never been to a book...
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    see you there, right?
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    I will be there with my cameras, documenting. Excited. This will be a magical evening.
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    catch me front row.
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