BANG OUT Volume XIII: Meditations in an Emergency
For the fourth year and counting, BANG OUT Reading Series was a part of the legendary Litquake Lit Crawl!
On October 15th during Phase 2 (7:15-8:15pm) of Lit Crawl at the Beauty Bar, writers Marisa Crawford, Matt L. Rohrer, Lizzy Acker and Ryan Van Winkle read fresh new work on the theme “Meditations in an Emergency.”
Marisa Crawford is the author of The Haunted House from the feminist poetry press Switchback Books. Her poems have recently appeared in Bone Bouquet, Columbia Poetry Review and Black Clock. She is an editor of Small Desk Press and lives in Brooklyn where she works as a freelance writer. Find her work online at marisacrawfordforever.com.
Matt L. Rohrer is the author of Probability of Dependent Events from Beard of Bees Press, and has had work published in Tinfish, Skein, The Surfer’s Journal and more. He is the editor-in-chief of Small Desk Press.
Lizzy Acker’s first book, Monster Party, was released in December 2010 by Small Desk Press. She was born in Oregon but now lives in San Francisco.
Ryan Van Winkle has been Reader in Residence at the Scottish Poetry Library and the Edinburgh City Libraries since 2008. His first collection of poems, Tomorrow, We Will Live Here, was published in 2010. His work has appeared in New Writing Scotland, The American Poetry Review, AGNI and Northwords Now and The Oxford Poet series. He lives in Edinburgh but is still an American (and he says ‘Tomato’ that way).