GREEN_SPACE returns to Chapin Parkway, a new series at Eugene V. Debs Hall

Tuesday, July 1, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Tuesday Night Open Mic Series at the Em Tea Coffeecup Café. All are welcome whether new to poetry or a long-time member of the community. 80 Oakgrove Ave., Buffalo, NY. Free and open to the public.

Wednesday, July 2, 7 p.m.: Ground and Sky Poetry Roundtable, informal reading and poetry discussion group led by Joel Lesses. Format is ‘no mic, no list, no podium,’ but an organic discussion of life and poetry. Inspiration Point, 483 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo. Free and open to the public. Program also available via Zoom. Contact http://www.educationtrainingcenterinc.com/ for the link.

Wednesday, July 2, 7:30 p.m.: CFI Literary Café Series reading hosted by poet Ryki Zuckerman. The format for July will be an open reading, with a sign-up sheet. Featured readers return to the series in September. Center for Inquiry, 1310 Sweet Home Rd. in Amherst. The event free and open to the public.

Sunday, 6 p.m.: GREEN_SPACE Series Reading curated by Joe Hall and featuring poets from The Greater Rust Belt Black & Red Poet Continuum including Amie Zimmerman from Troy, NY, Thom Eichelberger-Young and Mathilda Cullen from Buffalo, and Sara Lefsyk and Alexander Benedict from Cleveland.

About the poets:

Amie Zimmerman is from Portland, Oregon. Her work has been published in Annulet, Denver Quarterly, Protean, and Lana Turner, among others. She is the author of four chapbooks and her first full-length collection, False Spring, is out with Roof Books next spring. Amie works as a hair stylist, labor organizer, and PhD candidate. Alongside Matthew Klane and Hajar Hussaini, she co-curates the reading and performance series Salon Salvage in Troy, NY.

Thom Eichelberger-Young is a text artist, political theorist, former mental health caregiver, publisher, editor, and PhD student living in Buffalo, NY. In 2021, they started Blue Bag Press, where they operate digital journals, an archive of innovative writing, and publish a series of chapbooks. Thom’s recent books include ANTIKYTHERA, poems out from Antiphony Press, and OINTMENT WEATHER: Insurgent Poetics for Desperate Times, essays out from CLOAK. A follow up poetic sequence, DAY(S), will appear this fall from Dead Mall Press. Their poems and essays have otherwise appeared widely or are forthcoming in such venues as Brink, Fence, Bombay Gin, Mantis, Noir Sauna, Mercury Firs, Transat, DATABLEED and No Placebos.

Mathilda Cullen is a poet and translator. Her published works include Stanzas for Four Hands: An Ophanim with Dominick Knowles, Illyric Elegies, a Belladonna* chaplet, and Vormorgen: The Collected Poems of Ernst Toller. Her poetics revolves around dissociatia, associations, and frenetics, while her translations typically focus on queer writers from East Germany.

Sara Lefsyk is head Ethel of Ethel Zine & Micro Press. She has a book, We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds (Black Lawrence Press, 2017) and a receipt: I draw a fake effigy. “Who let us into hell?” It says. (betweenthehighway).

Alexander Benedict operates offset presses for a living in Cleveland, Ohio and prints receipts for betweenthehighway press. He is writing a biography on Cleveland poet and publisher d.a. levy. A couple books: Fragments of a Mirrored-Voice (Above / Ground) and OFFHANDEDLY (Ethel Zine) Some essays: “waste is a form of devotion” (Community Mausoleum) and “From Requiems to Elegies” (Periodicities).

Readers will have books for sale. GREEN__SPACE also have some table space for lit/zine swap if you’ve got publications you want to give away or share.

Location: Chapin Parkway, between Potomac & Delavan.
Hang out in the grass or bring a lawn chair, blanket, or other surface
(In case of very bad weather, alternative location announced day of event.)

Sunday, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.: Beats, Brews and Prose, a new open mic poetry and prose series hosted by Juniper, Fawn, Rose, and Morticia on the third Sunday of each month at Eugene V. Debs Hall, 483 Peckham St. in Buffalo.