BGSQD presents: Double Take Poetry Reading (in person only)

Please join us for a poetry reading with Paloma Yannakakis, Izzy Casey, and Amy Klein to celebrate the release of Double Take. Between arrival and disappearance, between the longed-for and the long forgotten, what remains intact across time? Parsing the distance ‘in all directions’ and taking inventory, this collection explores states of exile and recognition. The poems move across quotidian public squares, the memory of lost homelands, and pastoral landscapes.

Copies of Paloma Yannakakis‘s Double Take will be available for purchase.

PLEASE NOTE: THE CENTER WILL NOT OPEN UNTIL 5 PM ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH, IN OBSERVANCE OF VETERANS DAY. THE BUREAU WILL OPEN AT 5 PM AND WILL REMAIN OPEN FOR THIS EVENT, WHICH WILL BEGIN AT 7 PM.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served. Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. All are welcome to attend, with or without donation. We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd

Paloma Yannakakis’ poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Lana Turner, Washington Square, Afternoon Visitor, and elsewhere, and are forthcoming in various anthologies. She is the author of the chapbook, Double Take. She serves on the editorial board of House Mountain Review and enjoys collaborating with artists in other media.

Izzy Casey’s poems have been published in or Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, BOAAT, Bennington Review, the Volta, the Yale Review, the Columbia Review, NY Tyrant, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was the recipient of a fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.

Amy Klein is a poet, writer, and songwriter. Her poetry has appeared in Prelude, Salt Hill, and the Harvard Advocate, and she is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her essays and journalism have been published in The Believer and the Best Music Writing book series and have been highlighted as essential reading by NPR. She has released three albums of original songs on the punk label Don Giovanni Records and performs regularly with her band AK & the Hallucinations.