#joykatz

"It has to do with power—power is at play in this poem. I am far from being a power-hungry person, but where is the line between helpfulness and manipulation? That question seemed the burning center of the writing." Read Joy Katz' poem and more of her thoughts on it here. 

Tonight, Tuesday, May 27, at 8 pm, Joy Katz (All You Do Is Perceive) will be reading with Michele Battiste, Leslie Anne McIlroy and Lauren Shapiro for Hemingway’s Reading Series at Hemingway’s Cafe (3911 Forbes Ave.) in Pittsburgh, PA. 

On Tuesday, May 27, at 7 pm, Joy Katz (All You Do Is Perceive) will be reading with Michele Battiste, Leslie Anne McIlroy and Lauren Shapiro for Hemingway’s Reading Series at Hemingway’s Cafe (3911 Forbes Ave.) in Pittsburgh, PA. 

All You Do Is Perceive is available from Four Way Books. 

On Thursday, May 29, at 7 pm, Victoria Redel (Make Me Do Things) will be reading with Daphne Kalotay at Newtonville Books (10 Langley Road) in Newton Centre, Newton, MA. 

Make Me Do Things is available from Four Way Books. 

Also on Thursday, May 29, at 7 pm, Kamilah Aisha Moon (She Has a Name) will read with Michael Klein, Angelo Nikolopoulos, Ana Bozicevic, David Groff, R. Erica Doyle and Sophie Cabot Black for the 2014 Lambda Literary Finalists Reading at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop (owned by Four Way Books author Farrah Field (Wolf and Pilot) and her husband, poet Jared White) (126A Front Street) in Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY. 

She Has a Name and Wolf and Pilot are available from Four Way Books. 

On Saturday, May 31, at 7 pm, Brian Komei Dempster (Topaz) will be speaking for the NVC Foundation Speaker Series at NVC Memorial Hall (1212 South King St.) in Seattle, WA. 

On Sunday, June 1, at 3 pm, Brian Komei Dempster (Topaz) will be reading with Janet Norman Knox at Eagle Harbor Books (157 Winslow Way E. ) in Bainbridge Island, WA. 

Topaz is available from Four Way Books. 

Tonight, Wednesday, May 7, at 6 pm, join Four Way Books for a reading with Joy Katz (All You Do Is Perceive), Karen Brennan (little dark), David J. Daniels (Clean), Kevin Prufer (Churches) and Daniel Tobin (The Net) at the NYU Main Bookstore (726 Broadway (near Waverly)) in NYC. This will be a free event. 

Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 7, at 6 pm, there will be a Four Way Books reading with Joy Katz (All You Do Is Perceive), Karen Brennan (little dark), David J. Daniels (Clean), Kevin Prufer (Churches) and Daniel Tobin (The Net) at the NYU Main Bookstore (726 Broadway (near Waverly)) in NYC. This will be a free event.

At 7 pm tonight, Monday, May 5, there will be a Four Way Books reading at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop (126A Front Street (next to Superfine)) in Dumbo, Brooklyn with readings by Joy Katz (All You Do Is Perceive), Karen Brennan (little dark), David J. Daniels (Clean), Kevin Prufer (Churches), Brett Fletcher Lauer (A Hotel in Belgium) and Daniel Tobin (The Net). This will be a free event. Hope to see you there!

Tonight, Monday, May 5, at 7 pm, there will be a Four Way Books reading with Joy Katz (All You Do Is Perceive), Karen Brennan (little dark), David J. Daniels (Clean), Kevin Prufer (Churches), Brett Fletcher Lauer (A Hotel in Belgium) and Daniel Tobin (The Net) at Berl’s Poetry Shop (126A Front Street (next to Superfine)) in Dumbo, Brooklyn. This is a free event.

Tomorrow, Saturday, May 3, at 12:15 pm

Jonathan Wells (Train Dance) will be speaking on the”Approaches to Publishing Your First Book” panel at The Indie Book Fair at MenilFest in Menil Park, Houston, TX.

  This Monday, May 5, at 7 pm

Four Way Books Reading with Joy Katz (All You Do Is Perceive), Karen Brennan (little dark), David J. Daniels (Clean), Kevin Prufer (Churches), Brett Fletcher Lauer (A Hotel in Belgium) and Daniel Tobin (The Net) at Berl’s Poetry Shop (126A Front Street (next to Superfine)) in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

This is a free event.

  This Wednesday, May 7, at 6 pm

Four Way Books Reading with Joy Katz (All You Do Is Perceive), Karen Brennan (little dark), David J. Daniels (Clean), Kevin Prufer (Churches) and Daniel Tobin (The Net) at the NYU Main Bookstore (726 Broadway (near Waverly)) in NYC.

This is a free event.

Next Friday, May 9, at 10 am

Brian Komei Dempster (Topaz) will be participating in a "Classroom Webinar in Conjunction with The National WWII Museum" at the The National WWII Museum (945 Magazine St.) in New Orleans, LA.

 Train Dance, All You Do Is Perceive, little dark, Clean, Churches, A Hotel in Belgium, The Net and Topaz are all available from Four Way Books.