{"id":338,"date":"2019-03-06T11:54:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T16:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonathanandersenpoet.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2019-03-06T11:54:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T16:54:35","slug":"poetry-democracy-samuel-ace-jonathan-andersen-vincent-toro-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonathanandersenpoet.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/06\/poetry-democracy-samuel-ace-jonathan-andersen-vincent-toro-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry &#038; Democracy: Samuel Ace, Jonathan Andersen, &#038; Vincent Toro Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_340\" style=\"width: 393px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-340\" class=\" wp-image-340\" src=\"http:\/\/jonathanandersenpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Berls-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"292\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berl\u2019s Brooklyn Poetry Shop<br \/>141 Front Street D.U.M.B.O. Brooklyn, NY<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belladonnaseries.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Belladonna*<\/a><em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwelijournal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kweli Journal<\/a><\/em>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/poetskiss.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poetskiss <\/a>present an evening with award-winning poets\u00a0<strong>Samuel Ace,\u00a0Jonathan Andersen\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Vincent Toro,\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0whose works engage with the\u00a0<strong>2019\u00a0National Poetry Coalition\u00a0<\/strong>theme, &#8220;What Is It, Then, Between Us?: Poetry &amp; Democracy,\u201d on\u00a0<strong>Saturday, March 9, 7:30 pm<\/strong>. Hosted by<strong>\u00a0Berl\u2019s Brooklyn Poetry Shop<\/strong>, New York City&#8217;s only all-poetry bookshop,\u00a0the reading and book signing is open and free to the public.<\/p>\n<p>A trans and genderqueer poet and sound artist,\u00a0<strong>Samuel Ace\u00a0<\/strong>is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund Award in Poetry and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award. His books of poetry include\u00a0<em>Stealth<\/em>, a collaborative work written with Maureen Seaton, and two forthcoming collections,\u00a0<em>Our Weather O\u00adur Sea\u00a0<\/em>(Black Radish Books) and\u00a0<em>Meet Me There<\/em>:\u00a0<em>Normal Sex &amp; Home in three days. Don\u2019t wash.\u00a0<\/em>(Belladonna Germinal Texts).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Andersen\u00a0<\/strong>is the author of\u00a0<em>Augur<\/em>\u00a0(Red Dragonfly Press), awarded the 2017 David Martinson-Meadowhawk Poetry Prize;\u00a0<em>The Burden Note<\/em>, (Meridian Prize, 2014), an English\/Serbo-Croatian chapbook of poems; and\u00a0<em>Stomp and Sing<\/em>\u00a0(Curbstone Press\/Northwestern University Press), a collection of poems. He has been a featured reader throughout the eastern US, the UK, and Serbia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vincent Toro<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0<em>Stereo.Island.Mosaic.<\/em>\u00a0(Ahsahta Press), winner of the Poetry Society of America&#8217;s Norma Farber First Book Award and\u00a0the 2015 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. He is the recipient of a Poets House Emerging Poets Fellowship, a NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, the Caribbean Writer\u2019s Cecile De Jongh Poetry Prize, and The Spanish Repertory Theater&#8217;s Nuestras Voces Playwriting Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belladonna*, Kweli Journal, and Poetskiss present an evening with award-winning poets\u00a0Samuel Ace,\u00a0Jonathan Andersen\u00a0and\u00a0Vincent Toro,\u00a0\u00a0whose works engage with the\u00a02019\u00a0National Poetry Coalition\u00a0theme, &#8220;What Is It, Then, Between Us?: Poetry &amp; Democracy,\u201d on\u00a0Saturday, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jonathanandersenpoet.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/06\/poetry-democracy-samuel-ace-jonathan-andersen-vincent-toro-read\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandersenpoet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandersenpoet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandersenpoet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandersenpoet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandersenpoet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandersenpoet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandersenpoet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandersenpoet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandersenpoet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandersenpoet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}