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An Evening with Michael Lally & Lonely Christopher

November08 at Brooklyn's House of Kava in Brooklyn, New York

Two writers sitting down for an intimate and fun chat plus poetry reading in a Bushwick kava bar. 

A former jazz musician, Hollywood actor, and radical organizer, the New Jersey-born Michael Lally has worn many hats over the course of his life. But throughout it all, he has written accessible, deeply felt poetry. Themes of identity, love, success, and failure pervade through his body of work, but always with wry humor and the simple grace that is the mark of deep thought. Lally is the author of thirty books of poetry and prose, including Stupid Rabbits (1971), White Life (1980), It's Not Nostalgia (1999) and Swing Theory (2015). Another Way to Play: Poems 1960-2017 is out this year from Seven Stories Press. Lally is the recipient of the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.

Lonely Christopher is the author of the poetry collections Death & Disaster Series and The Resignation, the short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, and the novel THERE. His plays have been presented in Canada, China, and the United States. His film credits include several international shorts and the feature MOM, which he wrote and directed. He lives in Brooklyn and his website is lonelychristopher.com.

This event will be recorded for possible use in a documentary film about Michael Lally.

November08, 7.00pm

238 Central Ave
Brooklyn, New York 11221 United States