November P.E.E.L.: Soon

P.E.E.L. #6
Thursday, November 8, 7:30 pm
Stain Bar
766 Grand St., btw. Humboldt St. and Graham Ave.
L to Grand Street
Free

Todd Colby, giving an exuberant verbal workout to his poems
Samantha Topol, presenting an essay about Brooklyn’s own Homeless Museum, who will be joined by Filip Noterdaeme, HoMu BKLYN’s Director
Jackie Corley, with an excerpt about debauchery finally catching up
Dawn Knopf, reading a series of short letters to The King

About the authors:

Todd Colby is the author of several books of poems, all of which were published by Soft Skull Press. Currently he is leading a poetry workshop at The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York City. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, the artist Elizabeth Zechel. Todd keeps a poetry blog at gleefarm.blogspot.com

Jackie Corley was born in 1982. She developed Word Riot (www.wordriot.org) in March 2002. Word Riot Press, an independent publishing press, evolved out of the magazine in January 2003. Jackie's writing has appeared online at MobyLives.com, 3AM Magazine and SerialText, and in print in BOOM! For Real (Better Non Sequitur), Consumed: Women on Excess (So New Media) and The Flash (Social Disease).

Samantha Topol is a writer and editor from Lake Tahoe, California, currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Chicago.

Filip Noterdaeme is a New York-based artist and the founding director of the Homeless Museum (HoMu), a conceptual art project that mocks and challenges the commercial leaning and political maneuverings of leading cultural institutions. Since its inception in 2002, the Homeless Museum has, at turns, been an activist's initiative, an exhibit in a vacant artist studio, a live-in museum in a rental apartment in Brooklyn, a lemonade stand embedded in a commercial art fair, a make-believe identity, and a collection of original artworks. Noterdaeme is also a freelance lecturer at the Guggenheim Museum and an adjunct professor of art history and cultural studies at New York University and the New School.

Dawn Marie Knopf grew up in Yosemite National Park, CA where her daddy drove trucks and her mama tended bar. While studying at University of California, Davis under Gary Snyder, she was recognized in the Ina Coolbrith and Pamela Maus competitions and is now pursuing her M.F.A. at Columbia University. She recently completed her first novel and is working on a collection of poetry.