Mental Marginalia: Paty/Roldán/Vigilla/Lovell

Local Reading Series That Could, Does, or Rather Plans on Doing.

You tremble in anticipation, already planning your late arrival and quips about how these things never start on time. There is a seat at the bar; go ahead, take it, you’ve had your eye on it for quite some time. A saloon in which it is advised that you refrain from making any sudden movements, so as not to upset the delicate balance. There is a kind of spectral sheen reflected off of the brow of the bartender as you ask for another. This may pinch a little, the doctor intones, gently, preparing the syringe.

The readers:

Allyson Paty [pronounced PAY-tee] is the author of The Further Away, a chapbook published by [sic] Press in 2012. Her poems can be found in Tin House, Best New Poets 2012, DIAGRAM, Handsome and elsewhere. She is co-founding editor of Singing Saw Press, a fine art and poetry publisher.

Camilo Roldán is a poet and translator living in Brooklyn, NY. He co-curates the Triptych Reading Series, is editor-in-chief for DIEZ and is the author of a chapbook, Amílkar U., Nadaísta in Translation (These Signals Press 2011).

Hubert Vigilla is writer living in Brooklyn, which makes him completely indistinguishable from four-fifths of people living in Brooklyn. He’s the News Editor and resident snob at the movie blog Flixist.com. He’s currently working on a novel, a short story collection, and a book-length essay on the film ‘This is Spinal Tap.’

Jaclyn Lovell teaches writing in the English Language Studies department at The New School. From Wisconsin, she currently lives in Brooklyn and is Editor in Chief at LIT. She’ll dance and sing for you on request and can’t even dispute this fact because she’s not even on facebook to see it.