An evening of poets reading new work

We are pleased to host Douglas Piccinnini, Matt Longabucco, and Faith Hale, for an evening of poetry, celebrating the launch of Douglas Piccinnini's recent body of work House of Bad Melodies, and Matt Longabucco's The Hummingbird.

Douglas Piccinnini is the author of Blood Oboe (Omnidawn), Beautiful, Safe & Free (New Books), and Story Book: a novella (The Cultural Society), as well as several chapbooks, including House of Bad Melodies (Greying Ghost). His writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, Amsterdam Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Antiphony, Lana Turner, Poetry Daily, Tupelo Quarterly, and Volt, among others. His work has been supported by the NJ State Council on the Arts, United States Artists, The Mastheads, Art Farm Nebraska, The Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia, SAFTA, and the Vermont Studio Center. He lives with his wife and two children in Lambertville, NJ. House of Bad Melodies  moves through grief, memory, and the weight of what we inherit — written with clarity, strangeness,…