Pre-sale: $5
At the Door: $7
Flight Recorder is bringing you a brand new evening of poetry, only at The Tank! We chose the name because we believe that art can tell us where we are, where we’re going, and where we’ve gone wrong*. Come early to sign up for our poetry open mic, where each reader gets 3 minutes. Stay for the bold, urgent work of our amazing featured poets!
Hosted by Mike Fracentese; featuring Josephine Blair, Arthur Russell, and Glynnis Eldridge!
Josephine Blair is a 27-year-old writer who recently relocated from Miami to Brooklyn. Her poetry has been featured in Epiphany Magazine, Soliloquies Anthology, Meniscus, Allegory Ridge and elsewhere. She was awarded a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship in February 2019, and her poem “Jalex” was a finalist in the 2019 Brooklyn Poets Poem of the Year Smackdown. You can follow her at instagram.com/josephine_blair.
Arthur Russell lives in Nutley, New Jersey, where he works as an attorney. Winner of the Mary K Bryan Poetry Prize from Sarah Lawrence College and a writing fellowship from Syracuse University, his poems have appeared in online and print publications, including Wilderness House Literary Review, Copper Nickel, Paterson Literary Review, and the Red Wheelbarrow. His chapbook Unbent Trumpet (2017) was published by Nutley Arts Press, and his first full-length book of poems, Whales Off Manhattan Beach is in the running for the 2019 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Of his poetry, it’s been said, "Russell combines, to a degree rarely seen in modern verse, true-spokenness, musicality, humor and a profound understanding of the human heart." When I say that this has been said, I mean that it has been said by Arthur Russell when describing himself in the third person. Nutley Arts Press, which published Arthur's chapbook, is actually Arthur's name for the photocopier at his office.
Glynnis Eldridge is a writer and artist from New York City. Her work has been published online at Glass Poetry Press, Poets.org, Quarto Magazine, 4x4, and others. She is a recipient of an Academy of American Poets colleges and universities prize by Columbia University, where she also received the Jenny Zhang Prize for non-fiction and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. These days she works for a beekeeper, writes on fabric, and is at work on her first book.
*Also because it’s in a black box theater.**
**Like how people call flight recorders “black boxes”, even though they’re actually bright orange.