Date: Monday, March 3, 2014
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Pacific Standard | 82 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11217
RSVP on Facebook: Slam, Bam, Thank You Ma’am = PBQ + Michael Broder

Painted Bride Quarterly returns to New York, with the celebrated “Slam Bam” format that asks the audience to write and then compete for prizes.

I will be on hand to read from my new book, This Life Now, and maybe a new poem or two, if folks seem interested.

Hosted by Jason Schneiderman and co-hosted by boy-wonder Alex J. Tunney, with cameos from Miriam R. Haier & Maxwell Donnewald.

Represent, Brooklyn! The Bride is in the House!

The book is at the printers and the celebration is afoot!

Date: Thursday, March 6, 2014
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Venue: reBar | 147 Front St., Brooklyn, New York 11201

We will be the in awesomely cool and cozy Lowrider Room, with fabulous hors d’oeuvres and a deeply discounted cash bar for my guests.

I will give the obligatory spiel / brief reading at about 8:30 and people can stay as long as they want..it’s a bar!

One of the fun things about my new website is that I can incorporate a new blog. Not a blog about pedagogy or even about critical thinking and theory, like my previous blogs. More like the first blog I ever started, mikeyblog, whose database I was too ignorant to back up and download when I left the internet service provider who hosted it, but which can be “read” and “enjoyed” pretty much in its entirety thanks to the Internet Archive, affectionately known as the Wayback Machine. Mikeyblog had fun things like pictures of Alexandre Despatie and Wentworth Miller (ah, the 2000s). Here I’ll just post an image of Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin’s gay-culture cliché, Jeune Homme Nu Assis au Bord de la Mer, which taught me something about myself when I first saw it in the Louvre when I was 21.

The Bryant Park Reading Room presents
Word for Word Poetry
6:00pm | Kinokuniya Bookstore, 1073 Avenue of the Americas
Michael Broder
Julie Enszer
Cheryl Clarke

This series, a long-beloved feature of New York City summers, is now wintering at the nearby Kinokuniya Bookstore. I’m really excited about reading with Julie Enszer and Cheryl Clarke, two kickass voices of lesbian feminist poetry and scholarship. And heartfelt thanks to series curator Paul Romero for inviting us to read in this inaugural Winter Series.

Come Hear ! #8 LGBTQ Poets Reading Series at the
THE 6th ANNUAL NEW YORK RAINBOW BOOK FAIR
Saturday, MARCH 29, 2014
Noon–6pm
Holiday Inn Midtown
440 W. 57th Street, NYC 10019

I’ll be reading with about 72 poets!

Sponsored by: CLAGS The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (web.gc.cuny.edu/Clags/)
Rainbow Book Fair Website: http://rainbowbookfair.org/
Reading organized by Nathaniel Siegel and Regie Cabico