St. Rocco’s Featuring Bhagat, Garcia, Giragosian, & Rothschild
This is St. Rocco’s first reading since the slowdown began! Featuring the current members of St. Rocco’s collective – Alexis Bhagat, Kenning JP Garcia, and dgls.n.rthschild – together with our friend Sarah Giragosian.
At People’s Park (aka Gabi’s Garden) located at the corner of Grand St. and Wilbur Street (Map)
Everyone must wear a mask and practice social distancing.
We will have amplification. You will be able to hear.
We will not provide refreshments at this event. Bring your own.
There will be a few chairs, but if you can bring your own chair that’s great and helps everyone with social distancing.
This is a free event. Donations are welcome.
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ALEXIS BHAGAT is a writer living in Albany and a founding member of St. Rocco’s Poetry Collective. He believes in knowing poems by heart and wants to send you a letter.
KENNING JP GARCIA is an anti-poet and diarist and founding member of St. Rocco’s Poetry Collective. Kenning is neither man nor myth but enjoys a good origin story. So, Brooklyn is where xe began and Albany is where xe hopes not to end although endings do not frighten Kenning. Endings are merely a gateway to upgrades, sequels, and remastered re-releases. In the time between the initial and the impending, Kenning writes chronicles, humor and lyrical narratives, including So This Is Story (Shirt PocketPress), They Say (WEST VINE PRESS) and Playing Dead.
SARAH GIRAGOSIAN is the author of the poetry collection Queer Fish, a winner of the American Poetry Journal Book Prize (Dream Horse Press, 2017) and The Death Spiral (Black Lawrence Press, 2020). The craft anthology, Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems, which is co-edited by Sarah and Virginia Konchan, is forthcoming from The University of Akron Press. Sarah’s writing has appeared in such journals as Orion, Ecotone, Tin House, and Prairie Schooner, among others. She teaches at the University at Albany-SUNY.
dgls.n.rthschld is a poet provocateur who lives in Albany, NY. In addition to writing good poems and publishing them in established journals, he organizes the reading series at Zinc Bar in Manhattan and is a founding member of St. Rocco’s Poetry Collective.
