Paper Cuts Bookstore Tour

Thursday, September 24
7:30pm at Pioneer Books; Free and Open to the Public, RSVP Here

Paper Cuts, the zine, DIY, and small press reading program on Clocktower Radio, is taking the show on the road with a series of events at bookstores and alternative spaces in the New York City area. Each event will feature writers, zinesters, artists, and performers who typically share their work in print, on paper, and in small editions. Think of it as a traveling micro-art book and zine fair! Come to hear great readers and talk about new work!

The first stop is at Pioneer Books, 289 Van Brunt Street (corner of Pioneer and Van Brunt).

Readers include:
Adriana Atema, Sadie Barnette, Eno Edet, S. Whitney Holmes, and Alys Velazquez

Paper Cuts is a regular reading series on Clocktower Radio.
For more information: 
clocktower.org/series/paper-cuts
papercutsny.tumblr.com

Readers:
Adriana Atema is a multi-disciplinary creative dynamo artist living in Red Hook. She is a painter, performance and installation artist, musician and writer. Adriana’s work explores interconnectivity, perception and story. She has been exhibiting and performing across the US – working on new ways to share her engaging work with a wide audience.

Sadie Barnette is from Oakland, California. She received her BFA from CalArts in 2006, and her Masters in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, in 2012. She has shown her work in venues including the Studio Museum in Harlem, Self Help Graphics, The Mistake Room in Los Angeles, Ever Gold gallery in San Francisco, and Carol Jazzar in Miami. Sadie is currently living in New York City while participating in the 2014-15 Artist-in-Residence program at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Eno Edet was raised and nurtured by New York’s underground, Eno has taken the lessons and teachings of the city’s most sacred weirdos, and has translated them into his own brand of children stories. These stories are written with the intent to spread love, happiness and imagination throughout the world. But in a very strange way. Enjoy…

S. Whitney Holmes is the author of Room Where I Get What I Want (Black Ocean, 2015) and of the chapbook Method of Loci (dancing girl press, 2013). She acts as executive director for the feminist press Switchback Books and is also an editor for The Offending Adam. She was born and raised in West Virginia, earned her M.F.A. from the University of Alabama, and currently lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Barrelhouse, and others.

Alys Velazquez is a Brooklyn-based writer focusing on poetry and short prose and is the poetry editor for Selfish. She spends much of her time on both sides of the bar, haunting used bookstores, and photographing her breakfast.