Vengeance Tour

w/Holiday Black, Joel Gregory, & Andrea Abi-Karam

Monday, November 21, 2016
7pm (doors at 6:30)
outside in the courtyard
lemonade and snacks served

Joel Gregory is a poet and visual artist living in Oakland, California. He is a dropout of the Evergreen State College and the New School. He is a co­-founder at Timeless, Infinite Light. His work can be found in 580 Split, Elderly, and Open House. He is currently working on Connection, a voyeristic book-length manuscript, in which he collages language from Craigslist missed connections into poems and reposts them in search of the absent object of desire.

Holiday Black's work has been featured in BUST!, Bitch Media, and The Establishment. She is a poet and artist who splits her time between Brooklyn, NY and Oakland, California. She is the artistic director of Gemstone Readings, a Brooklyn-based poetry series which highlights the voices of femme and queer media artists and writers. Her current work is primarily concerned with Sex Worker’s Rights and first-hand experiences.

Joel Gregory and Holiday Black will be joined by special guest Andrea Abi-Karam:

Andrea Abi-Karam is a mixed race genderqueer punk poet writing on the art of killing bros, the intricacies of cyborg bodies, trauma & delayed healing. They recently completed the manuscript EXTRATRANSMISSION a book length piece against how patriarchy and US militarism produce the hypergendered subject. Andrea’s most recent piece THE AFTERMATH (Commune Editions, September 2016) attempts to queer Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. From 2012-2015 Andrea co-founded with Drea Marina, Words of Resistance a monthly radical queer open floor poetry night aimed at creating space for folks to share their work, especially if unpolished and messy. Andrea is both a writer, printer, & publisher whose founding small press project Mess Editions seeks to publish emerging writing from queers, people of color, and those involved in social movements yet uninvolved in poetry & art scenes.