events— Brooklyn, NY

Literary Tuesday at The Perch Cafe

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright is a New Romantic known for sonnets, performance and politics. His tenth book, THE NAME POEMS, was published recently by Sisyphus. His work has been included in anthologies from Faber and Faber, Crown, Black Sparrow, Granary and Henry Holt. In addition to poetry, he also writes art criticism and poetry magazines. Recent work can be seen online at www.toolamagazine.com. He will read with Wanda Phipps, a writer living in Brooklyn, and author of 66 Morning Poems; Your Last Illusion or Break Up Sonnets and Lunch Poems, among others. Her poetry has been published over a hundred times, in numerous journals, among them : Agni; The World; Hanging Loose; Longshot etc. She has curated several readings and a performance series at the Poetry series at St. Mark’s Church as well as other venues, and has written for the arts for Time Out New York, Paper Magazine and About.com.

The Perch Cafe
365 5th Avenue Park Slope, Brooklyn
F/R Train to 4th Avenue/9th Street (btwn 5th and 6th St.)