Aimee Herman's Blog, page 5

Close to the Knives

This is how to disintegrate/grab dandelion with head like frizzy wind mill/make a wish/you do not know the answer to/blow/then crawl away

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inspired by David Wojnarowicz’s “Close to the Knives A Memoir of Disintegration”

Rainbows Everywhere

On Saturday, October 12th, I will be signing copies of “Everything Grows” at the Rainbow Book Fair at 2pm at Three Rooms Press’s table.

Join me at the LGBTQ Center located at 208 W. 13th St. in NYC and celebrate LGBTQ writers and publishers. There will be poetry readings and panel discussions too!

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Kissing Dead Girls

Lips become another planet/military frostbite/a war against shapes/she/is/only as alive/as the hair/bundled around the earthworms/continuing to grow even though/she no longer/can

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Inspired by…….”Kissing Dead Girls” by Daphne Gottlieb

The Forgiveness of Lightning Bugs

Last Sunday, Trae Durica and I took the stage at Bowery Poetry Club for BOOG’s Poet Theatre. It was a wonderful event, with so many great writers and actors. Take a watch!

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Did you know……birds fall silent in the mechanical sea?

great weather for MEDIA is celebrating their newest anthology and I get to join them tonight, as I read my short story published in their anthology, Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea.

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Wednesday, September 25th: great weather for MEDIA book party
@ 61 Local / 61 Bergen St. in Brooklyn 
7-9pm

Also featuring: Matthew Hupert, Steve Dalachinsky, Yuko Otomo, Billy Cancel, Isa Guzman, Oliver Baer, Tatyana Muradov, and Erik Richmond.

On the Fence

Tonight, Monday, September 23rd, join me alongside a great line-up of writers at Big Words, Etc reading series in conjunction with PEN America’s Breakout Program.

@ 61 Local / 61 Bergen St in Brooklyn
6:30-8:30pm

*I will be reading a brand new piece that explores the theme: on the fence.

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Celebrate Books and the Publishers Supporting Writers to Write More of Them!!!

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BOOG and BOOKS

Today, I get to celebrate poetic theatrics and Brooklyn’s Book Festival.

First, BOOG Poets Theatre Festival
@ Bowery Poetry Club / 308 Bowery NYC
12-3pm
*I will be performing alongside the magnetic Trae Durica in a poetic movement I wrote called “The Forgiveness of Lightening Bugs”, which explores the end of a friendship and a yearning for forgiveness.

AND THEN….

Meet me at the Brooklyn Book Festival 
I will be signing copies of my novel, Everything Grows, at 4pm.
Find me at Three Rooms Press’s booth 333.

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Kingston Bound!

Hydrogen Junkbox (poemusic featuring David Lawton, Eric Alter and I) will be driving on down to Kingston, NY to spread our Pixie Dust on Saturday, September 21st at Kingston/NYC 1st Annual Anti-Folk Festival!

@ Deep Tanks 2.0 / 224 East Strand St. in Kingston, NY
12-10pm

Hydrogen Junkbox goes on at 1pm. What a great line-up of musicians including Phoebe Blue & the Make Baleaves. Open mic too!

Deep Tanks & The Kingston Artist Collective Present:

12pm / PHOEBE BLUE & THE MAKE BALEAVES

https://phoebeblue.bandcamp.com/

1pm / HYDROGEN JUNKBOX

https://www.facebook.com/HydrogenJunkbox/

2pm / BILLY WAKEMAN

https://www.facebook.com/billywakemanmusic/

3pm / GROVE RUNE

https://www.facebook.com/groverune/

4pm / WILD BILL DRUCKER & KID BUSY

http://wildbilldrucker.com/

5pm / YOUTH MOOSE

http://youthmoose.com/

6pm / MATTHEW GAFFNEY & FRIENDS

https://mattgaffney.bandcamp.com/

7pm / DEEP SOUND DIVER

https://deepsounddiver.bandcamp.com/

8pm/ PAUL McMAHON & EVA BUBLICK ++

http://paulmcmahon.tv/

9pm / COMFORT CAT & FRIENDS

https://comfortcat.bandcamp.com/

(OPEN MIC TO FOLLOW)

Flesh and Bone: Stories About the Body

I could dedicate myself to writing about my body for the rest of my life, and I would still have so many questions. Preparing for this reading, Generation Women, helped me to ventilate just one cupboard, encouraging me to question and vocalize a piece of who/what I am.

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Join me and five other incredible voices: Spring Kwok, Nicole Ferraro, Beth Lisick, Gayle Kirschenbaum, and Judith Katz representing humans in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s.

Wednesday, September 18th: Generation Women: Flesh and Bone: Stories about the Female Body
@ Caveat /  21A Clinton St in NYC
6:30-8:30pm

Purchase tickets now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/generation-women-flesh-and-bone-stories-about-the-female-body-tickets-67091655949