FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES -- Summer Kick-off -- June 14

This month's reading could only take place in Crown Heights...

Please join us in the big bar on Monday, June 14, from 8-10pm. We'll have cheap drinks, great lit, and a never-before-seen multimedia performance about "Michael Jackson, God, and swimming goggles." (You'll have to be there to find out what that means.)

It's all FREE, of course.

Enter through Dutch Boy, at 766 Franklin Avenue, between Lincoln and St. Johns.

Featuring:

ZETTA ELLIOTT (A Wish After Midnight)
MATT GALLAGHER (KABOOM: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War)
HILA RATZABI (The Apparatus of Visible Things)
SINI ANDERSON (performance artist, Sister Spit co-founder)
AIMEE NORWICH (inventor, musician)

ZETTA ELLIOTT will be reading from A Wish After Midnight, her time travel novel set in and around Crown Heights. In this page-turning book, A 15-year-old girl from a rough Brooklyn neighborhood falls through a portal in the Botanic Garden in 2001 and travels back to Civil War era Brooklyn.

Elliott says she wrote A Wish after Midnight to "meet a need for more books that speak to the varied roots and realities of children in urban schools."

Reading from his acclaimed Iraq war memoir KABOOM: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War, Crown Heights resident and former Army lieutenant MATT GALLAGHER will share his surreal and harrowing experiences.

We're also very honored to host HILA RATZABI, a hugely talented poet, lit journal editor, and reading series curator.

And we're very excited about the world premiere of a performance from director/video artist SINI ANDERSON and musician/inventor AIMEE NORWICH.

Hope you can make it!

Penina