415 W 4th St
Bloomington, IN 47404
USA
Monster House Presents
with additional support from Ledge Mule Press
featuring Anaïs Duplan launching their new book Mount Carmel & the Blood of Parnassus
also Bree Jo’ann and Essence London
music by Clint Breeze
art installation by A. Bowden
Saturday, September 30
doors 7:30 pm; show 8pm
I Fell Bldg
415 W 4th St
FREE
Anaïs Duplan (NYC) is the author of a full-length poetry collection, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016). Their poems and essays have appeared in Hyperallergic, PBS News Hour, the Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of America, Fence, Boston Review, The Journal, and elsewhere. Duplan is also an artist and curator who has organized exhibitions at the Distillery Gallery, Elastic Arts, Disjecta, the Radical Abacus, Public Space One, and at Mengi in Reykjavík, Iceland. Their visual works have appeared or are forthcoming in group exhibitions at Flux Factory, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Daata Editions, the 13th Baltic Triennial in Lithuania, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in LA.
Clint Breeze is the brain child of Indianapolis native and Hip Hop Producer, Carrington Clinton. With Jazz and Soul influenced sounds, Heavy drum compositions and with a balance of raw and catchy rhythm and melody, Clint Breeze makes music for the soul.
Essence London is working on a book-length poem that is surreal & Afrofuturistic; she also has a novel in the works. She makes books & letterpress prints & wants to start a small press in her hometown North Little Rock, Arkansas. A few poems of hers are floating around on the internet at Kinfolks Quarterly, Vinyl, joINT., and The Watering Hole. In addition to Indiana University’s M.F.A. program, she’s spent time at: Texas Tech’s English graduate program, Oxford American, The Field Office, and Cave Canem. She also has a really energetic son named after a river.
Bree Jo’ann writes most of her poems on her dated iPhone. She has a super useful Fiction Writing Degree from Columbia College Chicago. Her work has appeared in Radioactive Moat’s Deluge,monsterhousepress.com, and fafcollective.com. Find her on Facebook, @how2baradwytch on Twitter or email her atbrelyngerard@gmail.com.
A. Bowden is a conceptual artist living in Bloomington, IN. They believe in small towns, liminal states, and intention as form.
Monster House Press (est. 2010) is a nonprofit publisher & circuit of literature, art, & thought in the Midwest. We exist in print & online, as well as in the corporeal world via the organization of readings, events, & tours which intend to connect via an intentional being-with through the container of literature & art. We publish work that fuses, deconstructs, grafts, (re)imagines, connects, & disentangles the myths, customs, language, narratives, ideologies, apparatuses, & presuppositions of the contemporary milieu & moment. Emergent voices & writers make home & collaborate alongside established ones in books that illuminate the quotidian to raise it up into an eternal. We publish constantly evolving, challenging, accessible, multi-faceted & pertinent books + texts.
Monster House Presents is a monthly reading series in Bloomington, Indiana, by Monster House Press, showcasing emerging and established poets, writers, & artists from across the US. Each event will feature writers, musicians, and visual artists, reimagine the format of traditional poetry readings, and strive to engage diverse audiences, all in a committed effort to improve public access to poetry, strengthen collaboration between poetry and other expressions of art, and foster the reputation of Bloomington as an exciting hub for the arts in the Midwest and beyond.
This project is supported in part by the City of Bloomington Arts Commission’s Arts Project Grant Program.