Ditmas Lit Reading Series
Wednesday, May 22nd
8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Ditmas
Lit is a monthly reading series dedicated to
showcasing established and emerging writers in all genres. Four writers will read from their works at this month's installment of Ditmas Lit on Wednesday, May 22nd, 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
This month's writers:
- Larissa Babij is a Ukrainian-American writer, translator, and dancer based in Kyiv, Ukraine, since 2005. Her writing and translations have appeared in The Evergreen Review, Arrowsmith Journal, Krytyka, London Ukrainian Review, The Odessa Review, and other publications. She also teaches Awareness Through Movement classes in the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education. Her book A Kind of Refugee (ibidem Press) chronicles living in Ukraine at war and participating in the country’s civic–military defense. She continues to publish dispatches from wartime Ukraine on Substack (https://akindofrefugee2022.substack.com/).
- Matthew Daddona is the author of the poetry collection House of Sound, which Publishers Weekly called "ruminative...a glimpse into a mind on the search for answers." A multi-hyphenate writer, his work has appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, Newsday, Electric Literature, Whalebone, Tin House, https://www.grammy.com, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He lives on the North Fork of Long Island, where, in addition to ghostwriting full time, he shucks oysters, installs irrigation systems, and volunteers as a firefighter.
- Kyle Carrero Lopez is the author of MUSCLE MEMORY, the chapbook winner of the 2020 [PANK] Books Contest. His poems are published or forthcoming in The Nation, POETRY, The Atlantic, Guernica, Jewish Currents, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU, where he was a Goldwater Fellow, and is the co-founder of LEGACY, a Brooklyn-based production collective founded by and for Black queer artists.
- Zito Madu is a Nigerian-born writer who grew up in Detroit, Michigan. A former narrative director at several creative agencies, sportswriter, soccer player, and engineering student, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York. His writing has been published in many publications, including Plough Quarterly, Victory Journal, GQ Magazine, the New Republic, and the Nation.
Location
Hinterlands Bar
Hinterlands Bar
739 Church Avenue
between E. 7th and E. 8th streetsKensington, Brooklyn
(718) 633-0550
hinterlandsbar@gmail.com