Launch party for apt 9: Sam Cha, Krysten Hill, and Kurt Klopmeier

When:
Friday, Jan 18, 2019 7:00p -
8:00p

Where:
Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA 02446

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Art, Date Idea, LGBT, Party, Performing Arts

Join us in celebrating the launch of apt's ninth print annual! Our latest issue includes longform writing by Devon Balwit, Sam Cha, Abby Minor, Matthew Morris, and Buku Sarkar, and the launch party will feature readings by three great apt contributors: Sam Cha, Krysten Hill, and Kurt Klopmeier!


You won't want to miss this event! Hosted by apt EIC, Carissa Halston, and the fine crew at Brookline Booksmith!


THE READERS


Sam Cha was born in Korea. He earned an MFA from UMass Boston. A winner of two Academy of American Poets prizes and a St. Botolph’s Club Emerging Artists Grant, his work has appeared in apt, Anderbo, Better, Best New Poets, Boston Review, decomP, DIAGRAM, Memorious, Missouri Review, Rattle, RHINO, and Toad. He’s a poetry editor at Radius, and his collection, American Carnage, was recently published by Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs. He lives and writes in Cambridge, MA.


Krysten Hill is an educator, writer, and performer who has showcased her poetry on stage at The Boston Book Festival, Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Blacksmith House, Cantab Lounge, Merrimack College, U35 Reading Series, and many others. She received her MFA in poetry from UMass Boston where she currently teaches. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in apt, Word Riot, The Baltimore Review, B O D Y, Muzzle, PANK, Winter Tangerine Review, Take Magazine and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2016 St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award. Her chapbook, How Her Spirit Got Out (Aforementioned Productions), received the 2017 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize.


Kurt Klopmeier is a writer and teacher living in Boston. He received his MFA from the University of Massachusetts - Boston and he has had poems published in journals such as apt, Amethyst Arsenic, Consequence, Damfino, and ripple(s).

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