BASH #3: BLACK OCEAN ft. Janaka Stucky, Paige Ackerson-Kiely, DJ Dolack, and Joshua Harmon

Watch out, Coolidge Corner. On Friday the 13th, the verbal mindfuck whirlwind that is Black Ocean comes to Brookline Booksmith for BASH #3.

This is going to be absolutely killer. Check:

This is the launch party for Janaka's new book, The World Will Deny It For You, on Ahsahta Press. Janaka, if you didn't know, is the publisher of Black Ocean and Handsome, and was voted Boston's Best Poet in the Boston Phoenix in 2010, for real.

Greying Ghost (http://www.greyingghost.com/) will be producing a limited, special edition pamphlet for this event featuring one poem from each of the readers.

And speaking of the readers:

Paige Ackerson-Kiely is the author of In No One's Land (Ahsahta 2007), My Love is a Dead Arctic Explorer (Ahsahta 2012) and other works of poetry and prose. She lives in rural Vermont, co-edits Handsome, and works at a homeless shelter.

DJ Dolack's work has appeared in numerous journals including Handsome, Lonesome Fowl, Salt Hill and Diode. His video reviews and Tourist Trap, NYC series can be found at Coldfront Magazine, where he is also the video editor. His most recent chapbook, 12 Poems, was published by Eye For An Iris Press (2010). His next chapbook, No Ser No., is forthcoming from Greying Ghost Press (2012) and his first full length collection, Whittling a New Face in the Dark, is forthcoming from Black Ocean (2013). He teaches writing at Baruch College and lives in Jackson Heights, Queens.

Joshua Harmon is the author of a novel, Quinnehtukqut (Starcherone 2007), and of two books of poems: Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie (Akron Series 2010) and Scape (Black Ocean 2009). His fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in journals such as Agni, The Believer, Colorado Review, New England Review, TriQuarterly, and Verse, and he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. He lives in western Massachusetts.

Janaka Stucky is the Publisher of Black Ocean and its literary journal, Handsome. He is the author of The World Will Deny It For You (Ahsahta 2012) and Your Name Is The Only Freedom (Brave Men Press 2009), and his poems have appeared in such journals as Denver Quarterly, Fence, North American Review, and Volt. In 2010 he was voted “Boston’s Best Poet” in the Boston Phoenix.

Finally, if you don't know Black Ocean, get updated and buy some books at http://www.blackocean.org/catalog/. Boston is lucky to have something as consistently exciting, radical, and new new new as Black Ocean, working and playing right here in our city. Come out, and celebrate Janaka's book release, Black Ocean's writers, and new lit in general, at BASH #3; BLACK OCEAN.