Prufrock Party at AWP

Shall I leave my badge behind?
Do I dare to eat a pizza?

Poetry hosts the premier “Prufrock Party” at the historic Regent Theater, featuring Melissa Broder, Douglas Kearney, Safiya Sinclair, and Eileen Myles with musical guests Bouquet and Tülips. Roll your trousers for worthwhile deals from the Regent’s Prufrock Pizzeria, signature cocktails, and draft specials from the bar.

Melissa Broder is the author of 4 collections of poems, including the forthcoming Last Sext (Tin House, 2016). She is also the author of the essay collection So Sad Today (Grand Central Publishing, 2016). She lives in Venice Beach.

Douglas Kearney wrote a poem called "Car-Jacking Prufrock." It wasn't very good. He’s gotten better, publishing several collections—poetry, essays, and (soon) libretti. He teaches at CalArts and performs widely.

Eileen Myles is the author of nineteen books including I Must Be Living Twice and a reissue of Chelsea Girls (both Ecco/Harper Collins, 2015). Her awards include an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital art writers' grant, a Lambda Book Award, and the Shelley Prize from The Poetry Society of America. She teaches at NYU and Naropa University and lives in Marfa, TX and New York.

Safiya Sinclair is the author of the collection Cannibal(University of Nebraska Press, 2016) which won the 2015 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. She is currently a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California. She is the recipient of a 2015 Lilly/Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship and a 2016 Whiting Award.

Bouquet is a kaleidoscopic pop duo from Los Angeles featuring Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs and Max Foreman. The two create an immersive sound, blending intricate vocal harmonies with a rising mass of guitar, trembling synthesizer, and pulsations of early rhythm machines.

Tülips is a female-fronted DIY noise pop riotgaze from LA. Music blog Buzz Bands LA describes the band, "Semi-sweet vocals over a nail bed of guitars. The pair trade off on vocals, each bringing their own fury to the proceedings. Nothing flowery about this."

DJ Brian Babylon is a Chicago-born comic, DJ, and the self-proclaimed Prince of Bronzeville. He’s appeared on numerous screens and stages and is a panelist on the NPR weekly news quiz show Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.

Let us go then to rock out with our Prufrock out.

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