Hosted by After Party Press and The Footlight

After Party Press, a nascent, funny, literary adventure from Aly & Aditi, is back at The Footlight with its third-ever literary variety show — on a weekday, so the L won't be *that* 'ellish!

After Party Presents: SERVICE

With performances by

• Anika Jade

• Brittany Leitner

• Charu Sinha

• Conor Boughton

• Maclain Maier

• Vikrant SC & ANK

Suggested donation $5 at the door, but nobody will be turned away if unable to pay.

This venue is accessible, and has an ADA compliant bathroom.

No, Dear aims to bring together the voices of New York City poets who might not otherwise be in dialogue: both emerging and established poets from diverse backgrounds who are living and writing in New York City’s five boroughs. We aspire to disrupt a field that has historically privileged white patriarchal perspectives by building a publication and communal/critical dialogue that strives to be largely representative of women-identified poets, and poets of color and of all gender orientations.

Readings by: Viktoria Peitchev, Sonja Hristina Bjelić, Christina Gayton, Brittany Leitner, and Ximena Izquierdo Ugaz

> > > Join No, Dear for the launch of our 22nd issue: DIASPORA !

+++++++ Featuring readings by:
Nancy Agabian
Genji Amino
Maria Billini
Sonja Hristina Bjelic
Maria Damon
Christina Gayton
Julia Knobloch
Dionissios Kollias
Brittany Leitner
Eline Marx
Katherine Menjivar
Precious Okoyomon
Noel Quiñones
Matt L. Roar
Raffi Joe Wartanian
Ebba Zajmi-Gjergji

+++ Event hosted by: t'ai freedom ford
++ Issue edited by: emily brandt, alex cuff, t'ai freedom ford, Alina Gregorian & Leila Ortiz
+++++ Cover art by Kamee Abrahamian and design by Ronald P.D. Brandt
++ Additional poets in the issue: Sherese Francis & Alan Sondheim

Care Of is a new reading series founded by NYC poets Aly Vander Hayden and Brittany Leitner, which seeks to bring young and emerging poets into the forefront of the New York poetry scene.

"23 Emotions" is the debut poetry book from Brittany Leitner. Poems from this collection have been recognized by the Atlanta Review in the International Merit Award 2018 prize and are forthcoming in No, Dear magazine. Copies of "23 Emotions" will be for sale at this reading.

c/o readers: Brittany Leitner
Aly Vander Hayden
Shannan Elinor Herskovits