Saturday, Dec 8th, 2pm. Clay Pit Pnds State Forest Preserve, 2351 Veterans Road, SINY 10309 (corner of Sharrotts Rd)
Staten Island OutLOUD and the friendly forest rangers host a reading for all ages on “Pretty Monsters” and woodland creatures. We’ll meet inside the warm & cozy interpretive center.
Forest Rangers will also offer a short optional stroll in the woods, weather permitting.
Book giveaway, too. Free!
Free parking in the visitors’ lot.
Sunday, Dec 2nd, 2pm at Huguenot House, 5474 Amboy Road, SINY 10312 (on the grounds of the Reformed Church of Huguenot Park).
We’ll gather in Huguenot House, the new community center on the grounds of the Reformed Church of Huguenot Park, 5474 Amboy Road (corner Huguenot Ave), SINY 10312.
Special guests: Psychotherapists Joyce Malerba Goldstein and Ira Goldstein.
Great thanks to our host, Rev Terry Troia.
This event is part of Staten Island OutLOUD’s series for the National Endowment for the Arts/The Big Read.
This fall, OutLOUD has been exploring Kelly Link’s short story collection, “Pretty Monsters”. Ms. Link’s stories invite us into unusual situations or magical worlds in which we can reflect on life’s challenges in surprising new ways.
Our special guests, psychologists Joyce and Ira Goldstein, help us discover how fantasy can provide a healthy way of facing issues. It can enable us to cope with didficulties, or to overcome problems. Fantasy can be a source of healing, not merely a form of escape.
Book giveaway: Free copies of “Pretty Monsters” for our guests.
Free parking in the church parking lot, and on surrounding streets.
Nov 1st, 6pm. At the St George Library Center, Central Ave & Hyatt St, SINY 10301 (just a half block up the hill from the Ferry Terminal, and across the street from Borough Hall).
Join our pals, the cool librarians at the St George Library Center. Book giveaway.
Friday, Nov 30th, 7pm. At Staten Island Academy, 715 Todt Hill Road, SINY 10304.
The students of Staten Island Academy host this community conversation to explore how fantasy can inform reality. Homemade refreshments, book giveaway.
Sunday, Nov 18th, 2pm at ETG Book Cafe, 208 Bay St, SINY 10301 (between Victory Blvd & Hannah St). Free
A spoken word performance, inspired by Kelly Link’s “The Wrong Grave” – part of her short story collection, “Pretty Monsters”. This event is part of Staten Island OutLOUD’s series for The National Endowment for the Arts / The Big Read.
Cast (in alphabetical order): Julie Bentsen, Margaret Chase, Thomas Fucaloro, Olivia Roldan.
Directed by Vincent Vok.
Video montage by Julia Simoniello.
Saturday, Nov 10th, 2pm at the Richmondtown Branch Library, 200 Clarke Ave, SINY 10306
For this special event in our “Pretty Monsters” series for The Big Read, we’ll read sections of the short story “The Wrong Grave” alongside poetry by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal, poets and lovers whose macabre true-life story serves as inspiration for Kelly Link’s short story.
Dr. Marguerite Maria Rivas, poet and CUNY professor, will tell the story of the worm-eaten poems, the painter and his muse, and other-worldly tresses.
We’ll conclude by sketching our own monsters.
Book giveaway, while supplies last.
Friday, Nov 9th, 2:30pm at the New Dorp Branch Library, 309 New Dorp Lane, SINY 10306
Saturday, Nov 3rd, 2pm at ETG Book Cafe, 208 Bay St, SINY 10301 (between Victory Blvd & Hannah St). Illustration by Julie Bentsen. Copyright 2018. Used with permission of the artist. All rights reserved.
Island poet Thomas Focalaro joins Staten Island OutLOUD for this special event.
“The Wrong Grave” is a short story that is really about the writer’s process, how we dig and dig until we find the right spirit. In this workshop, we will all engage in the conversation of the writer’s process and craft. Using actually lines from the short story as prompts, we will, as a group, talk about our process’ and expand on our own.
Thomas Fucaloro is the author of two books of poetry published by Three Rooms Press, most recently It Starts from the Belly and Blooms, which received rave reviews.
The winner of a performance grant from the Staten Island Council of the Arts and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, he has been on six national slam teams. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the New School and is a co-founding editor of Great Weather for Media and NYSAI press. He is an adjunct professor at Wagner College where he teaches world lit and advanced creative writing. He is a writing coordinator at the Harlem Children’s Zone and lives on Staten Island.
Thursday, Nov 1st, 6pm at the St George Library Center, 5 Central Ave (corner of Hyatt St, just up the hill from Borough Hall), SINY 10301
Monday, Oct 29th, 3pm at the Tottenville Branch Library, 7430 Amboy Road, SINY 10307
Our friends, the valiant librarians at Tottenville Library invite teens to join Staten Island OutLOUD for this afterschool meetup on Kelly Link’s wild short stories, Pretty Monsters.
Zombies, gravedigging, wizards, and underground librarians.
Don’t miss it!
Book giveaway too.