Melodrama Music & Reading SeriesMelodrama Music & Reading Series

welcome to melodrama! (greek melos = song + drama = you know, drama ) writers will perform works with direct connections to music - recorded, invented, or otherwise. a band or two will play. youll have a great time. tickets: $10 adv/$12 door tonight will include: C. (Constantine Jones) is a Greek-American thingmaker from Tennessee. They are the author of a novel, IN STILL ROOMS (Operating System 2020) & a collaborative chapbook with Portuguese visual artist Vicente Sampaio, BALEEN: A POEM IN TWELVE DAYS (Ursus Americanus 2022). A life-long student & lover of myth, epic poetry & fantasy role-playing games, C. is currently at work writing & performing an epic of their own. Glen K. Rodman is the editor and publisher of Shapeless Press, an independent anticapitalist zine press by and for trans people. A recovering academic, he now writes short stories about strange things happening to messy gay people. Gus Goldsack is a gay poet living in Brooklyn with two cats and three plants. His poems meander between Aotearoa/New Zealand and New York by way of airports, weather systems and terrible romantic decisions. His first collection is Systems, Thinking. Ryan Schulte is a community gardener at NYC Parks. His first novel, I Dreamed I Saw Augustine, was just published by Rebel Satori Press. This Wilderness is a must-see sonic duo known to destroy lives. https://thiswilderness.bandcamp.com This event is 21 and over. Any ticket holder unable to present valid identification indicating that they are at least 21 years of age will not be admitted to this event, and will not be eligible for a refund.