Fort Greene Summer Literary Festival this SATURDAY, 8/22

This Saturday, August 22nd, NY Writers Coalition, Akashic Books & Greenlight Bookstore will be teaming up to host the 11th Annual Fort Greene Summer Literary Festival. Launched in 2005, the LitFest serves as an end-of-summer reading for the talented young writers who have been taking summer youth workshops with NY Writers Coalition. Feature artists include Apogee contributors (!) Mahogany L. Browne (Dear Twitter: Love Letters Hashed Out On-line), Morgan Parker (Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night), and Tiphanie Yanique (Land of Love and Drowning). Join Apogee at this *FREE* event, led by Chris Prioleau & with music by tubafresh. Afterparty to follow. Saturday @ 2    /    August 22nd    /    BRIC    /   647 Fulton Street     xoxo, Apogee

POETRY: Two Poems by Cristine Brache

  safe words Cristine Brache   i’d like to hear some safe words satin blouse, string of pearls, neck brace make more secure sounds, say a prayer, and really care tell me to go stand in the corner play the recorded sound of a dog panting from the beginning of july till the end of august between each dog’s pant i want to say i am a beautiful piece of property erect and etched in stone       tfw you can’t wear chanel to your own systematic humiliation   dramatization, waterbed city sappho’s expression while you klonopin you can cry as much as you want or write down the dates you’ve felt scared like a woman of good pedigree or latinas in the dark       CRISTINE BRACHE is an artist and poet, she lives and works in London, England. You can find her online here: cristinebrache.info.            

POETRY: Black Girls, Simone Savannah

  Black Girls Simone Savannah   Black girls try to memorize theories to save themselves, try to revive their pretty browns tight and significant. My white girlfriend, skinny thing, not much ass to carry, quotes Janelle Monáe on her Facebook page, and I think it is easy for white girls to say the body isn’t for male consumption when they’ve never been eaten up, or no, to say the body isn’t for male consumption when their pretty white isn’t said to eat men automatically. I want to ask my white girlfriend if she knows Janelle’s song might just be for us to echo, her dance for the pretty brown areolas already in the pits of eyes and bellies, for the pretty brown Jezebels reading theory, twirling dicks between their teeth while lying on their backs.   SIMONE SAVANNAH is from Columbus, Ohio. She is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Kansas developing her interests in sexuality, Modern and Contemporary women’s poetry, and African American literature. She served as the Assistant Poetry Editor of Beecher’s 3. Her work is forthcoming and has appeared in Big Lucks and Blackberry: A Magazine.