Book Launch: Fresh Failure by John Tottenham with Calvin Atwood, Matthew Davis and Salomé

Book Launch: Fresh Failure by John Tottenham with Calvin Atwood, Matthew Davis and Salomé

Thursday May 16, 2024
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

POWERHOUSE Arena
28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)
Brooklyn , NY 11201

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About the Book.


About the Author.

John Tottenham’s poetry, essays and performances have led to him being described as “our preeminent contemporary poete maudit.” A unique purveyor of magnanimous misanthropy and magical cynicism, he is the author of one novel—to be published in 2025 by Semiotext(e))—numerous essays, and four volumes of poetry: The Inertia VariationsAntiepithalamia & Other Poems of Regret and Resentment, and The Hate Poems. His new collection, Fresh Failure, is published by Hat & Beard Press this Spring.

 

 

 

About the Readers.


Salomé
is a writer, musician, actor, and model from Pennsylvania. She has studied at a few colleges and currently holds a GED. Salomé mainly writes about catholicism, ambition, sin, personality, microcelebrity, and the bootless pursuit of truth and beauty. Her love of art and performance had led to her singing in operas, composing for orchestra, acting in a handful of indie movies, and walking down runways. She is active as a professional church organist, classical singer, and piano teacher.


 
Calvin Atwood is currently teaching a course called Literature in a Global Context at St John’s University. Additionally, he has recently completed a manuscript, written entirely on the New York City Transit System, called F-Train. A 75k word novel that directly tackles topics, including but not limited to, fare evasion, federal transit law, unlicensed vending, and justifiable homicide.






Matthew Davis is a writer and software engineer whose debut novel Let Me Try Again is due for release on August 13 from Arcade Publishing.