EventsThe New Social Environment#957
A Motley Quintet: A Rail Reading curated by Filip Marinovich
Featuring Marinovich, Leah Flax Barber, E. Briskin, Casper Lee, and Ali Pinkney
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Filip Marinovich curates our 161st Wednesday Poetry Reading with Leah Flax Barber, E. Briskin, Casper Lee, and Ali Pinkney.
In this Talk
Leah Flax Barber

Leah Flax Barber is from Chicago. She holds an MFA in poetry from UMass Amherst, where she teaches writing. She lives in Western Massachusetts.
E. Briskin

E. Briskin lives in Seattle. E.’s book Orange is available from Entre Ríos.
Casper Lee

Casper Lee is a poet, originally from Wyoming. They hold an MFA from the University of Montana and participate in various online poetry spaces. They live in Missoula where they organize readings and oversee an unsanctioned animal sanctuary.
Ali Pinkney

Ali Pinkney is a poet with three university degrees in the literary arts who lives in a turret—like Friedrich Hölderlin—in T’karonto (Toronto) Canada where she teaches at the University of Toronto and attends Filip Marinovich’s Motley College virtually. She curated “The Spirit is a Bone” the imminently forthcoming Hegelian issue of Metatron Press’s Glyphöria, and, with Marie Ségolène, she runs a poetry and performance art carnival called Calliope.
Filip Marinovich

Filip Marinovich (aka Wolfman Librarian) is the author of The Suitcase Tree, Wolfman Librarian, And If You Don’t Go Crazy I’ll Meet You Here Tomorrow, and Zero Readership, an Epic. He teaches the roving seminar Shakespearian Motley College in its various incarnations online and live at Torn Page, Chelsea, Manhattan.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨