The Folding Chair: Archive

Next at TFC ~ May 7, 2013 at 7:30pm ~ Farrah...

Please join us for May 2013’s edition of The Folding Chair. This month’s talented lineup features the following literary luminaries. Cynthia Cruz was born in Germany and raised in Northern California. She is the author of The Glimmering Room (Four Way Books) and Ruin (Alice James Books), and is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and a Hodder Fellowship....

Apr 25th

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Our Second Anniversary ~ April 2, 2013 at 7:30 at...

Come celebrate The Folding Chair’s second anniversary! Tuesday, April 2nd at 7:30 pm, upstairs at 61 Local (61 Bergen Street, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn) Birthday Toast Courtesy of 61 Local & Readings by Will Schutt, Craig Morgan Teicher, Douglas Watson, and Christine Schutt WILL SCHUTT is the author of Westerly, selected by Carl Phillips for the 2012 Yale Series of Younger Poets...

Mar 15th

Next at TFC ~ March 5, 2013 ~ Henry Alford, Marian...

The Ides of March are (almost) upon us, so friends, writers, bibliophiles please join us on Tuesday, March 5, 7:30 at 61 Local for March 2013’s edition of The Folding Chair. This month, TFC features Henry Alford, Marian Lorraine and Amelia Kahaney. HENRY ALFORD is the author of “Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?: A Modern Guide to Manners.” He writes a monthly column about manners for the...

Feb 22nd

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Next at TFC ~ February 5, 2013 ~ Diane Cook, John...

Come in from the cold on Tuesday, February 5, 7:30 at 61 Local for February 2013’s edition of The Folding Chair. This month, TFC features Diane Cook, John Kenney and Tanya Rey. DIANE COOK’s writing is forthcoming in Guernica and Salt Hill. She won the 2012 Italo Calvino Prize for fabulist fiction and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for work in Redivider. She was a producer for...

Jan 29th

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Next at TFC ~ January 8th, 2013 ~ Nicole Fix, Ted...

Please join us to ring in another year with TFC! Tuesday, January 8th, 7:30 pm upstairs at the one and only 61 Local. This month we feature the talents of NICOLE FIX, TED DODSON and JUDY BATALION: NICOLE FIX received an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant and has been awarded fellowships from Can Serrat International Artist Residency, Drisha Institute and Summer Literary Seminars. Recent...

Jan 4th

Next at TFC: December 4th, 2012 ~ Anthony...

It’s a festive chair! Please join us on Tuesday, December 4th upstairs at 61 Local at 7:30 for the last Folding Chair of 2012. This month we feature the talents of: ANTHONY TOGNAZZINI has new work appearing or forthcoming in Guernica, BOMB, Gigantic, Crazyhorse, Forklift Ohio, and TriQuarterly. His fiction collection, I Carry a Hammer in My Pocket for Occasions Such As These, is available from BOA...

Nov 26th

Next at TFC: November 13th, 2012 ~ Anne Ray, Ben...

Please join us on Tuesday, November 13 for the the next installment of The Folding Chair. Please note that this reading takes place on the second Tuesday of the month, rather than the usual first, since November 6 is Election Day. We encourage everyone to get out and VOTE! The Folding Chair is free, but if you wish to take advantage of the wine, beer, and delicious food at Local 61, you’ll...

Nov 3rd

Next at TFC ~ October 2, 2012 ~ Mellini Kantayya,...

MELLINI KANTAYYA is an actor and writer living in Brooklyn, NY. Her recent independent film credits include the Untitled Drake Doremus Project (opposite Amy Ryan and Guy Pierce) and Colin Hearts Kay (Brooklyn International Film Festival, et al). She has appeared on the television show Nurse Jackie and had a recurring supporting role on the daytime serial One Life to Live from 2005-2011. Her book,...

Sep 21st

Next at TFC ~ September 11, 2012 ~ Jan...

JAN BINDAS-TENNEY is mostly an organizer. She spent many years going on strike in Allentown, Pennsylvania and driving circles around New Jersey trying to find lunch ladies to form a union. Now she is organizing about violence and space here in New York City. Jan is also a writer. Her writing has appeared in the mailboxes of dear friends and lovers: urgent communications on ripped up pieces of...

Aug 18th

Next at TFC ~ August 7, 2012 ~ Elizabeth Kadetsky,...

ELIZABETH KADETSKY’s personal essays have appeared in the New York Times, Guernica, Antioch Review, Agni and elsewhere, and her short stories have been chosen for a Pushcart Prize, Best New American Voices and Best American Short Stories notable stories. She has been a fellow at MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the St. James Centre for Creativity in Malta....

Jul 25th

Next at TFC ~ July 10th, 2012 ~ Evan Wilson, Aimee...

Come celebrate poetry, songwriting and fiction! with AIMEE HERMAN, EVAN WILSON & HONOR MOLLOY AIMEE HERMAN is a queer performance poet. She is turned on by gender warriors, semi-colons and farmer’s markets. Her full-length book of poetry, to go without blinking, was recently published by BlazeVOX books. She can be found writing poems on her body in Brooklyn or at:...

Jun 16th

61 Local's Spotlight on The Folding Chair →

Here’s an interview 61 Local did with the occasion of our anniversary reading. For our friends at 61 Local, just so you know, the crush is mutual; in fact, we liked you first.

Jun 16th

Jun 7th

Next at TFC ~ June 5th, 2012 ~ Rachel Cantor,...

Nineteen of RACHEL CANTOR’s stories have appeared in magazines such as the Paris Review, One Story, Ninth Letter, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and DoubleTake. Her stories have been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, and have been short-listed by both the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She lives in Kensington. MARIE-HELENE BERTINO has been a diner waitress, a...

May 15th

Next at TFC ~ May 1, 2012 ~ Keith Varadi,...

Come celebrate May Day and poetry on Tuesday, May 1st at TFC 2:2 at 61 Local, Brooklyn from 7-8:30 pm with KEITH J. VARADI, ANASTASSIIA BOTCHKAREVA and MATT LONGABUCCO. KEITH J. VARADI is an artist, poet, and musician. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1985. He received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011 and his BFA in Painting and...

Apr 18th

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One Year Anniversary of The Folding Chair ~ April...

Please join us for our one year anniversary party of THE FOLDING CHAIR! Tuesday, April 3 from 7-9 pm at 61 Local, 61 Bergen Street Brooklyn, as we celebrate local art, food, and the community it creates. Our illustrious lineup includes CATHY PARK HONG, MORES McWREATH and BEN LERNER. CATHY PARK HONG’s first book, Translating Mo’um was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. Her second...

Mar 9th

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Next at TFC, March 6, 2012: Debora Kuan, Letha...

Pull up a chair for a multimedia TFC with poetry, art and fiction! DEBORA KUAN is a poet, writer, and critic. Her debut collection of poetry, XING, was published in October 2011 by Saturnalia Books. She is the recipient of a Fulbright creative writing fellowship (Taiwan), University of Iowa Graduate Merit Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship, Santa Fe Art Institute...

Feb 21st

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Next at TFC, February 7, 2012: Nicholas Boggs,...

Description Please join us upstairs at 61 Local for words and music at the 11th TFC, with Nicholas Boggs, Margaret Glaspy and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan. NICHOLAS BOGGS is working on his first book, a personal account of his search for the untold story of James Baldwin’s collaboration with the French painter Yoran Cazac. His work has appeared in the anthology James Baldwin Now (NYU Press),...

Feb 2nd

Next at TFC, January 10, 2012: Mark Sullivan, Will...

Please join us for our 10th Folding Chair reading on Tuesday, January 10th at 7 pm upstairs at 61 Local (61 Bergen St, BK). It’s an all poetry set with HANNA ANDREWS, WILL SCHUTT & MARK SULLIVAN. Come early and stay late for local beer, wine, kombucha and light fare in a convivial space. HANNA ANDREWS is the co-editor of the feminist poetry press Switchback Books. She works as an editor...

Jan 3rd

Next at TFC, December 6th: Alex Tilney, Laurence...

ALL PROSE LINE-UP: Alex Tilney has an MFA in fiction writing from Warren Wilson College and has been published in The Southwest Review. He was a recent artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony. Laurence Klavan has had short work published in such literary magazines as The Alaska Quarterly, Conjunctions, The Literary Review, Natural Bridge, and Pank, and a collection is forthcoming from...

Nov 22nd

Next at TFC, November 1st: Eric Amling, Ben Fain...

TFC is very pleased to host this fierce posse of local writers: Eric Amling: http://www.humanhairandco.org/ Matvei Yankelevich: http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/about/people/matvei-yankelevich/ And a special film screening by Ben Fain: http://www.benfain.com/ See you soon — same time, same place, 7pm at 61 Local.

Oct 12th

Next at TFC: October 4th ~ Chris Hosea, Jonathan...

Poetry by Chris Hosea: http://chrishosea.com Jonathan Thirkield: www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20965 Songwriting by Rowland Stebbins: www.myspace.com/rowlandstebbins Looking forward: Eric Amling, Alex Tilney, Kristina Baranovich, Katie Pfohl, Will Schutt, Mark Sullivan and more… Always at the same time, same place: 7pm, 61 Local. Please join us!

Sep 20th

Next at TFC: September 6th ~ Timothy Donnelly,...

Timothy Donnelly earned his BA from The Johns Hopkins University and his MFA in Poetry from Columbia University’s MFA Program for Poets & Writers. He is a professor at Columbia University and has been the poetry editor of Boston Review since 1995. Donnelly is the author of Twenty-Seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove Press, 2003), and The Cloud Corporation (Wave...

Aug 10th

Next at TFC: August 2nd ~ Caolan Madden, Rob...

Poetry by Caolan Madden Fiction by Michael Tedesco Poetry by Rob Crawford Looking forward: Timothy Donnelly, Rowland Stebbins, Eric Amling, Alex Tilney and more… First Tuesday of every month, same time, same place. JOIN US!

Jul 16th

PREVIOUSLY AT TFC...

AUGUST 2, 2011 MICHAEL TEDESCO ROB CRAWFORD CAOLAN MADDEN JULY 5, 2011 MARY AUSTIN SPEAKER CHRIS MARTIN SIMON BEINS JUNE 7, 2011 BENITA HUSSAIN TIMOTHY STANLEY THERESA COULTER MAY 3, 2011 DANICA NOVGORODOFF NICOLE FIX JOSEPH GULEZIAN APRIL 5, 2011 SAM FRANK GIDEON LEWIS-KRAUS RACHEL ROTHBART PRUDENCE PEIFFER OANA MARIAN

Jul 16th

Next at TFC: July 5th ~ Mary Austin Speaker, Chris...

Poetry by Mary Austin Speaker http://www.maryaustinspeaker.com/ Chris Martin http://www.coffeehousepress.org/2011/02/becoming-weather/ Original songs by Simon Beins: http://www.thefishermenthree.com/ And looking forward: Robert Crawford, Caolan Madden, Michael Tedesco, Timothy Donnelly, Eric Amling and more… First Tuesday of every month, same time, same place.

May 20th