Join us on Tuesday, March 14th at 7pm PT when Sadie Dupuis celebrates her poetry collection, Cry Perfume, with Lio Min at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link ABOVE
Praise for Cry Perfume
"Cry Perfume is a bouquet of delights, especially rich in the moments where a reader can be a joyful audience to the way Sadie Dupuis makes language malleable, playful, bends it towards the hidden sounds tucked within. Especially rich in the images, in the scenes that make you feel like you have lived them, and cannot wait to live them again. This is a book of immense pleasure, and I am so thankful for it." --Hanif Abdurraqib
"Lively pleasures and searing explorations that are worth revisiting." --Publisher's Weekly
About Cry Perfume
The title of Cry Perfume is an imperative to bottle sorrow in a beautiful vessel and shed the chemicals that cloud your sight. Written over a four-year period on tour and after losing loved ones and peers to overdose, Dupuis funneled complicated grief into harm reduction advocacy, working to fundraise for and distribute overdose prevention resources in venues internationally.
The slick performativity of pop, punk humor, electronic glitch and sampling, and the surprising leaps of improvisation influence these poems, but beyond music, these poems are informed by Dupuis's larger concerns about justice and organizing. Cry Perfume is a hopeful but realistic inventory of the virtues and evils that emerge when arts and tech collide. Those dualities are cloaked in the same sparkling fragrance, and there are twinned pleasures and regrets in parting the smokescreen.
About Sadie Dupuis
Sadie Dupuis is the guitarist, songwriter & singer of rock band Speedy Ortiz, as well as the producer & multi-instrumentalist behind pop project Sad13. Sadie heads the record label Wax Nine, edits its poetry journal, and has written for outlets including Spin, Nylon, and Playboy. She holds an MFA in poetry from UMass Amherst, where she also taught writing. Mouthguard, her first book, was published in 2018 (Gramma); Cry Perfume, a second poetry collection, releases October 2022 via Black Ocean. Her most recent studio album is Sad13's Haunted Painting (2020). She is an organizer with the Union of Musicians & Allied Workers and its local UMAW Philly.
About Lio Min
Lio Min has listened to, played and performed, and written about music for most of their life. Their debut novel Beating Heart Baby is about boys, bands, and Los Angeles. They've profiled and interviewed acts including Japanese Breakfast, Rina Sawayama, MUNA, Caroline Polachek, Christine and the Queens, Raveena, Tei Shi, Speedy Ortiz, and Mitski.
About Amy Berkowitz
Amy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points, rereleased by Nightboat Books in 2019. Her writing and conversations have appeared in publications including Bitch, The Believer, BOMB, McSweeney's, Jewish Currents, and Wolfman New Life Quarterly. She's the host of the Amy's Kitchen Organics reading series and the founder of Mondo Bummer, an experimental small press. From 2017 to 2020, she co-coordinated the writing residency at Alley Cat Books, and in 2016, she co-organized Sick Fest. Her work has received support from the Hopwood Program, the Anderson Center at Tower View, This Will Take Time, Small Press Traffic, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Berkowitz lives in a rent-controlled apartment in San Francisco, where she's writing a novel.
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link ABOVE
Praise for Cry Perfume
"Cry Perfume is a bouquet of delights, especially rich in the moments where a reader can be a joyful audience to the way Sadie Dupuis makes language malleable, playful, bends it towards the hidden sounds tucked within. Especially rich in the images, in the scenes that make you feel like you have lived them, and cannot wait to live them again. This is a book of immense pleasure, and I am so thankful for it." --Hanif Abdurraqib
"Lively pleasures and searing explorations that are worth revisiting." --Publisher's Weekly
About Cry Perfume
The title of Cry Perfume is an imperative to bottle sorrow in a beautiful vessel and shed the chemicals that cloud your sight. Written over a four-year period on tour and after losing loved ones and peers to overdose, Dupuis funneled complicated grief into harm reduction advocacy, working to fundraise for and distribute overdose prevention resources in venues internationally.
The slick performativity of pop, punk humor, electronic glitch and sampling, and the surprising leaps of improvisation influence these poems, but beyond music, these poems are informed by Dupuis's larger concerns about justice and organizing. Cry Perfume is a hopeful but realistic inventory of the virtues and evils that emerge when arts and tech collide. Those dualities are cloaked in the same sparkling fragrance, and there are twinned pleasures and regrets in parting the smokescreen.
About Sadie Dupuis
Sadie Dupuis is the guitarist, songwriter & singer of rock band Speedy Ortiz, as well as the producer & multi-instrumentalist behind pop project Sad13. Sadie heads the record label Wax Nine, edits its poetry journal, and has written for outlets including Spin, Nylon, and Playboy. She holds an MFA in poetry from UMass Amherst, where she also taught writing. Mouthguard, her first book, was published in 2018 (Gramma); Cry Perfume, a second poetry collection, releases October 2022 via Black Ocean. Her most recent studio album is Sad13's Haunted Painting (2020). She is an organizer with the Union of Musicians & Allied Workers and its local UMAW Philly.
About Lio Min
Lio Min has listened to, played and performed, and written about music for most of their life. Their debut novel Beating Heart Baby is about boys, bands, and Los Angeles. They've profiled and interviewed acts including Japanese Breakfast, Rina Sawayama, MUNA, Caroline Polachek, Christine and the Queens, Raveena, Tei Shi, Speedy Ortiz, and Mitski.
About Amy Berkowitz
Amy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points, rereleased by Nightboat Books in 2019. Her writing and conversations have appeared in publications including Bitch, The Believer, BOMB, McSweeney's, Jewish Currents, and Wolfman New Life Quarterly. She's the host of the Amy's Kitchen Organics reading series and the founder of Mondo Bummer, an experimental small press. From 2017 to 2020, she co-coordinated the writing residency at Alley Cat Books, and in 2016, she co-organized Sick Fest. Her work has received support from the Hopwood Program, the Anderson Center at Tower View, This Will Take Time, Small Press Traffic, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Berkowitz lives in a rent-controlled apartment in San Francisco, where she's writing a novel.
Join us on Tuesday, March 14th at 7pm PT when Sadie Dupuis celebrates her poetry collection, Cry Perfume, with Lio Min at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link ABOVE
Praise for Cry Perfume
"Cry Perfume is a bouquet of delights, especially rich in the moments where a reader can be a joyful audience to the way Sadie Dupuis makes language malleable, playful, bends it towards the hidden sounds tucked within. Especially rich in the images, in the scenes that make you feel like you have lived them, and cannot wait to live them again. This is a book of immense pleasure, and I am so thankful for it." --Hanif Abdurraqib
"Lively pleasures and searing explorations that are worth revisiting." --Publisher's Weekly
About Cry Perfume
The title of Cry Perfume is an imperative to bottle sorrow in a beautiful vessel and shed the chemicals that cloud your sight. Written over a four-year period on tour and after losing loved ones and peers to overdose, Dupuis funneled complicated grief into harm reduction advocacy, working to fundraise for and distribute overdose prevention resources in venues internationally.
The slick performativity of pop, punk humor, electronic glitch and sampling, and the surprising leaps of improvisation influence these poems, but beyond music, these poems are informed by Dupuis's larger concerns about justice and organizing. Cry Perfume is a hopeful but realistic inventory of the virtues and evils that emerge when arts and tech collide. Those dualities are cloaked in the same sparkling fragrance, and there are twinned pleasures and regrets in parting the smokescreen.
About Sadie Dupuis
Sadie Dupuis is the guitarist, songwriter & singer of rock band Speedy Ortiz, as well as the producer & multi-instrumentalist behind pop project Sad13. Sadie heads the record label Wax Nine, edits its poetry journal, and has written for outlets including Spin, Nylon, and Playboy. She holds an MFA in poetry from UMass Amherst, where she also taught writing. Mouthguard, her first book, was published in 2018 (Gramma); Cry Perfume, a second poetry collection, releases October 2022 via Black Ocean. Her most recent studio album is Sad13's Haunted Painting (2020). She is an organizer with the Union of Musicians & Allied Workers and its local UMAW Philly.
About Lio Min
Lio Min has listened to, played and performed, and written about music for most of their life. Their debut novel Beating Heart Baby is about boys, bands, and Los Angeles. They've profiled and interviewed acts including Japanese Breakfast, Rina Sawayama, MUNA, Caroline Polachek, Christine and the Queens, Raveena, Tei Shi, Speedy Ortiz, and Mitski.
About Amy Berkowitz
Amy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points, rereleased by Nightboat Books in 2019. Her writing and conversations have appeared in publications including Bitch, The Believer, BOMB, McSweeney's, Jewish Currents, and Wolfman New Life Quarterly. She's the host of the Amy's Kitchen Organics reading series and the founder of Mondo Bummer, an experimental small press. From 2017 to 2020, she co-coordinated the writing residency at Alley Cat Books, and in 2016, she co-organized Sick Fest. Her work has received support from the Hopwood Program, the Anderson Center at Tower View, This Will Take Time, Small Press Traffic, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Berkowitz lives in a rent-controlled apartment in San Francisco, where she's writing a novel.
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link ABOVE
Praise for Cry Perfume
"Cry Perfume is a bouquet of delights, especially rich in the moments where a reader can be a joyful audience to the way Sadie Dupuis makes language malleable, playful, bends it towards the hidden sounds tucked within. Especially rich in the images, in the scenes that make you feel like you have lived them, and cannot wait to live them again. This is a book of immense pleasure, and I am so thankful for it." --Hanif Abdurraqib
"Lively pleasures and searing explorations that are worth revisiting." --Publisher's Weekly
About Cry Perfume
The title of Cry Perfume is an imperative to bottle sorrow in a beautiful vessel and shed the chemicals that cloud your sight. Written over a four-year period on tour and after losing loved ones and peers to overdose, Dupuis funneled complicated grief into harm reduction advocacy, working to fundraise for and distribute overdose prevention resources in venues internationally.
The slick performativity of pop, punk humor, electronic glitch and sampling, and the surprising leaps of improvisation influence these poems, but beyond music, these poems are informed by Dupuis's larger concerns about justice and organizing. Cry Perfume is a hopeful but realistic inventory of the virtues and evils that emerge when arts and tech collide. Those dualities are cloaked in the same sparkling fragrance, and there are twinned pleasures and regrets in parting the smokescreen.
About Sadie Dupuis
Sadie Dupuis is the guitarist, songwriter & singer of rock band Speedy Ortiz, as well as the producer & multi-instrumentalist behind pop project Sad13. Sadie heads the record label Wax Nine, edits its poetry journal, and has written for outlets including Spin, Nylon, and Playboy. She holds an MFA in poetry from UMass Amherst, where she also taught writing. Mouthguard, her first book, was published in 2018 (Gramma); Cry Perfume, a second poetry collection, releases October 2022 via Black Ocean. Her most recent studio album is Sad13's Haunted Painting (2020). She is an organizer with the Union of Musicians & Allied Workers and its local UMAW Philly.
About Lio Min
Lio Min has listened to, played and performed, and written about music for most of their life. Their debut novel Beating Heart Baby is about boys, bands, and Los Angeles. They've profiled and interviewed acts including Japanese Breakfast, Rina Sawayama, MUNA, Caroline Polachek, Christine and the Queens, Raveena, Tei Shi, Speedy Ortiz, and Mitski.
About Amy Berkowitz
Amy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points, rereleased by Nightboat Books in 2019. Her writing and conversations have appeared in publications including Bitch, The Believer, BOMB, McSweeney's, Jewish Currents, and Wolfman New Life Quarterly. She's the host of the Amy's Kitchen Organics reading series and the founder of Mondo Bummer, an experimental small press. From 2017 to 2020, she co-coordinated the writing residency at Alley Cat Books, and in 2016, she co-organized Sick Fest. Her work has received support from the Hopwood Program, the Anderson Center at Tower View, This Will Take Time, Small Press Traffic, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Berkowitz lives in a rent-controlled apartment in San Francisco, where she's writing a novel.
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