EVENTS
Chapbook Launch! Twilight Zone Summer by Kayla Sargeson featuring RJ Gibson (In-person & on Zoom!)
Death Drive Press presents Twilight Zone Summer by Kayla Sargeson! Featuring RJ Gibson, author of White Noise :: Something.
Join us for an in-person and Zoom livestream THEMED poetry chapbook launch! Wear your sunhats, sundresses, sunglasses, sunscreen, everything you can possibly think of related to our summery theme! Think this: if when you pick up an item of clothing to dress for this event and you ask, will I freeze my ass off if I go outside? The answer is WEAR IT, WEAR IT, WEAR IT!
Event Details:
Date: 2/2/24
Time: 7PM
Address: 75 Beltzhoover Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15210
Zoom link: https://chatham.zoom.us/j/2994129973?omn=97231645723
Zoom Meeting ID: 299 412 9973
About the Chapbook:
“In Twilight Zone Summer Kayla Sargeson chronicles being a [young] woman in the present moment. She observes the culture & its fads, like the New York School before her, with telling details & a generous irony. Sargeson understands and demonstrates just how complicated not wanting to feel really is. These poems have punk’s snarl & its sense of community.”
—RJ Gibson, author of white noise something
About the Poets:
Kayla Sargeson is the author of Twilight Zone Summer (Death Drive Press) as well as the full-length collection First Red and the chapbooks Head on a Shelf, BLAZE, and Mini Love Gun, all from Main Street Rag. Her poems appear in 5 AM, Cimarron Review, and South Dakota Review. With Lisa Alexander, she co-curates the Laser Cat reading series. Sargeson lives in Pittsburgh where she teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and the Community College of Allegheny County. From January—August 2022, she served as Interim Director of the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops at Carlow University. Instagram: @unpredictablejalapeno
A former Lambda Literary Fellow, RJ Gibson’s work has appeared in Court Green, The Kenyon Review Online, Waxwing, Columbia Poetry Review, and other journals. New work is in an upcoming edition of The Cortland Review. He is the author of three chapbooks: Scavenge, You Could Learn a Lot, and the forthcoming white noise something, all from Seven Kitchens Press. His essays and poems have been anthologized in My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them, Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality, Queer Nature, and Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia. He lives and works in West Virginia.
Independent Press Launch Party & Reading!
Death Drive Press joins Barmecide Press, Dark Mother Press, Queen of Lions Press, Unmarked Pathways Press, Bloom Unique Press, To Be Read Pile Press, and Psithurism Press, launching eight chapbooks in tandem!
Death Drive Press will be there with Lars Peterson, tabling with stickers, bookmarks, our favorite zines, & most important, Lars' chapbook, Sex Life of a Mormon Missionary / La vida sexual de un misonero mormón.
Hear from seven authors, eight editors, and MFA in Creative Writing Program Director, Sheila Squillante. There will be a free raffle with your chance to win one chapbook and other surprises from each press along with free food and drink.
This event is located at Chatham University in the Welker Room of Laughlin Music Hall—parking is free anywhere on campus after 6PM. The space is wheelchair accessible.
There is no fee for entry; masks are optional.