The reading series that brought you “A Better Use for Yogurt” and “The Cyclist’s Guide to Pointy Hats” returns again with an evening of readings and genre-bending performances sure to make an omelette of your preconceived notions. Batteries not included but strongly recommended. Do not download this app.

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SPECIAL AMERICA (Claire Donato & Jeff T. Johnson) is an exercise in and an exorcism of American Exceptionalism, based on the spirit of intellectual play—semiotic, humorous, and performative. Incubated in the electronic literature community and spread to the New York City Poetry Industrial Complex, SPECIAL AMERICA presents itself as an analog hack, a gesture toward embodied viral media. Since 2008, SPECIAL AMERICA has incorporated a variety of topics, including ambiguous political speech, American Exceptionalism, adjunct labor, genre and gender politics, 21st century literature, and e-poetics. SPECIAL AMERICA has been described as “the internet,” “always new!” “shouldn’t be necessary, but is,” “another freakin’ marathon,” “singularly unhelpful,” “heavy,” “beautiful,” and “fucking boring.”

T Clutch Fleischmann is the author of Syzygy, Beauty: An Essay. A Nonfiction Editor at DIAGRAM, they live in rural Tennessee.

Nora Wendl seeks to re-define architecture: what its built forms and its histories are, and what they could be. Her works exist on a spectrum between the written artifact and the built artifact, aligning architecture and its histories with the adjacent fields of fiction, poetry, contemporary art and literature. She is co-editor of Contemporary Art about Architecture: A Strange Utility (Ashgate, 2013). Her research has been featured in publications including 306090, Journal of Architectural Education, Invisible City, On Site, and Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, and various architectural and literary conferences, festivals and exhibition venues. She teaches architecture in Portland, Oregon.

Danniel Schoonebeek’s first book of poems, American Barricade, is out now from YesYes Books. A chapbook, Family Album, is also available from Poor Claudia. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Tin House, Boston Review, Fence, BOMB, Indiana Review, Guernica, jubilat, Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. He writes a column on poetry for The American Reader, hosts the Hatchet Job reading series, and edits the PEN Poetry Series.

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