• Wings: a queer perfomance with CareOzen Météore

    PLEASE NOTE: This event is a short performance by our current resident. Length: 15 mins. PLEASE BE ON TIME CareOzen Météore is a drag monster from the moon. He descends to Earth to offer love and tenderness when the world becomes too much, then flies into a rage at the world being "too much." He oscillates between poetic tenderness and […]

  • The Yahoo Boys with Carlos Barragán

    Desperate Literature calle de la cava baja 8, Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain

    “A nonfiction book which really knocked me out . . . It’s incredible . . . An extraordinary piece of reporting.” —Patrick Radden Keefe, The Long Game podcast “What produced feels miraculous: journalism that is simultaneously funny, devastating, wildly intimate, and righteous without veering into moralism.” —Kate Knibbs, Wired (Book Club Pick) An astonishing work of immersion journalism about four […]

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  • Self-Help from the Middle Ages with Peter Jones

    "a treat for the history glutton." –Irina Dumitrescu. A tour through the medieval mind and culture. Terry and Inés will guide us into Peter Jones's Self-Help from the Middle Ages, and whether you need mental health advice from the mystics or a history lesson, you'll be in the right place. About the book: In Self-Help from the Middle Ages, Jones […]

  • Casa Poética Open Mic

    SEE CLUBS PAGE FOR ALL WORKSHOPS AND BOOKCLUBS Alejandra Pizarnik: You write poems because you need a place where what isn’t may be. Can we hide in language? Can we use language to say the unsayable? What is it that cannot be said? This season, we will enter the world of Alejandra Pizarnik (Buenos Aires, 1936–1972) through a selection of poems in […]