Brooklyn Reading Works Presents:

FEAST
savory syllables on sustenance
(writers on food)
The second annual reading and benefit for Helping Hands Food Pantry at St. Augustine Church in Park Slope.

With:
Peter Catapano
Ame Gilbert
Nancy Garfinkel
Greg Fuchs Andrea Israel
Alexander Nazaryan
Sophia Romero
Michele Madigan Somerville

Thursday, December 10th, 8pm
The Old Stone House in JJ Byrne/Washington Park
Between 3rd and 4th Streets on 5th Avenue
Park Slope, Brooklyn 718-768-3195
$ 10.00 donation

Proceeds will be given to Helping Hands Food Pantry at St. Augustine Church in Park Slope.
Helping Hands distributes emergency food supplies to people living in Prospect Heights, Park Slope, and Fort Greene.

Here are the Feast writers:

Peter Catapano has written about music, books, art and food for several publications, including Wired, Salon, ARTNews and The New York Times. His most recent piece, about a love affair — with a pizzeria — gone wrong, appeared in the Times Dining blog.

Greg Fuchs is the author of Board of Education, Came Like It Went, Metropolitan Transit, New Orleans Xmas, Rolling Papers, and Temporary. He is a member of Subpress publishing collective. He is co-editor of Open 24 Hours, which publishes poetry in the spirit of the mimeo-revolution of the 1960s. Fuchs serves as the President of the Board of Directors of the Poetry Project.

Nancy Garfinkel is co-author of The Recipe Club ,The Wine Lover’s Guide to the Wine Country: The Best of Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino. A writer, design consultant, creative strategist, and editor for a wide range of magazine, corporate, and non-profit clients, she has won a host of graphic arts and editorial merit awards. She has written extensively about food and graphic arts.

Ame Gilbert is an art and food person with fingers in many pots. She’s Curator for the Umami: food and art festival, a biennial performance festival coming up in early March. She teaches Culinary Arts to Bronx youth, paid for by a foundation whose mission is literacy. She has a small catering company, is chef for a monthly salon called poetrysciencetalks and is a partner in a company called Communal Table: art shops with supper and a poetry slam. In between multiple online Scrabble games, she writes an occasional poem.

Andrea Israel is a co-author of The Recipe Club , and a producer/writer for ABC’s Focus Earth. She was a producer/writer for Anderson Cooper 360, Dateline, and Good Morning America (which garnered her an Emmy Award). Her story, “In Donald’s Eyes,” was optioned for a film. She is the author of Taking Tea, a guide to the history and ceremony of the drink. Her writing has appeared in many publications
Alexander Nazaryan is an English teacher in Brooklyn. He has written for the Village Voice, New Criterion and other publications, and is working on his first novel, "Golden Youth," about Russian organized crime in Brooklyn.

Sophia Romero is the author of ALWAYS HIDING a novel about illegal immigration and published by William Morrow. Born and raised in Manila, Sophia is a former hotel PR executive and journalist, who writes the SHIKSA FROM MANILA, a blog based on the imaginary life of Amapola Gold, as she romps through life as the other half of an interfaith, intercultural marriage."—-

Poet Michele Madigan Somerville is the author of Black Irish and WISEGAL.