Pershing Field Garden Friends Spring Benefit Reading
I am so happy to be joining writer Sanjay Agnihotri (here is his wonderful story at One Story) and musician Addie Mahmassani in a reading as part of the Pershing Field Garden Friends Spring Benefit. Join us on March 23 at 6:30pm at La Unica Bakery 454 Central Ave Jersey City NJ 07307. There will be an entry fee of $16 (which will benefit this great organization and garden).
From the event organizers:
Pershing Field Garden Friends presents
Spring Bouquets 2018
An evening of music, food and fun to benefit the gardens and programs at Pershing Field.
Friday March 23, 6:30-8:30pm
at La Unica Bakery & Cafe
454 Central Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07307Music by: Addie Mahmassani
Spoken word by: Ananda Lima and Sanjay Agnihotri
Your donation of $16 will include a beverage and a sweet or savory bite.
And for more information: PershingField.org or Facebook.com/pershing-field-ga
Call 201-259-1800 or pfgf2004@gmail.com
Biographies:
Addie Mahmassani is a singer-songwriter, proud to be based in the Jersey City Heights after time in Montclair, Newark, and Arizona. Her songs, distinctive for their theatricality and her high and clear voice, explore heartbreak, America, dreams, and everything in between. Addie is also an instructor and PhD candidate in the Rutgers Newark American Studies program, where she works in performance studies and cultural history. Her debut EP Believe the Birds is out now. Her website is:
Ananda Lima’s work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Rattle, The Offing, PANK and elsewhere. She has an MA in Linguistics (UCLA) and is pursuing her MFA in fiction (Rutgers University, Newark). Ananda was selected for the AWP Writer-to-writer program and serves as staff at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
website: http://www.anandalima
Sanjay Agnihotri was born in Queens, New York City, and raised in New Jersey, India, England, and Saudi Arabia. He is the publisher of Local Knowledge, a literary and art journal, as well as the programmer and host of its long-running reading series in Manhattan. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and daughter. He has recently published his short story Guerrilla Marketing in the literary journal One Story.
http://pershingfield.org/our-o
or call 201-259-1800.
