Catherine Fletcher

At the QCA reading with the lit pack. Many thanks to all who came out on Friday! Catherine Fletcher with Mary Lannon, Meera Nair, Jared Harel & Vaughn M. Watson.  Photo by Molaundo Jones.

Please join me on Friday, May 6th as yours truly and fellow travellers in the lit sphere Jared Harel , Mary Lannon , Meera Nair , and Vaughn M. Watson read new work at Queens Council on the Arts. For information about this Queens Writers' Lab reading, visit http://www.queenscouncilarts.org/calendar/2016/5/6/literary-reading .

Catherine's short poem, "Curtains," is out now in the latest issue of The Offing magazine.

Ashraf Fayadh, a 35 year-old Palestinian poet and art curator who lives in Saudi Arabia, has been sentenced to death by a Saudi court on November 17, 2015 for the crime of apostasy and  promoting atheism in his 2008 book of poems,  Instruction Within . Under the auspices of the  International Literature Festival Berlin’s worldwide appeal , New York-based writers participate in a reading of selected poems and other texts in support of Ashraf Fayadh, on Thursday, January 14th, 2016 at 7pm at Terraza 7 Café in Queens.  The reading has been organized by Rattapallax magazine and the First Tuesdays reading series in collaboration with Terraza 7 Café.   Participating artists include Michael Cirelli, Kia Corthron, Ram Devineni, Catherine Fletcher, Mohamad Hodeib, Bob Holman, Kewulay Kamara, Maria Lisella, Vikas Menon, Meera Nair, Idra Novey, Richard J. Newman, Amir Parsa, Roger Sedarat, K.C. Trommer, Va...

New year. New work. I'll be reading at First Tuesdays on January 5th at Terraza 7 Cafe at 40-19 Gleane St in Elmhurst . I hope you can join me.   

A fine gathering of festivalistas at the finale of  Abastro de Letras in Oaxaca, Mexico. Many thanks to Editorial Pharus and the Oaxaca literary community for hosting.  For coverage of the events, please visit the websites of  El Oriente and Diario Rotativo .

Catherine is headed to Oaxaca, Mexico this month for the Abasto de Letras Festival with Lloyd Robson,  Rei Berroa, and Martha Sofia Estevez. Writers, thea tre groups, storytellers, filmmakers, publishers, performance artists, booksellers, and more fill the city’s central market beginning November 12th.