Montez Press February News

Read and re-read the new edition of Oliver Reed by Hannah Regel

The second edition of Oliver Reed, published February 2024, includes a newly commissioned introduction by Olivia Kan-Sperling.

In Oliver Reed, growing-up happens naturally, clip clip clop, at the same time as it requires someone or something—line break or literal incision—to break you in. Oliver Reed is about how a pony body gets trained and a pony mind gets educated, over and over and over again. Time, in this book, loops more than it progresses: “Sorry attends her Birth” after “Sorry is a Girl, Grown Up.” I wish I’d read Oliver Reed at fourteen or eighteen; then again, I sort of feel like I did. This we already know: if looking at young girls never gets old, writing about them doesn’t, either.
— Olivia Kan-Sperling, editor at The Paris Review and author of Island Time

Hannah Regel has two published collections of poetry, When I Was Alive and Oliver Reed (both Montez Press, 2017 and 2020). Her debut novel, The Last Sane Woman, will be published in July 2024 by Verso. She lives in London and works as an editor at Book Works.

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January Interjection: HEGEMON by Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro

Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro is a writer. She is the editor of Dream of Europe: selected seminars and interviews: 1984-1992, a collection of unpublished seminars and interviews by Audre Lorde (Kenning Editions, 2020). She is the recipient of the John F. Kennedy Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship (Freie Universität Berlin, 2018) and Anne Waldman Fellowship (Naropa University, 2019). Her words have been hosted by Dia Art Foundation, De Appel, Amant Foundation, The Brooklyn Rail, Social Text, Changes Press Review, and The Poetry Project among others.

→ Read Mayra’s Interjection here

February Interjection: (STANDING IN) THE WAY by raphaëlle red

raphaëlle red is a Berlin-based writer of fiction and experimental prose. raphaëlle’s debut novel, ADIKOU (Grasset, 2024 & Rowohlt, 2024) is a coming-of-age roadtrip that explores the complexities of Afrodiasporic heritage within a web of brutal, resistant and tender histories. Further writing in French, English and German has appeared in publications including Bella Triste, The Funambulist, L’Humanité, and gal-dem.

→ Read raphaëlle’s writing here

MPR February Schedule

Saturday 17th February live from Artists Space for the Segue Reading Series with Lonnie Holly and Lee Bains

Wednesday 21st February with Extra Extra, Martin Rombouts, Bradley Kronz, In Vitro, Celine, Suicide Moi (Julian Flavin, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Liz Vitlin), and Angel [removed];

Thursday 22nd February from London with How to Sleep Faster (Arcadia Missa), Michaela Cullen, okcandice, Babeworld, Rina Meta, The Funambulist Magazine and MVcoko, and then back in NY for Club Wonder with readings by Cristine Brache, Ted Dodson, Ben Fama, Maya Martinez, [removed] Pulgar, Chariot Wish and music from Kelpy Cathedral.

Friday 23rd February with Stanley Schtinter, Emmanuel Olunkwa, Joanne Zwirner, [removed] with Meg Miller, Sharon Neema, Michelle Santiago Cortes, Rigoberto Lara Guzmán, James Loop, Montana James Thomas, [removed] Audio Arts, Torn Hawk, Ivan Berko, Accdntl Dred, Schema 7, Bentley Anderson, Tenaya Nasser-Frederick, Tilghman Goldsborough, Lori-May Cruz Orillo, Zoe Brezsny, and Roxy Farman.

Saturday 24th February live from Artists Space for the Segue Reading Series with Alexandra Auder and Stephanie Lacava

Sunday 25th February with Storefront for Art and Architecture
 

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MPR & Montez Press