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Inescapable Rhythms

Inescapable Rhythms

Held on the second Wednesday of each month, Inescapable Rhythms is a poetry reading and open mic series.

This month there is an exciting dual-feature with poets Jason Labbe (Bethany, CT) and Eric Amling (Brooklyn, NY). This is the first in a series of experimental feature formats; stay tuned for December and January.

Eric Amling's most recent chapbook is Nine Live Two-Headed Animals (Greying Ghost Press). His work can be found or forthcoming in the publications Interrupture, The Sink Review, Maggy and Barrelhouse, among others. A graduate of the University of Hartford he lives in his hometown of Brooklyn, NY. 


Jason Labbe is the author of the recent chapbooks Blackwash Canal and Dear Photographer, as well as poems appearing in Poetry, A Public Space, Boston Review,  Conjunctions,  Colorado Review, and other journals. He has an MFA from the University of Virginia, teaches at Southern Connecticut State University, and directs and produces Snake Oil, a music collective with members in New Haven County, Western Massachusetts, and New York City. He has been playing the drums since the age of nine. He lives in Bethany, Connecticut with his wife Melissa.