READING: Jared Harel, Morgan Jerkins, and Rachel Lyon

Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 5 a.m.

b'Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It\\u2019s right here at\\xa0LIC Reading Series. Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and hosted by founder Catherine LaSota.\\nThis week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on March 13, 2018, with Jared Har\\xe9l (Go Because I Love You), Morgan Jerkins (This Will Be My Undoing), and Rachel Lyon (Self-Portrait With Boy). Check back Thursday for the discussion!\\nAbout the Readers:\\nJared Har\\xe9l\\xa0is the author of\\xa0Go Because I Love You\\xa0(Diode Editions, 2018) and\\xa0The Body Double\\xa0(Brooklyn Arts Press, 2012). His poems have appeared in such journals as\\xa0Tin House,\\xa0Threepenny Review, the\\xa0Southern Review,\\xa0Massachusetts Review,\\xa0Poetry Daily,\\xa0Bennington Review,\\xa032 Poems, and\\xa0Newtown Literary. He has received the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from\\xa0American Poetry Review, the William Matthews Poetry Prize from\\xa0Asheville Poetry Review, and an Individual Artist Grant from Queens Council on the Arts. Har\\xe9l teaches writing at Nassau Community College and lives in Queens, New York with his wife and two kids.\\nMorgan Jerkins\\xa0is a contributing editor at Catapult and a former Book of the Month judge. On the freelance side, her work has appeared in\\xa0The New Yorker,\\xa0The New York Times, the\\xa0Atlantic,\\xa0ELLE, Lenny Letter,\\xa0Rolling Stone,\\xa0The New Republic, and BuzzFeed, among many others. Morgan runs a TinyLetter called Meraki. Her debut essay collection,\\xa0This Will Be My Undoing, was released by Harper Perennial, and her next book,\\xa0Wandering in Strange Lands\\xa0comes out later this year.\\nRachel Lyon\\xa0is the author of\\xa0Self-Portrait With Boy, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction\\u2019s 2018 First Novel Prize and the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. Her short work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including\\xa0One Story, Longreads, Joyland, and Electric Literature. Editor-in-Chief of\\xa0Epiphany\\xa0magazine and cofounder of the reading series Ditmas Lit, Rachel has taught at Catapult, the Sackett Street Writers Workshop, Slice Literary, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, her hometown.\\n*\\nThis event was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'