HUA HSU & DANNY RIVERA: A READING & CELEBRATION

4 Fulton Street | Thursday, June 22, 7-9PM

Please join us for an evening of contemporary poetry and prose as we celebrate the work of Hua Hsu and Danny Rivera at 4 Fulton Street.  In collaboration with the independent bookseller, McNally Jackson, this event will be hosted by the arts educator, Steve Rivera.  Recent publications by these writers will also be available to be signed and purchased.

Hua Hsu is a staff writer at The New Yorker.  He is the author “A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific” and the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir “Stay True.”  He is currently a professor of literature at Bard College.  Hua Hsu, Staff Writer at The New Yorker

Danny Rivera is the author of ANCESTRAL THROAT, a poetry chapbook published by Finishing Line Press in 2021.  His poetry and literary criticism have appeared in American Book Review, Western Humanities Review, Washington Square, and other journals.  He lives and teaches in Brooklyn.   www.dannyrivera.co

Steve Rivera received an MFA in Combined Media from CUNY at Hunter College. In the fall of 2012, he opened NOVELLA GALLERY.  Celebrated exhibitions include Full Tilt, curated by John Yau, featuring the work of Gary Stephan, Don Voisine, Louise Belcourt, Marilyn Lerner, Stanley Whitney, Jason Karolak, and Linda Francis; and Peter Williams: The N-Word, an exhibition of paintings in response to the high-profile murders of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice, among countless other African-American men and women. You can find his writing on contemporary art at The Great Fires.

This event is free and open to the public.

—Steve Rivera

06.10.23