Archways 1, Molnar Chris, Nicoludis Nicodemus

This includes writers with long careers like Alice Notley, Ishmael Reed and Paul Schrader, but also young writers who need a place to show off their stuff and meet likeminded literati. Archways is the in-house reading series that takes place every few months at POWERHOUSE Arena, our bookstore in downtown Brooklyn across from the Manhattan Bridge archway. Its our home base and a place for authors to present incredible work out of the mainstream. Some we end up publishing (like Gabriel Kruis instant classic Acid Virga, excerpted here), and each one is a vital new voice working at odds with a complacent and hidebound publishing industry.

Every Archways features a limited edition zine of works read at the event. This anthology collects work from the first three readings, held in 2019 and 2020. Every event has a visual component, and weve shared some stills and photos from our incredible visual artists too. Theres nothing quite like the high wire tension of a live reading - but thisll have to do for now.