Please come to The Sunview on Friday, December 6 to help us celebrate the publication of Red Tape, a new novel by Molly Russakoff. Refreshments and beverages, a reading from Red Tape and poems by Garrett Phelps. Copies of the novel will be available for purchase.
Molly Russakoff was born in 1957 in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She was a student in the early days of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute and Stockton Stockton State College in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, which landed her a wide range of mismatched mentors, including Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Kathy Acker, Peter Orlovsky and Stephen Dunn. Her poems have been published in The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Bombay Gin and other magazines.
She’s a longstanding member of Philadelphia’s literary and small business communities. She lives in Philadelphia’s historic Italian Market with her husband, Joe Ankenbrand, where they own and operate Molly’s Books & Records.
Garrett Phelps was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1990. His work has been published by various outlets on- and offline, including BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Action Books, and Fence. He lives in New York City.