Please join us for INTHEFRAY Live! — a benefit for INTHEFRAY.org!
INTHEFRAY is an online magazine with commentary, images, and literature
that inspire conversations about identity and community. The benefit
reading and performance will include essays, poetry, and more read by
INTHEFRAY contributors and friends: Sarah Seltzer, Meera Subramanian,
Rachel Van Thyn, Aimee Walker, Daniel Wolff, and surprise guests!
Date: May 6, 7-9 p.m.
Location: Parkside Lounge, 317 East Houston Street between Ave. B and C (at Attorney street). F train to 2nd Avenue.
Suggested Donation: $10
Check inthefray.org/benefit for updates. For more information about the magazine, go to inthefray.org.
Daniel Wolff, besides being a long-term member of the advisory
committee for INTHEFRAY, is a Grammy-nominated music writer with poetry
published in mags from The Paris Review to The Aquarian Weekly, nonfiction that includes his last book, Born to Run: The Unseen Photos, and a producer's credit on an ongoing documentary film project about New Orleans directed by Jonathan Demme.
Andrew Blackwell is a Canadian American editor, director, and writer whose work has been broadcast on PBS, NPR, and various places internationally. While living in Colombia he was editor and consulting producer of the documentary La Sierra, about paramilitary gangs in Medellín. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for INTHEFRAY. He lives in New York City.
Sarah Seltzer is a freelance writer based in New York City. In addition to INTHEFRAY, her work has appeared in Bitch, the Los Angeles Times, Venus Zine, and more. She pens a weekly column on pop culture for RH Reality Check, a reproductive justice website, and is a regular book reviewer for Publishers Weekly.
Meera Subramanian lives in Brooklyn and writes about culture and the environment for INTHEFRAY, The New York Times, Salon, Audubon, Grist, and others. She is currently working on a book about the peregrine falcons of New York City.
Aimee Walker is a New York City-based poet and Vice President
of the Board of Directors for INTHEFRAY. Her work has appeared or is
forthcoming in The Paris Review, Heliotrope, Rattapallax, and the Grolier Poetry Prize anthology. She has received scholarships and grants from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund.
Rachel Van Thyn is a not-so-recent transplant from Toronto, Canada, by way of Montreal. She currently works for AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps
— a nonprofit that runs a service corps program for young Jews in their
20s, that combines social justice work and Jewish study. Rachel lives
in Brooklyn and enjoys reading, writing, doing ballet, pretending to
bake, and walking goats at harvest festivals in Red Hook. She is
thankful for her friends and family, as well as INTHEFRAY.
Please help us by spreading the word. Thanks for your support!
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