Join us in welcoming Anney Bolgiano and Karl Lista in discussing Flat Pack, words and art!

About Flat Pack:

Zadie Smith said "Early on in the crisis, I picked up Marcus Aurelius and for the first time in my life read his Meditations not as an academic exercise, nor in the pursuit of pleasure, but with the same attitude I bring to the instructions for a flat-pack table-I was in need of practical assistance." Anney Bolgiano's Flat-Pack takes this exercise to its logical conclusion, collaging actual IKEA Flat-Pack instructions with text from Meditations, creating something completely new.

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Anney Bolgiano lives in Washington, DC where she teaches writing at Howard University and George Washington University. Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, Nashville Review, DIAGRAM, CTRL+V, Salamander, The Rupture, Thin Air, A Velvet Giant, The Figure One, Frances House, Funny Looking Dog Quarterly, and elsewhere, and her debut visual poetry chapbook, FLAT-PACK, won the 2021 DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press chapbook contest. She is a Pushcart Prize Nominee, past resident of Art Farm Nebraska, and holds an MFA from George Mason University and BA from Guilford College.

Karl Lista is a DC-based multimedia artist, working in paints, ink, sculpture, and fiber arts. Their work focuses on journalistic insights into life, current events, identity, and relationships.

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This event will be held up two flights of stairs. Lost City Books does not have an elevator. The event will also be simultaneously live streamed on our YouTube page!

Flat-Pack and art by Karl Lista will be available at Lost City Books!