Wednesday, April 13 /  7 PM / Free

Howl! Happening is pleased to present a series of readings and multimedia events curated by writer and publisher Mike DeCapite with his long-time collaborator, photographer Ted Barron. The Sparkle Street Social & Athletic Club series brings together writers and creators sharing a downtown sensibility and an engagement with the present moment. Cutting across the reality of New York’s gritty urban environment, they turn words and pictures into stories that illustrate the way in which a fleeting moment can evoke the poetry of the city, its changing atmosphere, and the bittersweetness of the human condition. The series continues on May 11 and June 12, and will include:

A multimedia presentation of collaborations between between Mike DeCapite and Ted Barron. DeCapite will read from his novel Ruined for Life! and other sources, while Barron projects photographs taken during the course of their long association.

A multimedia reading by Maggie Dubris from Broke-Down Palace: a history in poems of Saint Clare’s—the Hell’s Kitchen hospital where Dubris worked as an EMT for years—accompanied by Dubris’s short films. Dubris’s published work includes WillieWorld, brought out as a CUZ Edition by Richard Hell, the collection Weep Not, My Wanton (Black Sparrow), the novel Skels (Soft Skull), and the 9/11 first-responder meditation In the Dust Zone (Centre-Ville Books).

A multimedia presentation of East of Bowery, based on Ted Barron and Drew Hubner’s book of that name, featuring Barron’s photographs, Hubner’s short fiction about streetlife on the Lower East side in the 1980s, and music by jazz musicians Daniel Carter and Reuben Radding.