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Boys Behind Glass: A GenX Poetry Play & Launch Party

  • Crosshatch Meeting Place + Mercantile 211 North Bridge Street Bellaire, MI, 49615 United States (map)

Celebrate the launch of Jen Sperry Steinorth's latest book, Boys Behind Glass, with a GenX poetry play and launch party.

Boys Behind Glass is a cheeky documentary of contemporary masculinity through the lens of matchmaking, pop culture, scientific “progress” and female gaze. This third collection from Jennifer Sperry Steinorth continues a trajectory of genre-bending poetry, this time in collaboration with artist Jenny Walton, whose documentary series Match/Enemy creates a visual algorithm of her experience on OKCupid and explores how men-seeking-women represent themselves via anonymity. In the first half of the book, watercolor portraits of single men are paired with irreverent “sonnets” gazing into the mind of a fictional woman looking at the men, looking for love. The second half is a maximalist kaleidoscope, masquerading as elaborate end notes, a diagnostic of loneliness through a wiki-esque labyrinth of technology and iconography. The culmination is a carousal of sex, selfies, heroes, and techies, what we long for & the many ways we hide.

A portion of proceeds benefits the Women's Resource Center.

This event will contain mature themes.

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