How to Build A Fire: Denver Butson and Malcolm Allen

WHEN:
Sept 30TH, 2022
8PM (LAST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH)

WHERE:
IN PERSON AT OPEN SOURCE GALLERY

ON ZOOM (Meeting ID: 814 6461 8804)

WHO:
Denver Butson and Malcolm Allen

Note: There is unfortunately a small break in Malcom Allen’s story  due to internet problems.

Malcolm Allen manages a production warehouse in Brooklyn. where he lives with his wife, Sara, and daughters Ruth and Martina. Originally from Baltimore, he writes biographies for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).

Denver Butson (winner of the 2022 Vern Ratsula Poetry Prize and the 2020 William Matthews Prize) has four previous poetry collections and two books with visual artists. Featured on National Public Radio, in the Library of Congress’s Poetry 180  curated by Billy Collins, and in dozens of journals and anthologies, Butson lives in Brooklyn and frequently collaborates with musicians and visual and performing artists.

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Created over seven years ago, How to Build a Fire is a community storytelling series where a diverse group of individuals share real-life, personal narratives centered around a different theme each month. At times funny, at times sad, their stories weave together a broad illustration of the human experience. How to Build a Fire takes place at Open Source Gallery -a welcoming, nurturing, intimate, safe environment- where, monthly, one can see a new exhibition installed by an array of up-and-coming and established visual artists.

Every year, poet and event founder Terence Degnan partners with Open Source Gallery. He selected co-hosts/curators for the past 7 HTBAF seasons. Season 8, Terence returns as curator and host.

This program is supported by the Puffin Foundation