Dustin Luke Nelson is the author of the chapbook "Abraham Lincoln" (Mondo Bummer, 2013). His 90-minute performance film "STRIKE TWO" debut with Gauss PDF and his record-breaking performance APPLAUSE premieres at the Walker Art Center's Open Field in June 2014. He is a founding editor of the literary magazine InDigest and was the host of the InDigest Reading Series in New York City. He is a 2012 National Poetry Series finalist and has recently published work in the Greying Ghost Pamphlet Series, Fence Magazine (forthcoming), Paper Darts, Nervous Breakdown (forthcoming), Opium, 3:AM, and elsewhere. He has had work anthologized in 21 Love Poems (Hell Yes Press) and the Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology. His videopoetry has been screened at the Filmpoem Festival, Artists in Storefronts Minneapolis, Loft 594 gallery (Brooklyn), Spring Break Gallery (Miami), Shoebox Gallery (Minneapolis), the O, Miami Poetry Festival, Moving Poems, Cordite, SCUD, and elsewhere. He was also a writer and producer on Radio Happy Hour, which ran briefly on Minnesota Public Radio, on Geocachers, a web series, and produced an episode of TPT's Are You MN Enough series. His writing has also appeared on The Rumpus, Tiny Mix Tapes, Bookslut, Powells, Guernica, News Makeup, Prefix Magazine, Thought Catalog, Electric Literature, The Hockey Writers, Rotowire, Gone Puck Wild, and elsewhere. He is the co-creator of Timesify, the winner of Cultivated Wit's Comedy Hack Day IV. (Written about in the Washington Post, CNN, NPR's On the Media, New York Observer, and elsewhere.) He lives in Astoria and works at the Greenwich Village music venue and art gallery Le Poisson Rouge. He blogs at blogsareaboutego.blogspot.com.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
07.18 Write Off Debt poetry reading and benefit for Strike Debt @ Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, NY w/ Ashleigh Lambert, Niina Pollari, Allyson Paty, Christopher Salerno, and more
07.25 Short film "Play Godzilla" screening at Altered Esthetics' "It Came From the Q'arma Building" Film Festival @ Southern Theater, Minneapolis, MN - 6pm doors | 7pm screening | Watch the trailer here
09.10 The Disagreement Reading Series: DECAY (themed night) @ CultureFix, NYC
10.08 "Strange Bedfellows" gallery opening, presented by Washington Project for the Arts @ VisArts, Rockville, MD
Features:
"Applause Is What We Make Together" by Laura Holway (Walker Art Center blog)
"Walker's Open Field Event Will Go For Record Two Hours of Applause" by Amy Carlson Gustafson (Pioneer Press)
"Emerging Lit" by Kelly Engebretson (St. Thomas Magazine)
"23 People Who Will Make You Care About Poetry in 2013" by Jason Diamond (Flavorpill)
A Selection of Past Events:
06.28 "I Was Distracted, But I'm Better Now" postcard project @ Arlington Hills Library in St. Paul, MN (11am-4pm, free to attend, free postcards for you to send to a friend)
06.27 Reading at the Fox Egg Gallery in Minneapolis, MN w/ Sarah Certa, Brad Liening, and Jasmin Rae Ziegler - 7pm BYOB
06.26 "Applause" two hours of uninterrupted applause @ The Walker Art Center's Open Field in Minneapolis, MN (5:30-7:30pm, free, open to anyone to join for as long or little as you'd like)
06.15.14 Comedy Hack Day Finals @ Littlefield, Brooklyn (presented Timesify, winner of Comedy Hack Day IV)
06.14.14 Videopoem "Tuba Player" appeared at the 2014 Filmpoem Festival in Antwerp, Belgium
06.01.14 Our Ineluctable Reading Series @ Microlights Cinema in Milwaukee, MN w/ Ashleigh Lambert & Adam Fell
05.05.14 - Vanessa Gabb Chapbook Launch @ Local 61
12.20.13 - Artists in Storefronts - "B4" videopoetry screening @ Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis
10.23.13 - Reading and Hosting at David Moscovich's Launch Party for "You Are Make Very Important Bath Time" @ The Cake Shop, NYC
09.13 - Reading in Northampton, MA
09.14.13 - InDigest presents POETRY & PROJECTIONS: an evening of poets with projections for LitCrawl NYC w/ Dustin Luke Nelson, Randall Horton, Erika Moya, and Dolan Morgan @ The Happy Endings Lounge, NYC
08.03.13 - The Marina Abromovic Institute and the Atlas Review present a marathon reading of Stanislaw Lem's Solaris @ Wythe Hotel, Brooklyn
07.27.13 - Five Quarterly Reading at the New York Poetry Festival @ Governor's Island
07.25.13 - Five Quarterly Anniversary Reading @ Local 61, Brooklyn
06.14.13 - Opening of "The Asshole in the Gallery" @ Loft 594 Gallery (performance of "Bits, Collected")
06.12.13 - Freeloader's Fine w/ John Reed, Leah Umansky, & Dustin Luke Nelson @ Molasses Books, Brooklyn
04.19.13 - Videopoetry Screening for O, Miami Poetry Festival @ Spring Break Gallery, Miami
03.08.13 - InDigest presents the Sam Lipsyte Book Release Party for "The Fun Parts" w/ Mike Doughty @ Le Poisson Rouge, NYC
06.03.12 - I'm reading at the HOWL! Festival, for the Poetry Society of NY, starts at 1pm, I'm reading at 2:30pm
06.13.12 - InDigest Issue #24 Launch Party
07.22.12 - New York Poetry Festival on Governor's Island. InDigest reading at 3:30pm
08.09.12 - InDigest presents An Evening of Flash Fiction
09.15.12 - InDigest does LitCrawl w/ Farrah Field, Ashleigh Lambert, Robert Ostrom, and Niina Pollari, I'm hosting.
10.13.12 - InDigest Reading Series w/ MC Hyland, Dan Magers, and Matt Mauch @ The Gallery at LPR, 7pm
10.17.12 - I'm talking about InDigest and Kickstarter and crowdfunding at the Queens Council on the Arts
11.06 - InDigest Election Night Watch Party at Bar None, NYC
11.14 - InDigest Hurricane Sandy Relief Reading w/ Meakin Armstrong, David Blair, Evan Commander, Ashleigh Lambert, Ricardo Maldonado, David Moscovich, Dustin Luke Nelson, Joseph Riippi, Rodrigo Toscaño, and Leah Umansky
12.14.12 - InDigest 5-Year Anniversary Celebration w/ Andrew Durbin, Jennifer H. Fortin, Lech Harris, Anne Cecelia Holmes, Steven Karl, Nate Pritts, Kathleen Rooney, and Wendy Xu @ The Gallery at LPR, 7pm
12.15.12 From Picasso to Drake: Wine & Creative Inspiration, a panel discussion at Art in Flux
12.21.12 The Last Reading on Earth, Ever: A Marathon Reading of Apocalyptic Writing w/ David Atkinson, Ashleigh Lambert, Gregory Lawless, Brad Liening, Dustin Luke Nelson, Joseph Michael Owens, and more @ the Internet, all the day long
UPCOMING EVENTS:
07.18 Write Off Debt poetry reading and benefit for Strike Debt @ Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, NY w/ Ashleigh Lambert, Niina Pollari, Allyson Paty, Christopher Salerno, and more
07.25 Short film "Play Godzilla" screening at Altered Esthetics' "It Came From the Q'arma Building" Film Festival @ Southern Theater, Minneapolis, MN - 6pm doors | 7pm screening | Watch the trailer here
09.10 The Disagreement Reading Series: DECAY (themed night) @ CultureFix, NYC
10.08 "Strange Bedfellows" gallery opening, presented by Washington Project for the Arts @ VisArts, Rockville, MD
Features:
"Applause Is What We Make Together" by Laura Holway (Walker Art Center blog)
"Walker's Open Field Event Will Go For Record Two Hours of Applause" by Amy Carlson Gustafson (Pioneer Press)
"Emerging Lit" by Kelly Engebretson (St. Thomas Magazine)
"23 People Who Will Make You Care About Poetry in 2013" by Jason Diamond (Flavorpill)
A Selection of Past Events:
06.28 "I Was Distracted, But I'm Better Now" postcard project @ Arlington Hills Library in St. Paul, MN (11am-4pm, free to attend, free postcards for you to send to a friend)
06.27 Reading at the Fox Egg Gallery in Minneapolis, MN w/ Sarah Certa, Brad Liening, and Jasmin Rae Ziegler - 7pm BYOB
06.26 "Applause" two hours of uninterrupted applause @ The Walker Art Center's Open Field in Minneapolis, MN (5:30-7:30pm, free, open to anyone to join for as long or little as you'd like)
06.15.14 Comedy Hack Day Finals @ Littlefield, Brooklyn (presented Timesify, winner of Comedy Hack Day IV)
06.14.14 Videopoem "Tuba Player" appeared at the 2014 Filmpoem Festival in Antwerp, Belgium
06.01.14 Our Ineluctable Reading Series @ Microlights Cinema in Milwaukee, MN w/ Ashleigh Lambert & Adam Fell
05.05.14 - Vanessa Gabb Chapbook Launch @ Local 61
12.20.13 - Artists in Storefronts - "B4" videopoetry screening @ Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis
10.23.13 - Reading and Hosting at David Moscovich's Launch Party for "You Are Make Very Important Bath Time" @ The Cake Shop, NYC
09.13 - Reading in Northampton, MA
09.14.13 - InDigest presents POETRY & PROJECTIONS: an evening of poets with projections for LitCrawl NYC w/ Dustin Luke Nelson, Randall Horton, Erika Moya, and Dolan Morgan @ The Happy Endings Lounge, NYC
08.03.13 - The Marina Abromovic Institute and the Atlas Review present a marathon reading of Stanislaw Lem's Solaris @ Wythe Hotel, Brooklyn
07.27.13 - Five Quarterly Reading at the New York Poetry Festival @ Governor's Island
07.25.13 - Five Quarterly Anniversary Reading @ Local 61, Brooklyn
06.14.13 - Opening of "The Asshole in the Gallery" @ Loft 594 Gallery (performance of "Bits, Collected")
06.12.13 - Freeloader's Fine w/ John Reed, Leah Umansky, & Dustin Luke Nelson @ Molasses Books, Brooklyn
04.19.13 - Videopoetry Screening for O, Miami Poetry Festival @ Spring Break Gallery, Miami
03.08.13 - InDigest presents the Sam Lipsyte Book Release Party for "The Fun Parts" w/ Mike Doughty @ Le Poisson Rouge, NYC
06.03.12 - I'm reading at the HOWL! Festival, for the Poetry Society of NY, starts at 1pm, I'm reading at 2:30pm
06.13.12 - InDigest Issue #24 Launch Party
07.22.12 - New York Poetry Festival on Governor's Island. InDigest reading at 3:30pm
08.09.12 - InDigest presents An Evening of Flash Fiction
09.15.12 - InDigest does LitCrawl w/ Farrah Field, Ashleigh Lambert, Robert Ostrom, and Niina Pollari, I'm hosting.
10.13.12 - InDigest Reading Series w/ MC Hyland, Dan Magers, and Matt Mauch @ The Gallery at LPR, 7pm
10.17.12 - I'm talking about InDigest and Kickstarter and crowdfunding at the Queens Council on the Arts
11.06 - InDigest Election Night Watch Party at Bar None, NYC
11.14 - InDigest Hurricane Sandy Relief Reading w/ Meakin Armstrong, David Blair, Evan Commander, Ashleigh Lambert, Ricardo Maldonado, David Moscovich, Dustin Luke Nelson, Joseph Riippi, Rodrigo Toscaño, and Leah Umansky
12.14.12 - InDigest 5-Year Anniversary Celebration w/ Andrew Durbin, Jennifer H. Fortin, Lech Harris, Anne Cecelia Holmes, Steven Karl, Nate Pritts, Kathleen Rooney, and Wendy Xu @ The Gallery at LPR, 7pm
12.15.12 From Picasso to Drake: Wine & Creative Inspiration, a panel discussion at Art in Flux
12.21.12 The Last Reading on Earth, Ever: A Marathon Reading of Apocalyptic Writing w/ David Atkinson, Ashleigh Lambert, Gregory Lawless, Brad Liening, Dustin Luke Nelson, Joseph Michael Owens, and more @ the Internet, all the day long