Sky Creature Feat. Jeff Dolven at Rizzoli Bookstore

Join us for a unique collaboration: Sky Creaturea feat. Jeff Dolven. The concert is part of the Music Aperitivo concert series, in the intimate atmosphere of the Rizzoli Bookstore. Charge includes complimentary wine glass. Space is limited. Use the Eventbrite ticket to purchase a ticket. Doors open at 4:45 PM, concert starts at 5 PM.

Sky Creature is vocalist Majel Connery and guitarist Matt Walsh. Occupying a space between art music and punk rock, the band's sound elicits comparisons with artists from Kate Bush to Suicide. Walsh toured for over a decade as one half of acclaimed post-punk duo The Forms, sharing the stage with artists ranging from The National to St. Vincent to Hum. Connery’s solo music has been featured on Radiolab, New Sounds radio, and Live from the Kennedy Center. In the summer of 2022, Sky Creature released their double EP Bear Mountain/Childworld, and toured nationally in 42 cities. They are currently finishing their first LP with Steve Albini. Sky Creature is based in Rockaway Beach, NYC. www.skycreature.nyc...

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Join us for a unique collaboration: Sky Creaturea feat. Jeff Dolven. The concert is part of the Music Aperitivo concert series, in the intimate atmosphere of the Rizzoli Bookstore. Charge includes complimentary wine glass. Space is limited. Use the Eventbrite ticket to purchase a ticket. Doors open at 4:45 PM, concert starts at 5 PM.

Sky Creature is vocalist Majel Connery and guitarist Matt Walsh. Occupying a space between art music and punk rock, the band's sound elicits comparisons with artists from Kate Bush to Suicide. Walsh toured for over a decade as one half of acclaimed post-punk duo The Forms, sharing the stage with artists ranging from The National to St. Vincent to Hum. Connery’s solo music has been featured on Radiolab, New Sounds radio, and Live from the Kennedy Center. In the summer of 2022, Sky Creature released their double EP Bear Mountain/Childworld, and toured nationally in 42 cities. They are currently finishing their first LP with Steve Albini. Sky Creature is based in Rockaway Beach, NYC. www.skycreature.nyc

Jeff Dolven

The poems in Jeff Dolven's *A New English Grammar begin from the bad sentences in traditional grammar, the ones marked with an asterisk in the handbooks. They are experiments in making a new language where the counterexample—*he had had gone, *we’ve got any milk, *he was recognizing her—can be exemplary, and therefore also experiments in imagining new worlds.

Each poem is accompanied by an exacting, authoritative, intermittently slant facing-page explanation of the rules it breaks. A theory of poetry as the confusion of mistake and premise develops from the conversation between them. No book can hope to reform all the systematic constraints on English usage, nor to redeem all the foreclosed possibilities of syntax and idiom, but this one makes a start.

Sky Creature recently released a double EP that included arrangements of Jeff's work.

Jeff Dolven is an American academic and poet. He is a professor of English at Princeton University, and the author of numerous books, collections of poems and articles.

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