Propeller Publishers and The GAF proudly present: HEY-HO! HERE ARE SPARROW and VIOLET SNOW

Propeller Publishers and The GAF proudly present:

HEY-HO! 

HERE ARE SPARROW 

and VIOLET SNOW

Two absolutely amazing personalities from the core of New York underground are visiting Berlin with a stop at ivallan’s.

VIOLET SNOW will report some unknown details from the history of European and American feminism. SPARROW is one of the most playful poets on Earth: 

New Theory

I‘m a

partial

   genius.

This poem and many others are included into SPARROW’S new poetry collection “Songs my Father Taught Me“ due to be out at Propeller’s and introduced on this night for our common benefit.

Sparrow lives in a trailer in the snowbound hamlet of Phoenicia, New York with his wife Violet Snow. He has published 11 books, including Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies (Monkfish) and The Princeton Diary (Vinal). His poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Sun, and Reptiles of the Mind. Sparrow writes art reviews for Chronogram. He has run for President of the United States nine times.

Feminism in the early 1900s wasn’t just about getting the vote. Violet Snow‘s great-grandmother expressed her feminism through a women’s club, part of a widespread movement that brought women into public life in the US and in Germany too, through die Frauenvereine. But to the suffragist women, who were marching and hunger striking, the middle-class women’s clubs, both the literary clubs and the social reform groups, seemed unimportant. Violet’s novel To March or to Marry tells the story of two friends whose relationship is falling apart over how women should behave in the struggle for more rights, even as their roles in the world are transforming. Violet Snow is an American journalist and author, living in upstate New York.