Hearth Gods is a bi-monthly reading series at Jimmy's No. 43, at 43 East 7th Street in the East Village of New York City. Curated by M. Yates Crowley. Email list: myc [at] hearthgods [dot com]

Hearth Gods XXXVI - Non-Fiction Night!

  • [POET has survived several austere months as a resident artist on the moon, when one day he spots something at the bottom of a huge crater. POET gathers all of his best writing and climbs down the crater.
  • At the center he finds a BEER-ALIEN surveying the horizon.
  • He approaches the BEER-ALIEN reverently, holding out his poems and stories in one hand, eyes averted, thinking to himself--Finally, I will be read. Finally, I will be understood...
  • The BEER-ALIEN takes the pages, leafs through them, and hands them back. He turns to face the Earthrise and burbles.]
  • POET:But...but why?!
  • BEER:I MOSTLY READ NONFICTION