Topos Press Launch Party &
It Was Over When You Said What 
Book Launch
Honey’s, Brooklyn
April 25th, 2017

readings from

Mitra Kaboli // Madeline Coleman // Drew Nelles
// Artemis Shaw // Anny Oberlink // Kira Josefsson // Julie Alsop

thanks to Max Pearl for the music

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About Topos Press



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Kira Josefsson
about It Was Over When You Said What,
and reading a piece by Julie Alsop

“the new you is not interested in being or becoming
or maybe you are becoming something but
that thing you are becoming is a smoker”  




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Madeline Coleman

“What came later was better, then worse;
we undulated in and out of focus,
too close for our eyes to adjust.”




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Anny Oberlink

“and is it us,
or is it me and you,
or you and me?”



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Artemis Shaw

“Are you wondering if cheating on your girlfriend
bars you forever from getting respectably paid and
ethically minded employment?”



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Drew Nelles

“The metaphor was too obvious, I said.
The wounded bird. We tried to save it but it was
dying anyway. If this were fiction nobody would buy it.”



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Mitra Kaboli

“I’m clutching my tissue like a Roman rosary
praying I pass on my sickness to him.”




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Kira Josefsson

“You said, I like the way we look walking
together down the street.
I often thought about how we admired
and desired ourselves in each other.”




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Thanks to everyone who came out on this rainy night, and much gratitude to all contributors. We love you all.
 
xo Kira, Anny, Julia and Sara

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