# Event Details - **Event Name**: Laura Kolbe presents The Decadent Movement, with Yasmine Seale - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 22 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 22 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Join Laura Kolbe at Community Bookstore for a conversation about her new collection of poetry, The Decadent Movement, with Yasmine Seale.About this EventPlease note that an RSVP doesn't guarantee you a seat. We can accommodate approximately 50 seated and 80 total attendees. If you require a seat, please plan to arrive early.About the book:The Decadent Movement is a book-length suite of poems that spins backward in time through the early days of parenthood and the preceding nine months of pregnancy. Beginning a year after childbirth in the harried throes of marriage and parenting, the collection proceeds toward its finale “Minus Time,” which marvels at death’s near-identical twin – that infinite period of nonexistence that precedes each new life. From the opening poem “Afterword,” each dated poem slides backward in time, with the poem “Hinge” at the manuscript’s midpoint spoken from the moment of childbirth.This unraveling of a predicament by playing it in reverse – “Muybridged / out so anyone could see, framed, a woman / running for her life” – allows for rigorously honest accounting of mixed feelings about motherhood and its accompanying physical and psychic changes, detached from the readymade tropes of the “pregnancy plot.”The Decadent Movement is a book about the fear of loss (of sexual personhood, bodily self-determination, the ability to write, and the license to be headlong and volatile). Yet it is also about the need to insist on new terms of engagement with those we love, new languages of willfulness and desire.About the participants:Laura Kolbe is a physician, medical ethicist, and writer. Her poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry series and in American Poetry Review, Conjunctions, Harper’s, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Her first collection, Little Pharma, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her chapbook Keeping House: Six Longer Love Poems was selected by Kwame Dawes as the Center for Book Arts annual chapbook contest winner. She teaches and practices medicine in New York City.Yasmine Seale is a poet, critic, translator, and currently a Visiting Professor at Columbia University. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brooklyn/laura-kolbe-presents-the-decadent-movement-with-yasmine-seale/100001997775901500 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Art, literary-art, Contests, Nonprofit - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Community Bookstore - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Brooklyn - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Community Bookstore - **lat**: 40.67273729999999 - **long**: -73.9764706 - **full address**: Community Bookstore, 143 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Laura Kolbe presents The Decadent Movement, with Yasmine Seale - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/87d21a634c7d146fe47ca1f1e176e1db4b85967c21cf78b22b84044cbc26c4de-rimg-w1200-h600-dc787848-gmir.jpg?v=1787727785 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Laura Kolbe presents The Decadent Movement, with Yasmine Seale being held? - **A:** Laura Kolbe presents The Decadent Movement, with Yasmine Seale takes place on Tue, 22 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 22 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Community Bookstore, 143 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Laura Kolbe presents The Decadent Movement, with Yasmine Seale? - **A:** Laura Kolbe presents The Decadent Movement, with Yasmine Seale is organized by Community Bookstore. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Laura Kolbe presents The Decadent Movement, with Yasmine Seale", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/87d21a634c7d146fe47ca1f1e176e1db4b85967c21cf78b22b84044cbc26c4de-rimg-w1200-h600-dc787848-gmir.jpg?v=1787727785", "startDate": "2026-09-22T19:00:00-04:00", "endDate": "2026-09-22T20:00:00-04:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/laura-kolbe-presents-the-decadent-movement-with-yasmine-seale/100001997775901500", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Community Bookstore", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "143 7th Avenue", "postalCode": "11215", "addressLocality": "Brooklyn", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.67273729999999", "longitude": "-73.9764706" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join Laura Kolbe at Community Bookstore for a conversation about her new collection of poetry, The Decadent Movement, with Yasmine Seale.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-08-26", "availabilityEnds": "2026-09-22T20:00:00-04:00", "validFrom": "2026-08-26", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/laura-kolbe-presents-the-decadent-movement-with-yasmine-seale/100001997775901500" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-08-26", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-08-26", "url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/laura-kolbe-presents-the-decadent-movement-with-yasmine-seale/100001997775901500", "price": 0, "name": "Free ticket" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Community Bookstore", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/community-bookstore/22815079", "description": "Community Bookstore is Brooklyn's oldes independent bookstore." } ] } ] ```