from Kaveh Bassiri
Dear Triptych Readings friends,
Some of you may know that I'm Literary Arts Director of the Persian Arts Festival, which has a Shab-e She’r, Persian Poetry Night, at Bowery Poetry Club. In solidarity with the struggle for democracy in Iran, the Persian Arts Festival, the Association of Iranian American Writers, ArteEast, and The Translation Project are hosting a gathering of writers to bear witness to the courage and aspirations of millions of Iranians and to condemn the repression against peaceful protestors. We have many wonderful readers, such as Cornelius Eady, Luis Francia, D. Nurkse, and Eleanor Wilner, along with Iranian-American writers Amir Parsa, Roger Sedarat, Dalia Sofer, and Said Sayrafiezadeh. They will be reading from Iranian resistance literature, classical to modern, to poems about the current events. The evening will also include live musical performances and will be streamed on the Bowery Poetry Club’s site (www.bowerypoetry.com). We hope you can join us and share in our support for this historic struggle.
Literature of Resistance:
An Afternoon in Solidarity with the Iranian People
Saturday, July 11, 2009
2:00-5:00 PM
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (btwn Houston & Bleecker)
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Some Friends Are Busier Than Me
Blue Print Review Issue 21 is up featuring fiction from my friends, Nicole Wong and Molly Gaudry.
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10 questions about Reb Livingston's editorial chops for No Tell Motel here
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Brooklyn Copeland's new chapbook is already sold-out. Brooklyn is as talented as she is bad-ass. Adam Fieled has some brilliant insights into her work.
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Sommer Browning is reading poems and presenting comix (I don't know what that means!) on Friday for the issue release of Drunken Boat 10 in a real live Chelsea Gallery!
with these amazing people: derek beaulieu, Rand Richards Cooper, Sharon Dolin, Ram Devineni, Elizabeth Kadetsky, Harriet Levin & Elisabeth Subrin!
July 10th, 6-8 pm
SoHo20 Gallery
511 West 25th St.
Suite 605
between 10th & 11th Avenues
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The new issue of Drunken Boat is here
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Hong-An Truong is doing this:
PECHA KUCHA FREESTYLE
curated by Anaïs Lellouche & Hajnalka Somogyi
ISCP is pleased to announce Picture Parlor IV: 'Pecha Kucha Freestyle' on July 10, 2009 8-10PM. The event will be held on and around the loading dock at ISCP and will bring together artists, architects and curators.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Olivier Babin (ISCP) | Rhys Coren (ISCP) | Koenraad Dedobbeleer (ISCP) Baris Gokturk | Adam Kleinman | Liz Magic Laser | Vaclav Magid (ISCP) John Menick | Bjargey Olafsdottir (ISCP) | Anna Ostoya | Jochen Plogsties & Ivy Haldeman (ISCP) | Alexandre Singh | Samu Szemerey | Hong-An Truong | Wendy Vogel
LIVE MUSIC BY:
MOTMOT (motmot.org)
One often-claimed asset of residency programs is that creative people working in close proximity might inspire one another. You put together twenty-something cultural producers from all over the world into a building (in a city where, so it seems, every fifth person works in the arts anyways), you let them stroll around town, meet their peers and other people and new ideas will spark, art will flourish. When curators visit the studios, what they first get is usually a standard presentation of the artist's work of the past few years; however, the “real” discussion begins when all the collateral stories, ideas and experiences are put onto the table. On a summer night event, shouldn't we skip the first part and see how “inspiration” works?
'Pecha Kucha' (chatter in Japanese), is an international social event initiated by architects who were tired of never-ending presentations by their verbose colleagues. It consists of a series of slide projections by the participants who also comment on the visuals. It has strict rules: one can present twenty slides for twenty seconds each, which allows everyone to speak and shine for no less and no more than 6 minutes and 40 seconds. So far, Pecha Kucha has been usually mistaken as a tool for presenting one's own projects “fast food style”; we suggest that it has an even greater potential in triggering a chat about anything but one's oeuvre.
On the occasion of Pecha Kucha Freestyle, participants – ISCP residents, and artists, curators and architects from NYC – were asked to present on anything that goes on in their minds; to share impulses, memories or obsessions that influence their work, to tell true stories, fiction, and lies, to impart theories and suspicions that inform their thinking process. You won't see their artworks, we don't even promise that you will get a thorough insight into how art works. However, this playful format will certainly allow for a jam of eclectic source materials, quickly alternating between slapstick and serious, performative and poetic, found, archived and invented; giving you long-awaited translations of eighties Russian punk-rock, Sempé comics on NYC, the secret systems of bank vestibules, and animal presenters, mustaches and mullets... You will want more.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
10 questions about Reb Livingston's editorial chops for No Tell Motel here
++++++++++++++++++++++++
Brooklyn Copeland's new chapbook is already sold-out. Brooklyn is as talented as she is bad-ass. Adam Fieled has some brilliant insights into her work.
++++++++++++++++++++++
Sommer Browning is reading poems and presenting comix (I don't know what that means!) on Friday for the issue release of Drunken Boat 10 in a real live Chelsea Gallery!
with these amazing people: derek beaulieu, Rand Richards Cooper, Sharon Dolin, Ram Devineni, Elizabeth Kadetsky, Harriet Levin & Elisabeth Subrin!
July 10th, 6-8 pm
SoHo20 Gallery
511 West 25th St.
Suite 605
between 10th & 11th Avenues
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The new issue of Drunken Boat is here
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Hong-An Truong is doing this:
PECHA KUCHA FREESTYLE
curated by Anaïs Lellouche & Hajnalka Somogyi
ISCP is pleased to announce Picture Parlor IV: 'Pecha Kucha Freestyle' on July 10, 2009 8-10PM. The event will be held on and around the loading dock at ISCP and will bring together artists, architects and curators.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Olivier Babin (ISCP) | Rhys Coren (ISCP) | Koenraad Dedobbeleer (ISCP) Baris Gokturk | Adam Kleinman | Liz Magic Laser | Vaclav Magid (ISCP) John Menick | Bjargey Olafsdottir (ISCP) | Anna Ostoya | Jochen Plogsties & Ivy Haldeman (ISCP) | Alexandre Singh | Samu Szemerey | Hong-An Truong | Wendy Vogel
LIVE MUSIC BY:
MOTMOT (motmot.org)
One often-claimed asset of residency programs is that creative people working in close proximity might inspire one another. You put together twenty-something cultural producers from all over the world into a building (in a city where, so it seems, every fifth person works in the arts anyways), you let them stroll around town, meet their peers and other people and new ideas will spark, art will flourish. When curators visit the studios, what they first get is usually a standard presentation of the artist's work of the past few years; however, the “real” discussion begins when all the collateral stories, ideas and experiences are put onto the table. On a summer night event, shouldn't we skip the first part and see how “inspiration” works?
'Pecha Kucha' (chatter in Japanese), is an international social event initiated by architects who were tired of never-ending presentations by their verbose colleagues. It consists of a series of slide projections by the participants who also comment on the visuals. It has strict rules: one can present twenty slides for twenty seconds each, which allows everyone to speak and shine for no less and no more than 6 minutes and 40 seconds. So far, Pecha Kucha has been usually mistaken as a tool for presenting one's own projects “fast food style”; we suggest that it has an even greater potential in triggering a chat about anything but one's oeuvre.
On the occasion of Pecha Kucha Freestyle, participants – ISCP residents, and artists, curators and architects from NYC – were asked to present on anything that goes on in their minds; to share impulses, memories or obsessions that influence their work, to tell true stories, fiction, and lies, to impart theories and suspicions that inform their thinking process. You won't see their artworks, we don't even promise that you will get a thorough insight into how art works. However, this playful format will certainly allow for a jam of eclectic source materials, quickly alternating between slapstick and serious, performative and poetic, found, archived and invented; giving you long-awaited translations of eighties Russian punk-rock, Sempé comics on NYC, the secret systems of bank vestibules, and animal presenters, mustaches and mullets... You will want more.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
CSAing away a Wednesday
One of the nice things about belonging to a CSA is that you get exposed to produce you wouldn't necessarily buy. Case in point: Japanese Turnips. These are covered in olive oil, sea-salt, fresh ground pepper, and rosemary. Simply roast (bake) them in the oven (425) for a little over 10 minutes. The first time I made them Lila mixed with in with a beets, romaine lettuce, and blue cheese.
Today I'm going to make a bruschettas using the turnips, blue cheese, tomatoes, sauteed mushrooms, and carmelized onions.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Press Action
scantily clad update!
new titles:
Interests by Nada Gordon
The Empire by Mark Leidner
Last New Death by Rob MacDonald
The Sin Sonnets (A Redouble) by Amy Newman
All My Poems by Nate Pritts
The Execution of Little Maude by Jeffrey Skinner
Take 11 Wolf Teeth and Call Me in the Morning by Abraham Smith
A Series of Ad Hoc Permutations, or RUBY Love-Songs by Joshua Ware
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Dear Friends of Flying Guillotine,
artist of coathanger girls and mitten girls
girls of the month forked men snakemen
beginning to people beginning to color
--from The Saint's Notebook, a hand stitched book of poems, covered in burlap, and printed in an edition of 74. Every cover is unique, every poem is a bursting canyon.
Kate Schapira lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches writing to college and elementary school students and makes chapbooks. She's the author of several chapbooks, including The Love of Freak Millways and Tango Wax (Cy Gist Press), Case Fbdy. (Rope-A-Dope Press) and Heroes & Monsters (forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs).
Pick one up here
Good summer wishes!
Flying Guillotine Press
new titles:
Interests by Nada Gordon
The Empire by Mark Leidner
Last New Death by Rob MacDonald
The Sin Sonnets (A Redouble) by Amy Newman
All My Poems by Nate Pritts
The Execution of Little Maude by Jeffrey Skinner
Take 11 Wolf Teeth and Call Me in the Morning by Abraham Smith
A Series of Ad Hoc Permutations, or RUBY Love-Songs by Joshua Ware
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dear Friends of Flying Guillotine,
artist of coathanger girls and mitten girls
girls of the month forked men snakemen
beginning to people beginning to color
--from The Saint's Notebook, a hand stitched book of poems, covered in burlap, and printed in an edition of 74. Every cover is unique, every poem is a bursting canyon.
Kate Schapira lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches writing to college and elementary school students and makes chapbooks. She's the author of several chapbooks, including The Love of Freak Millways and Tango Wax (Cy Gist Press), Case Fbdy. (Rope-A-Dope Press) and Heroes & Monsters (forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs).
Pick one up here
Good summer wishes!
Flying Guillotine Press
Thursday, July 2, 2009
So Much Reading You'll Need A New Set Of Eyes
Besides there being new issues of Fence, LIT, & Effing Magazine (which I'll blog about once I read them- I'm still reading the latest Jubilat & Lungfull) here are some online journals to tempt your intellect:
The new issue of CUE is up (first on-line version), guest-edited by Mark Horosky with work from Julia Cohen & Mathias Svalina in it, alongside work by Elizabeth Willis, Richard Siken, Matt Hart, Sarah Manguso, Tony Mancus, Dorothea Lasky, Tim Peterson, Reb Livingston, Chaz McCallahan, and Jason Labbe.
The 11th issue of pax americana is up, with such shining stars as: Paige Taggart, Christie Ann Reynolds, Nicole Santalucia, Sarah Feeley, Lauren Hunter, Jean Hartig, Amy LAwless, Matthew Yeager, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Kiely Sweatt, Patricia Smith, Aria Boutet, Rachel-Herman Gross, Taryn Andrew, Joseph Millar, Dorianne Laux, Teege Braune.
Rabbit Light Movies Episode #9
suzanne buffam | Joshua Beckman | Dorothea Lasky | Srikanth Reddy | Magdalena Zurawski |
Lauren Levin | Graham Foust | CAConrad | Aaron Kunin | brandon shimoda | Catherine Theis
The new issue of CUE is up (first on-line version), guest-edited by Mark Horosky with work from Julia Cohen & Mathias Svalina in it, alongside work by Elizabeth Willis, Richard Siken, Matt Hart, Sarah Manguso, Tony Mancus, Dorothea Lasky, Tim Peterson, Reb Livingston, Chaz McCallahan, and Jason Labbe.
The 11th issue of pax americana is up, with such shining stars as: Paige Taggart, Christie Ann Reynolds, Nicole Santalucia, Sarah Feeley, Lauren Hunter, Jean Hartig, Amy LAwless, Matthew Yeager, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Kiely Sweatt, Patricia Smith, Aria Boutet, Rachel-Herman Gross, Taryn Andrew, Joseph Millar, Dorianne Laux, Teege Braune.
Rabbit Light Movies Episode #9
suzanne buffam | Joshua Beckman | Dorothea Lasky | Srikanth Reddy | Magdalena Zurawski |
Lauren Levin | Graham Foust | CAConrad | Aaron Kunin | brandon shimoda | Catherine Theis
If We Could Collect All The Missing Hours
The other night I went to the effing magazine reading.
I woke up early on Wednesday to help some friends load a moving truck.
One of the slogans on the truck said, "Dedication at every turn."
Okay.
Justin, Farrah, Jared, Jules, Mathias, & I sat on the steps eating Mexican food.
I felt bummed that Jules & Mathias are moving to Denver.
My friends, Joseph & Anna, are leaving Chicago & moving to Iowa.
I guess I'm going to Denver & Iowa this year.
I hope to catch a Nuggets game & maybe Ty Lawson will get some minutes.
Anyways after moving I taught a 3.5 hour Intro to Lit course.
I figured I would be mentally & physically exhausted.
I went to bed a little after 11.
Then it happened.
I spent from 11:30 to 1am trying to hunt & kill a mosquito.
Have I ever told you how much I hate mosquitoes?
Today I stepped outside.
Got rained on.
Picked up some dry-cleaning.
Paid some bills.
Ate yogurt & granola.
Now it is just you & me.
I woke up early on Wednesday to help some friends load a moving truck.
One of the slogans on the truck said, "Dedication at every turn."
Okay.
Justin, Farrah, Jared, Jules, Mathias, & I sat on the steps eating Mexican food.
I felt bummed that Jules & Mathias are moving to Denver.
My friends, Joseph & Anna, are leaving Chicago & moving to Iowa.
I guess I'm going to Denver & Iowa this year.
I hope to catch a Nuggets game & maybe Ty Lawson will get some minutes.
Anyways after moving I taught a 3.5 hour Intro to Lit course.
I figured I would be mentally & physically exhausted.
I went to bed a little after 11.
Then it happened.
I spent from 11:30 to 1am trying to hunt & kill a mosquito.
Have I ever told you how much I hate mosquitoes?
Today I stepped outside.
Got rained on.
Picked up some dry-cleaning.
Paid some bills.
Ate yogurt & granola.
Now it is just you & me.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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