Showing posts with label Andrew Zornoza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andrew Zornoza. Show all posts
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Thursday, July 15, 2010
215 TSKY INVADES YOUR 'HOOD
Saturday, July 17, 2010, 6pm - NPP Presents: A Celebration of Tarpaulin Sky Press!! Featuring Andrew Zornoza, Gordon Massman, Jake Levine, & Kim Gek Lin Short. Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Samson Street, Philadelphia.
This reading contains two of my favorite people/writers: Zornoza & Short. If you're in Philly this event is not to be missed. Funny thing is I ate at Fergie's last time I was in Philly- you get a serious order of fish & chips- just so you know.
This reading contains two of my favorite people/writers: Zornoza & Short. If you're in Philly this event is not to be missed. Funny thing is I ate at Fergie's last time I was in Philly- you get a serious order of fish & chips- just so you know.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Chapbooks & Readings & Journals
Thanks for all the inquiries regarding State(s) of Flux. As soon as the page/buy link is up I'll post it on my blog.
But for now, how about you read Brooklyn Copeland's new chapbook? It's really good! You can read it here.
Know what else you can read? The new ish of Fou.
How about some Friday reading?
Zornoza (whose book I reviewed a while back on this blog) and Nicolle Elizabeth. Oh yes.
Dear darlings,
The new season of EARSHOT is well underway and we've got another fantastic evening in store for you on Friday, September 25th at ROSE LIVE MUSIC at 7:30 PM!
This time around, our excellent featured readers are SARAH SARAI (author of the new collection The Future Is Happy) and ANDREW ZORNOZA (author of Where I Stay)! They'll be joined by three most astounding MFA readers: Paul Hlava (New York University), Nicolle Elizabeth (Sarah Lawrence College) and Justin Boening (Columbia University).
And, as always, the price is a paltry five dollars, which includes a free drink! Join us!
Your pal,
Nicole
EARSHOT!
Friday, September 25th @ 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg
$5 + one free drink
Featuring:
Sarah Sarai (The Future Is Happy)
Andrew Zornoza (Where I Stay)
Paul Hlava (New York University)
Nicolle Elizabeth (Sarah Lawrence College)
Justin Boening (Columbia University)
Rose Live Music is located at 345 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Havemeyer and Marcy. Visit their website for directions: http://roselivemusic.com.
This Friday, at the Mountain of Power, it's Battle Royale
Jennifer Karmin, Michael Leong & Estela Lamat
Jennifer Karmin's text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice will be published by
Flim Forum Press in 2009. She curates the Red Rover Series and is a
founding member of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her
multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals,
artist-run spaces, and on city streets across the U.S. and Japan. At
home in Chicago, she teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman
College and works as a Poet in Residence for the public schools.
Michael Leong’s poetry career began in the sixth grade when he won his
first and only poetry prize in Mr. Harrison’s class for a haiku about
a snake. Since then, he has published poems and translations in
journals such as Action Yes, Bird Dog, Double Room, jubilat,
Marginalia, Opium Magazine, Pindeldyboz, and Tin House. He is the
author of I, the Worst of All (blazeVOX [books], 2009), a translation
of the Chilean poet Estela Lamat, and e.s.p. (Silenced Press, 2009).
He currently lives in New York City.
Estela Lamat was born at the age of eight in the backyard of the
house. She has conducted meticulous nocturnal studies of
sleeplessness, of stellar chances and causalities. Tamer of cats,
enologist by nose, left-handed, and epileptic, she has never been in a
workshop; she has never entered any contests; nor has she won any
literary awards.
Only at Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(718) 302-3770
"L" to Lorimer, "G" to Metropolitan
FREE!
Visit http://www.multifariousarray.blogspot.com/ for links to their
work and email me for more information.
But for now, how about you read Brooklyn Copeland's new chapbook? It's really good! You can read it here.
Know what else you can read? The new ish of Fou.
How about some Friday reading?
Zornoza (whose book I reviewed a while back on this blog) and Nicolle Elizabeth. Oh yes.
Dear darlings,
The new season of EARSHOT is well underway and we've got another fantastic evening in store for you on Friday, September 25th at ROSE LIVE MUSIC at 7:30 PM!
This time around, our excellent featured readers are SARAH SARAI (author of the new collection The Future Is Happy) and ANDREW ZORNOZA (author of Where I Stay)! They'll be joined by three most astounding MFA readers: Paul Hlava (New York University), Nicolle Elizabeth (Sarah Lawrence College) and Justin Boening (Columbia University).
And, as always, the price is a paltry five dollars, which includes a free drink! Join us!
Your pal,
Nicole
EARSHOT!
Friday, September 25th @ 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg
$5 + one free drink
Featuring:
Sarah Sarai (The Future Is Happy)
Andrew Zornoza (Where I Stay)
Paul Hlava (New York University)
Nicolle Elizabeth (Sarah Lawrence College)
Justin Boening (Columbia University)
Rose Live Music is located at 345 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Havemeyer and Marcy. Visit their website for directions: http://roselivemusic.com.
This Friday, at the Mountain of Power, it's Battle Royale
Jennifer Karmin, Michael Leong & Estela Lamat
Jennifer Karmin's text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice will be published by
Flim Forum Press in 2009. She curates the Red Rover Series and is a
founding member of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her
multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals,
artist-run spaces, and on city streets across the U.S. and Japan. At
home in Chicago, she teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman
College and works as a Poet in Residence for the public schools.
Michael Leong’s poetry career began in the sixth grade when he won his
first and only poetry prize in Mr. Harrison’s class for a haiku about
a snake. Since then, he has published poems and translations in
journals such as Action Yes, Bird Dog, Double Room, jubilat,
Marginalia, Opium Magazine, Pindeldyboz, and Tin House. He is the
author of I, the Worst of All (blazeVOX [books], 2009), a translation
of the Chilean poet Estela Lamat, and e.s.p. (Silenced Press, 2009).
He currently lives in New York City.
Estela Lamat was born at the age of eight in the backyard of the
house. She has conducted meticulous nocturnal studies of
sleeplessness, of stellar chances and causalities. Tamer of cats,
enologist by nose, left-handed, and epileptic, she has never been in a
workshop; she has never entered any contests; nor has she won any
literary awards.
Only at Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(718) 302-3770
"L" to Lorimer, "G" to Metropolitan
FREE!
Visit http://www.multifariousarray.blogspot.com/ for links to their
work and email me for more information.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Big American Trip is Where I Stay
Where I Stay by Andrew Zornoza (tarpaulin sky press, 2009)
Big American Trip by Christian Peet (Shearsman Books, 2009)
Forget the Blueberries
A couple of years back, Blueberry Nights, a film by Wong Kar-wai was released and it sucked. Kar-wai is known for his dreamy, gauzy, sensual films, which obsess over love, lost, place, identity and time-- all delivered in fragmented narratives. Blueberry Nights was his first Hollywood film so what better to make than a “road movie?” The movie not only lacked vision and contained some awful acting, it really showcased how the obsession with the road has become another cliché of Americana. If I think of the road as a literary trope I think Steinbeck, Kerouac, and McCarthy. So my question was whether Zornoza and Peet’s books could make the road feel fresh again. These are two drastically different texts yet both are united in the necessity of search and that ability to be in a place, or of a place, to pass through a place, but not possess or change the place—i.e. the anti-capitalist imperative, that is if Huck Finn sets off down the river to find a freer and wilder America does it exist? According to Zornoza and Peet the answer is yes and no.
Where I Stay is a prose-photo book, which sets up a rhythm by wisely having photos on every right-hand side of the page. This strategy allows for Zornoza to have a nuanced and complicated reading of his book because although the photos relate (sometimes quite loosely) to the text the photos tell their own story. So you have the opportunity to get one story from the text, another from the photos, and a third reading by combining text and photos. This allows a certain emotional resonance and mood to permeate throughout the book while challenging your intellect and intuition. Where filmmaker Wong Kar-wai failed with Blueberry Nights, Zornoza succeeds. Part of the success of Zornoza’s book is that he allows it to roam—despite it’s title this is a restless book traveling the American West, Mid-west, and Mexico. The prose gives us just enough information to remain engaged in both character and place, but Zornoza doesn’t try to define, instead allowing the reader to make associative leaps from Sept. 17, Albuquerque, New Mexico which begins,
“My older son don’t write me, but he’s a good boy, she says. We park in a diner parking lot and tilt back the seats to sleep. When I wake in the morning,she’s sewing shut the end of a pillow. A pocket with a tooth embroidered on it has been stitched in one corner.”
The next page has a photo collage of a pillow, photos of people and a newspaper. Below the photo the caption reads, “I worked at a toy factory, I worked at a restaurant washing dishes. People gave me money. I was ashamed, but I took the money, I never did not take the money.” The page after this it’s Sept. 20, Boulder, Colorado and the narrative begins,
“A man on a motorcycle with a Yorkshire terrier in the sidecar, a woman in a Volvo, and finally a water fountain, shade, a field of green grass.”
One of the reasons why Where I Stay is so successful is because of Zornoza’s ability to navigate and weave together fully fleshed sentences along with airy lines of staccato. Zornoza’s prose has range, which is what makes this book at times so beautiful and at other times so devastating.
He hands me a burger wrapped in butcher paper. He hands me a road atlas, a disposable camera, a tube of pepper spray. He picks the atlas off my lap and leafs through it. Boy this no place to be anymore. I was out there, far gone, when I was your age, then met her. We ain’t going to last, but maybe we will. He puts the car in gear. He says, We both probably been thinking that so long that it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter? No.
This is from Oct 25, McCaren, Texas which is followed by a photo of a bridge, grass, shrubs, and a tree-line with this caption below it,
I faded, subsumed by broken pieces of Americans and places—people, places and feelings all stitched together, larger than themselves than me and you, all stretched around us, our life together, around the country.
This is how it began, in the middle. With no beginning. A bridge and a river.
“Broken pieces of Americans and places” is part of Peet’s agenda. The irony that his book is called, Big American Trip, and has a UK publisher as opposed to an American one is lost on no one. Next is the cover, three foregrounded Native-Americans holding rifles while behind them sprawls an American street with a factory and traffic lights, finally the entire cover is covered in tie-dye. The book contains poems in the form of post-card entries. This allows Peet the ability to roam while providing only snap-shots landscape and the people. Peet’s book is overtly political and at times exceptional for its black humor. For instance on the back of a postcard entitled, Superior, Montana he writes,
Superior is good name for town lake, but coffee
Here is only the brown water.
I am finding very difficult to maintain the 75 MPH.
& great terror is the use of the law:
An eager representative of the Cherokee Jeep
Patrolled my routine encampment. His duty
The hat and the nod-- and the raised eyebrow.
At first, it’s easy to be either thrown-off or seduced by Peet’s sense of syntax or the way the poem flits around from coffee to law, but a closer examination finds Peet slyly commenting or questioning the need to name a town “Superior,” especially a town that has difficulties producing a decent cup of coffee and then the law appears as a “great terror.” Notice now how Cherokee isn’t a Native American tribe but instead a vehicle used to patrol and maintain order. The subjugating the subject is both humorous and horrifying, which is Peet’s aim—to force the reader to re-examine names and how these names are co-opted and used as a means of power. The brilliance of Big American Trip is similar to Zornoza’s book, in that both allow for and meaningfully complicate the readings of experimental or fragmented text by subtle shifts of nuance. Here’s another poem, which is addressed to WABC Radio, 77 WABC, 2 Penn Plaza, NY, NY 10121,
Found roadside a white girl is Rasta. Her mantra:
“It’s all good.” She imparts a knowledge of the
foreigner to leave me a wonder of self-scrutiny.
HOT BLOODED
Well, I’m Hot Blooded
Check and See
I got a fever
Of 103
Come on, baby,
You can do more than
Dance.
I’m Hot-Blooded!
Hot Blooded!
More appropriates the desert. Even if dull words.
Is it “all good?” Peet, like Huck Finn, openly challenges authority and those that attempt to construct our world and thoughts for us. If America is a littered landscape of hyperbole, waste, and conformity, then the “wildness,” that feeling of “free-ness” seems to be gone, yet if we look at Peet’s poetry then we find through art and words there are still some of us who are wild and wide-mouth armed with pens and disapproval. Christian Peet ravages through the American landscape injecting poems with Americana, pranks, puns, and power. Both Peet and Zornoza’s books are examples of not submitting to a status quo in literature, instead they use the traits once synonymous with Wong Kar-wai: originality, vision, risks, and experimentation to give you back this country as it is: flawed, fractured, hypocritical, greedy, beautiful, breathtaking, mesmerizing, and the constant dialect of a lie and a truth.
* some formatting differs from that of the books.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Candy Stain Punks
Medical FACT!
The human body has over 452 organs!
Medical FACT!
The smallest bones in your body are located inside the biggest bones
in your body!
Medical FACT!
Your Blood is made up of 30% Red, 30% Dreams Involving Rodents and 40%
The Multifarious Array!
This Friday, May 29th, at 7pm
Dr. Stucky, Dr. Lasky and Dr. Taransky
Dissect You Like You've Never Been Dissected!
(Have You Seen Hellraiser?)
Janaka Stucky is the founder and managing editor of Black Ocean, and
publishes the magazine Handsome. He likes his whiskey neat and his
music dirty. Since receiving his BFA from Emerson and an MFA in Poetry
from Vermont College in 2003, he remains rooted in Boston--spending
his life traveling, writing, and caring for the dead. Some of his
poems appear or are forthcoming in: Cannibal, Denver Quarterly, North
American Review, Redivider, and VOLT.
Dorothea Lasky is the author of AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and Black Life
(Wave Books, 2010). Her chapbooks include Tourmaline (Transmission
Press, 2008), The Hatmaker's Wife (Braincase Press, 2006), Art
(H_NGM_N Press, 2006), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press,
2005). She has been educated at Washington University, University of
Massachusetts-Amherst, and Harvard University. Currently, she studies
creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania.
Michelle Taransky was born in Camden, NJ. Her first book, "Barn
Burned, Then" was selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn
Poetry Prize and will be published during September 2009. With her
father, architect Richard Taransky, she is the author of The Plans
Caution (QUEUE 2007). She lives in Philadelphia and works at Kelly
Writers House. Poems appear, or are forthcoming in VOLT, New American
Writing, HOW2 and Denver Quarterly.
Only at Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(718) 302-3770
"L" to Lorimer, "G" to Metropolitan
FREE!
Visit http://www.multifariousarray.blogspot.com/ for links to
their work and email me for more information.
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Ana Božičević sent a message to the members of Carrier, Firestone, Kaufman, Klane, Pindyck & Sims!
Subject: Stain Bar is closing -- join us for the sendoff!
Dear friends of Stain,
We write to share some sad news from the proprietors of Stain Bar: due to disputes with the landlord (read: astronomic rent raise), the bar is closing at the end of this month, in just a few days. Join us this Friday to send off our beloved (soon to be old) venue with a stellar lineup! Great poetry, drinks & a few tears guaranteed. & stay tuned for Stain of Poetry news as we head for a new home. If you're a fan of a bar, performance space or other venue that you think would be perfect for us, write to us at amyhappens@gmail.com and anabobo@gmail.com.
Smallest violins,
Amy & Ana
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Buy the album!
THE ENCLAVE XXII: THE FESTIVAL OF CRACKED CODES (a Punk Lit Reading)
FEATURING: MICHAEL MUHAMMAD KNIGHT, CRISTY C. ROAD & ANDREW ZORNOZA
Saturday, May 30th @ 3 PM
Cake Shop
152 Ludlow Street
New York City
Free
MICHAEL MUHAMMAD KNIGHT’s work has been censored, boycotted,
confiscated, and threatened with legal action. He is the author of The
Taqwacores, Blue-Eyed Devil, The Five Percenters, and Impossible Man,
and his novel Osama Van Halen is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press
this spring. He is a frequent speaker at colleges and academic
conferences. The feature film adaptation of The Taqwacores is
currently in post-production, and a documentary about the taqwacore
movement his novel created is also nearing completion. His travelogue
Journey to the End of Islam is forthcoming from Soft Skull in December
2009. He lives in New York state.
CRISTY C. ROAD is a writer and illustrator who’s obsessed with human
imperfection and deconstructing the norms which have sheltered her
world. Aside from illustrating for countless record covers, book
covers, radical organizations, and magazine articles; Road published
an independent zine, Greenzine for ten years, and has released three
books - “Indestructible”, a graphic memoir about being a teenage
Latina, queer punk in High School; and Distance Makes the Heart Grow
Sick”, a postcard collection. She recently released “BAD HABITS”, an
Illustrated love story about a faltering human heart's telepathic
connections to the destruction of New York City. She currently
hibernates in Brooklyn, NY.
ANDREW ZORNOZA is a writer and visual artist born in Houston, Texas.
He is the author of the photo-prose novel, "Where I Stay," (Tarpaulin
Sky Press, 2009). His fiction and essays have appeared in magazines
such as, Sleepingfish, Confrontation, Porcupine Literary Arts, CapGun,
H.O.W and Matter Magazine, among others. He can be found teaching
writing at The New School University and fiction at Gotham Writer's
Workshop.
"Language constitutes a set of codes and social agreements. Speaking
nonsense does not per se break down the codes; speaking precisely that
which the code forbids breaks the code." - ????
Know where this quote comes from? Stop by Cake Shop on the 30th and
find out. You're invited in.
The Enclave is a writers’ collective based out of New York City that
aims to present innovative writing to the public. We host monthly
readings at Cake Shop in the Lower East Side. Our next reading will be
held Saturday June 27th @ 4pm and will feature Paul Ford, Doree
Shafrir and Marty Beckerman. For more information on this reading and
other upcoming Enclave events go to: myspace.com/enclavianmatter.
The human body has over 452 organs!
Medical FACT!
The smallest bones in your body are located inside the biggest bones
in your body!
Medical FACT!
Your Blood is made up of 30% Red, 30% Dreams Involving Rodents and 40%
The Multifarious Array!
This Friday, May 29th, at 7pm
Dr. Stucky, Dr. Lasky and Dr. Taransky
Dissect You Like You've Never Been Dissected!
(Have You Seen Hellraiser?)
Janaka Stucky is the founder and managing editor of Black Ocean, and
publishes the magazine Handsome. He likes his whiskey neat and his
music dirty. Since receiving his BFA from Emerson and an MFA in Poetry
from Vermont College in 2003, he remains rooted in Boston--spending
his life traveling, writing, and caring for the dead. Some of his
poems appear or are forthcoming in: Cannibal, Denver Quarterly, North
American Review, Redivider, and VOLT.
Dorothea Lasky is the author of AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and Black Life
(Wave Books, 2010). Her chapbooks include Tourmaline (Transmission
Press, 2008), The Hatmaker's Wife (Braincase Press, 2006), Art
(H_NGM_N Press, 2006), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press,
2005). She has been educated at Washington University, University of
Massachusetts-Amherst, and Harvard University. Currently, she studies
creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania.
Michelle Taransky was born in Camden, NJ. Her first book, "Barn
Burned, Then" was selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn
Poetry Prize and will be published during September 2009. With her
father, architect Richard Taransky, she is the author of The Plans
Caution (QUEUE 2007). She lives in Philadelphia and works at Kelly
Writers House. Poems appear, or are forthcoming in VOLT, New American
Writing, HOW2 and Denver Quarterly.
Only at Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(718) 302-3770
"L" to Lorimer, "G" to Metropolitan
FREE!
Visit http://www.multifariousarray.blogspot.com/ for links to
their work and email me for more information.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ana Božičević sent a message to the members of Carrier, Firestone, Kaufman, Klane, Pindyck & Sims!
Subject: Stain Bar is closing -- join us for the sendoff!
Dear friends of Stain,
We write to share some sad news from the proprietors of Stain Bar: due to disputes with the landlord (read: astronomic rent raise), the bar is closing at the end of this month, in just a few days. Join us this Friday to send off our beloved (soon to be old) venue with a stellar lineup! Great poetry, drinks & a few tears guaranteed. & stay tuned for Stain of Poetry news as we head for a new home. If you're a fan of a bar, performance space or other venue that you think would be perfect for us, write to us at amyhappens@gmail.com and anabobo@gmail.com.
Smallest violins,
Amy & Ana
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Buy the album!
THE ENCLAVE XXII: THE FESTIVAL OF CRACKED CODES (a Punk Lit Reading)
FEATURING: MICHAEL MUHAMMAD KNIGHT, CRISTY C. ROAD & ANDREW ZORNOZA
Saturday, May 30th @ 3 PM
Cake Shop
152 Ludlow Street
New York City
Free
MICHAEL MUHAMMAD KNIGHT’s work has been censored, boycotted,
confiscated, and threatened with legal action. He is the author of The
Taqwacores, Blue-Eyed Devil, The Five Percenters, and Impossible Man,
and his novel Osama Van Halen is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press
this spring. He is a frequent speaker at colleges and academic
conferences. The feature film adaptation of The Taqwacores is
currently in post-production, and a documentary about the taqwacore
movement his novel created is also nearing completion. His travelogue
Journey to the End of Islam is forthcoming from Soft Skull in December
2009. He lives in New York state.
CRISTY C. ROAD is a writer and illustrator who’s obsessed with human
imperfection and deconstructing the norms which have sheltered her
world. Aside from illustrating for countless record covers, book
covers, radical organizations, and magazine articles; Road published
an independent zine, Greenzine for ten years, and has released three
books - “Indestructible”, a graphic memoir about being a teenage
Latina, queer punk in High School; and Distance Makes the Heart Grow
Sick”, a postcard collection. She recently released “BAD HABITS”, an
Illustrated love story about a faltering human heart's telepathic
connections to the destruction of New York City. She currently
hibernates in Brooklyn, NY.
ANDREW ZORNOZA is a writer and visual artist born in Houston, Texas.
He is the author of the photo-prose novel, "Where I Stay," (Tarpaulin
Sky Press, 2009). His fiction and essays have appeared in magazines
such as, Sleepingfish, Confrontation, Porcupine Literary Arts, CapGun,
H.O.W and Matter Magazine, among others. He can be found teaching
writing at The New School University and fiction at Gotham Writer's
Workshop.
"Language constitutes a set of codes and social agreements. Speaking
nonsense does not per se break down the codes; speaking precisely that
which the code forbids breaks the code." - ????
Know where this quote comes from? Stop by Cake Shop on the 30th and
find out. You're invited in.
The Enclave is a writers’ collective based out of New York City that
aims to present innovative writing to the public. We host monthly
readings at Cake Shop in the Lower East Side. Our next reading will be
held Saturday June 27th @ 4pm and will feature Paul Ford, Doree
Shafrir and Marty Beckerman. For more information on this reading and
other upcoming Enclave events go to: myspace.com/enclavianmatter.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Home Review Segues Into Where I Stay Fou You
Now Online: The Home Video Review of Books, Vol 2, Issue 3: April/May 2009
www.thehomevideoreviewofbooks.blogspot.com
The Home Video Review of Books is a (mostly) monthly online review
journal of poetry & lyric prose.
Reviews of
Notes on Conceptualisms, by Vanessa Place & Robert Fitterman
To Hell With Sleep by Anselm Berrigan
UNION!, by Ish Klein
Lullaby: Speculations on the first active sense, by Christine Hume &
music by James Marks
Full Catastrophe Living, by Zach Savich
Survey Says!, by Nathan Austin
Bob, or Man on Boat, by Peter Markus
The Belladonna Elders Series #3, by Chris Kraus & Tisa Bryant
Night-Sea, by Rachel Moritz
from Disclosure, by Dana Teen Lomax
Quarry, by Carolyn Guinzio
Prairie Style, by C. S. Giscombe
Areas of Fog, by Joseph Massey
More Perfect Depictions of Noise, by Justin Taylor
12 X 12: Conversations in 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics, ed. by
Christina Mengert & Joshua Marie Wilkinson
speaking off centre, by James Cummins
Tree of No, by Sandy Florian
The Tangled Line, by Tod Marshall
Editors:
Julia Cohen & Mathias Svalina
Staff Reviewers:
Zachary Schomburg, Daniela Gesundheit, Dan Goldman, Stephanie Sherman,
Jeff Downey, Ken Rumble, Jon Pack, Jayna Maleri, Mary Turnipseed, Elisabeth
Reinkordt, Alex Goldberg, Ben Schechter, Hungry Wilcox & Nathan Young
To submit a book for review send review copies to:
HVRB
c/o Julia Cohen & Mathias Svalina
505 62nd St, #C2
Brooklyn, NY 11220
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The Seque Series
Featuring: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge & Jonathan Skinner
Saturday, May 23, 2009 ** 4PM SHARP**
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, $6 admission
hosted by Kristen Gallagher & Tim Peterson
Mei-mei Berssenbruggewas born in Beijing and grew up in Massachusetts. She is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, most recently I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems (University of California Press, 2006) and Concordance(Kelsey St. Press, 2006), a collaboration with Kiki Smith.
Jonathan Skinneris a poet, translator and critic, as well as editor of the journal ecopoetics. Skinner completed his Ph.D. in
English at SUNY Buffalo. In 2005, he published his first full-length poetry collection, Political Cactus Poems (Palm Press).
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440 Gallery Reading
Featuring: New School Instructor and Alumnus Andrew Zornoza, New School Alumnus Cate Peebles, and Elizabeth Isadora Gold
Sunday, May 24th from 4:40 to 6 pm
@440 Gallery, 440 6th Ave. at 9th St., F to 7th Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn
Andrew Zornoza is the author of the photo-prose novel Where I Stay. Born in Houston, Texas and now residing in Brooklyn, his fiction and essays have appeared in magazines such as Gastronomica, Sleepingfish, H.O.W Journal, Confrontation, Porcupine Literary Arts, CapGun, and Matter Magazine, among others. He teaches writing at The New School University and fiction at Gotham Writer's Workshop. For more, see www.andrewzornoza.com
Elizabeth Isadora Gold’s work has appeared in publications including The Believer, Tin House, Time Out New York, Philadelphia Magazine, Philadelphia City Paper, The Forward, and Bust. In 2006, her Philadelphia piece about soul music impresario Kenny Gamble was selected for The Philadelphia Reader (Temple University Press), a collection of the magazine’s best profiles. Her memoir, Philly Soul, is about Rhythm & Blues, and growing up bohemian. She’s currently working on DON'T TOUCH ME!, a surreal novel about a born-again Christian teen-pop singing reality-TV star.
Cate Peebles lives in Brooklyn and is an assistant at the literary agency Sobel Weber Associates. She has previously worked as the Assistant to the Editor of George, Being George (Random House, 2009), an oral biography of George Plimpton, an intern at the CLMP, a waitress, and a barista. She received her BA from Reed College in 2002, and an MFA from The New School in 2007. Her poetry has appeared online and in print in such journals as: Tin House, Octopus, La Petite Zine, MiPoesias, CutBank, Cannibal, Forklift, Ohio, and Tight. Poems have been anthologized in Boog City Reader: An Antholgy of New York City Poets and Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House. She co-edits the online poetry magazine, Fou (www.foumagazine.net).
www.thehomevideoreviewofbooks.blogspot.com
The Home Video Review of Books is a (mostly) monthly online review
journal of poetry & lyric prose.
Reviews of
Notes on Conceptualisms, by Vanessa Place & Robert Fitterman
To Hell With Sleep by Anselm Berrigan
UNION!, by Ish Klein
Lullaby: Speculations on the first active sense, by Christine Hume &
music by James Marks
Full Catastrophe Living, by Zach Savich
Survey Says!, by Nathan Austin
Bob, or Man on Boat, by Peter Markus
The Belladonna Elders Series #3, by Chris Kraus & Tisa Bryant
Night-Sea, by Rachel Moritz
from Disclosure, by Dana Teen Lomax
Quarry, by Carolyn Guinzio
Prairie Style, by C. S. Giscombe
Areas of Fog, by Joseph Massey
More Perfect Depictions of Noise, by Justin Taylor
12 X 12: Conversations in 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics, ed. by
Christina Mengert & Joshua Marie Wilkinson
speaking off centre, by James Cummins
Tree of No, by Sandy Florian
The Tangled Line, by Tod Marshall
Editors:
Julia Cohen & Mathias Svalina
Staff Reviewers:
Zachary Schomburg, Daniela Gesundheit, Dan Goldman, Stephanie Sherman,
Jeff Downey, Ken Rumble, Jon Pack, Jayna Maleri, Mary Turnipseed, Elisabeth
Reinkordt, Alex Goldberg, Ben Schechter, Hungry Wilcox & Nathan Young
To submit a book for review send review copies to:
HVRB
c/o Julia Cohen & Mathias Svalina
505 62nd St, #C2
Brooklyn, NY 11220
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The Seque Series
Featuring: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge & Jonathan Skinner
Saturday, May 23, 2009 ** 4PM SHARP**
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, $6 admission
hosted by Kristen Gallagher & Tim Peterson
Mei-mei Berssenbruggewas born in Beijing and grew up in Massachusetts. She is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, most recently I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems (University of California Press, 2006) and Concordance(Kelsey St. Press, 2006), a collaboration with Kiki Smith.
Jonathan Skinneris a poet, translator and critic, as well as editor of the journal ecopoetics. Skinner completed his Ph.D. in
English at SUNY Buffalo. In 2005, he published his first full-length poetry collection, Political Cactus Poems (Palm Press).
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440 Gallery Reading
Featuring: New School Instructor and Alumnus Andrew Zornoza, New School Alumnus Cate Peebles, and Elizabeth Isadora Gold
Sunday, May 24th from 4:40 to 6 pm
@440 Gallery, 440 6th Ave. at 9th St., F to 7th Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn
Andrew Zornoza is the author of the photo-prose novel Where I Stay. Born in Houston, Texas and now residing in Brooklyn, his fiction and essays have appeared in magazines such as Gastronomica, Sleepingfish, H.O.W Journal, Confrontation, Porcupine Literary Arts, CapGun, and Matter Magazine, among others. He teaches writing at The New School University and fiction at Gotham Writer's Workshop. For more, see www.andrewzornoza.com
Elizabeth Isadora Gold’s work has appeared in publications including The Believer, Tin House, Time Out New York, Philadelphia Magazine, Philadelphia City Paper, The Forward, and Bust. In 2006, her Philadelphia piece about soul music impresario Kenny Gamble was selected for The Philadelphia Reader (Temple University Press), a collection of the magazine’s best profiles. Her memoir, Philly Soul, is about Rhythm & Blues, and growing up bohemian. She’s currently working on DON'T TOUCH ME!, a surreal novel about a born-again Christian teen-pop singing reality-TV star.
Cate Peebles lives in Brooklyn and is an assistant at the literary agency Sobel Weber Associates. She has previously worked as the Assistant to the Editor of George, Being George (Random House, 2009), an oral biography of George Plimpton, an intern at the CLMP, a waitress, and a barista. She received her BA from Reed College in 2002, and an MFA from The New School in 2007. Her poetry has appeared online and in print in such journals as: Tin House, Octopus, La Petite Zine, MiPoesias, CutBank, Cannibal, Forklift, Ohio, and Tight. Poems have been anthologized in Boog City Reader: An Antholgy of New York City Poets and Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House. She co-edits the online poetry magazine, Fou (www.foumagazine.net).
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