The Beat Goes On

Mixer Reading and Music Series
Wednesday, October 14, 7:00 p.m. FREE
with readings by Darin Strauss, Farrah Field, and Maya Pindyck
and musical guest, Uninhabitable Mansions
with your hosts, Melissa Febos and Rebecca Keith
at Cakeshop
152 Ludlow St., bet. Stanton and Rivington
F, V to 2nd Ave., F, J, M to Delancey/Essex
http://www.myspace.com/mixernyc


Danit Brown is the author of Ask for a Convertible (Anchor), which received an American Book Award and was named a Best Book of 2008 by the Washington Post. Her fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including Story, Glimmer Train, StoryQuarterly, andOne Story.


Farrah Field's first book of poems, Rising, won Four Way Books’ 2007 Levis Prize. Her poems have appeared in many publications including the Mississippi Review, Typo, Harp & Altar, La Petite Zine, Eklesographia, Effing Magazine, and are forthcoming in Ploughshares. She lives in Brooklyn and blogs at adultish.blogspot.com.

Maya Pindyck grew up in Newton, Massachusetts and Tel Aviv, Israel. Her first collection of poems, Friend Among Stones, won the Many Voices Project Award from New Rivers Press. Her chapbook, Locket, Master, received a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. She is also a visual artist and co-founder of Project Voice (www.theabortionproject.org), a growing compilation of personal stories that aims to deflate the abortion stigma. Maya earned her M.F.A. in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.A. in education from Brooklyn College through the New York City Teaching Fellows Program. She currently teaches 10th grade English in Brownsville.


Darin Strauss is the international bestselling author of the New York Times Notable books Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy, and the national bestseller More Than It Hurts You, out in paperback June 30, 2009. Also a screenwriter, he is adapting Chang and Eng with Gary Oldman, for Disney. The recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing, he is a Clinical Associate Professor at NYU's creative writing program.


Uninhabitable Mansions is the musical division of a Brooklyn-based art collective that isalso called Uninhabitable Mansions. Robbie Guertin (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) sings and plays guitar. Annie Hart(Au Revoir Simone) sings and plays keyboards. Tyler Sargent (CYHSY) sings and plays bass. Chris Diken plays guitar. Doug Marvin (Dirty On Purpose) plays drums. The band’s releases include the 7-inch record We Misplaced a Cobra in theUninhabitable Mansion and the full-length album Nature Is a Taker.
Uninhabitable Mansions also has published books and rulers, scored a dance piece,
released a limited-edition print, participated in an art fair, drawn comics about
sandwiches, and installed more than 50 fish in a storefront window.
Learn more at uninhabitablemansions.com.

A Little of This/ A Little of That

Lila & I went to see Asobi Seksu last Wednesday. I have a review and more pics over on GSL.
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Thanks to everyone who came out to the Cakeshop on Saturday for my reading/release party. I have photos here
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Have you read the interview with Claudia Rankine? It's here. How about this one?

& you know about her "play" which takes place on a bus tour of the South Bronx?
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Catherine Meng has poems up at Real Poetik

State(s) of Flux

I'm thrilled to say my chapbook has arrived. You can purchase it from Peptic Robot Press for $15.00. The book doesn't have its own page yet but you can send them an email here for the deets.

I'll be reading from it tomorrow at Cakeshop so come on out and say hi.

Friady With Rain

I think my sister & niece are coming up today. It's raining which makes Central Park less attractive unless we buy ponchos. I don't see ponchos in my immediate future.

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There's a new ish of Diode ready for consumption.

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There's a new ish of Keyhole Magazine waiting to be ordered.

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I have a review of Yo La Tengo's forthcoming album, Popular Songs, here

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I will be reading at the Cakeshop on September 19th. When I know the other readers I'll post it in the "reading section." I will also be reading at Home Sweet Home on Sept. 30th as a part of their 1yr. anniversary. A lot of peeps will be reading at this so each person will prolly read for 3 minutes. I'll prolly read for under 3 minutes.

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I'm all out of news.

What's Good

Host:	The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series
Type:	Music/Arts - Listening Party
Network:	Global

Date:	Friday, February 27, 2009
Time:	7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:	stain bar
Street:	766 grand street
City/Town:	Brooklyn, NY

Jason Gray is the author of Photographing Eden (Ohio Univ. Press, 2008), winner of the Hollis Summers Prize, and two chapbooks, How to Paint the Savior Dead (Kent State Univ. Press, 2007) and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo (Dream Horse, 2003). His poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. He coedits the online magazine, Unsplendid (www.unsplendid.com). Web site: jason-gray.net.

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Tony Mancus’ poems have appeared or will be appearing in cream city review, Handsome, Forklift, Ohio, Memorious and elsewhere. He teaches writing at Montclair State University and Hunter College. He co-founded Flying Guillotine Press (flyingguillotinepress.blogspot.com) and makes books in Brooklyn and Queens.
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Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collection Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008) as well as chapbooks from Furniture_Press and Stockport Flats Press. Poe has received several literary awards including the Thayer Fellowship of the Arts (2008) and three Pushcart Prize nominations. Her writing is forthcoming or has appeared in journals such as Coconut, Diode, Ploughshares, Filter Literary Magazine, Denver Quarterly, Copper Nickel, and FOURSQUARE Editions as well as in the anthologies In Our Own Words (MW Enterprises 2009), Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Diaspora (Third World Press 2007) and A Sing Economy (Flim Forum 2008). Her current projects include “Elements” (her poetry collection based on the periodic table), a short fiction collection entitled “Event Landmarks,” and an anthology of short fiction. Assistant Professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, Poe teaches creative writing, contemporary fiction and theory. Visit her Web site, www.deborahpoe.com, for more.
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Ric Royer is a writer, performer, writer of performances and performer of writings. Other works of literature include Hystery of Heat (Publishing Genius), There Were One and It Was Two (Narrow House Records), and Anthesteria (Bark Art Press). The Weather Not The Weather is forthcoming from Outside Voices Press. He is also a founding editor of Ferrum Wheel.

An imprint of Bootstrap Productions (Cambridge, Mass.), Buffalo N.Y.-based Outside Voices publishes poetry & experimental text-based art.

http://www.ricroyer.com
http://www.looktouch.com/press
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A witness and survivor of the war in Bosnia, Mario Susko moved to the US in 1993 where he lived in the 70s and got his M.A. and Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook. He has published 77 books, 28 of which are his poetry collections. His most recent work includes an integral edition/translation of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, as well as an anthology of modern Jewish-American short stories A Declaration of Being which he co-edited with M. Schwartzman and translated into Croatian. His 6th poetry collection in English, Closing Time, was released in 2008 by Harbor Mountain Press. This January his Croatian publisher Meandarmedia put out a Croatian edition of Closing Time and the erbacce-press from Liverpool, UK, released his chapbook Rules of Engagement.
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Jessica Reed’s poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, LIT, The Huffington Post, Zeek: A Journal of Jewish Thought and Culture, as well as various online journals, and has been anthologized in Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House. She is the 2007 recipient of the Marie Ponsot Poetry Prize and the Jerome Lowell Dejur Award. Originally from Asheville, North Carolina, she lives in New York City, where she works as a technical editor and where she received her MFA from the the City College of the City University of New York.
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Hosted by Amy King and Ana Božičević
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Saturday night, February 28th, @ Unnameable Books, Flim Forum Press presents, in coordination w/ Peace Events, a multivocal performance of Jennifer Karmin's aaaaaaaaaaalice. w/ Tisa Bryant, Jennifer Firestone, and a few surprise guests.

There will also be readings by Flim Forum Press editors Matthew Klane and Adam Golaski.

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Jennifer Karmin curates the Red Rover Series and is a founding member of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented nationally at festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, and on city streets. She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools. Recent poems are published in Cannot Exist, MoonLit, Otoliths, and the anthologies Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press), Not A Muse (Haven Books), and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books).

Adam Golaski has some new work in Little Red Leaves, Torpedo, The Lifted Brow, and an anthology of horror stories called Exotic Gothic II. His story "They Look Like Little Girls" won the Supernatural Tales readers' poll--$35! Some of his translation of Sir Gawain & the Green Knight--called "Green"--will be reprinted in the next Drunken Boat "Mistranslation" feature. He edits Flim Forum Press books with Matthew Klane. Adam's review of There Are Birds, by John Taggart, appeared in the January issue of Open Letters Monthly, and has been receiving some very nice attention. His daughter Elizabeth can recite most of the alphabet, loves the letter "W," and is learning how to jump.

Matthew Klane is co-editor/founder of Flim Forum Press, publisher of the anthologies Oh One Arrow (2007) and A Sing Economy (2008). His book is B_____ Meditations from Stockport Flats Press (2008). His latest chapbooks include Friend Delighting the Eloquent, Sorrow Songs, and The- Associated Press. Also see: The Meister-Reich Experiments, a sprawling hypertext, online at www.housepress.org. He currently lives and writes in Albany, NY.

Date:	Saturday, February 28, 2009
Time:	8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:	Unnameable Books
Street:	456 Bergen Street
City/Town:	Brooklyn, NY

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Hi friends,

You've probably already received an email blast fro the Enclave Reading Series that I curate, but I wanted to give some of you a more personal invitation to this Saturday's Enclave reading with Wayne Koestenbaum, Christopher Stackhouse, and the incomparable Eileen Myles.

I couldn't be happier with this eclectic powerhouse line-up. So if you're free late Saturday afternoon, come by our wonderful new venue at the Cake Shop, have a drink (or several) and hear readings from three of my favorite poets and authors living in NY.

Here are the details...hope you can drop by!

The Enclave Reading Series
Saturday
Feb. 28
4 - 6pm
Cake Shop
152 Lulow St.
Lower East Side
www.myspace.com/enclavianmatter
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Just a reminder to come out for some Japanesey-Jazz this Saturday!
There is also a Brazilian party after us in the same venue if anyone
is interested!

Thanks! Nobuko

Diaspora Crossings presents:
THE TOKYO ZAGAN QUINTET
Saturday Feb. 28, 2009, 7.30pm (doors open 7pm)
at DROM
85 Avenue A, between 5th & 6th Streets
$10 general admission www.dromnyc.com / 212-777-1157

Nobuko Miyazaki - flute & shinobue
Bartosz Smoragiewicz - sax & clarinet
Izabela Buchowska - cello
Emi Inaba - piano
Laiyo Nakahashi - taiko & drums
With special guest Kaoru Watanabe (formerly of KODO)

www.nobuflute.com(click on "Projects"),www.myspace.com/
diasporacrossings
for more info contact me: nobuflute@gmail.com / 917-318-6915

You can get tickets online:http://dromnyc.com/home/index.php?
option=com_gigcal&task=details&gigc...

Map:http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=85+Avenue+A,+New
+yor...

Thanks for your support!
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Baus in the house

Eric Baus is the author of The To Sound (Wave Books) and Tuned Droves (Octopus Books). He edits Minus House chapbooks and writes about poetry audio recordings on the site To The Sound. He lives in Denver.

Adam Chiles' first book Evening Land was published this year by Cinnamon Press in the UK. His work has appeared in Best New Poets 2006, Indiana Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Free Verse and others. He currently teaches English and Creative Writing at Northern Virginia Community College.

Mark Horosky was born in the 1970's and raised in New Haven, CT. He was educated at Southern CT State University (BA), University of Arizona (MFA), and Pace University (Masters of Science in Teaching). He is a Special Education Instructor in Brooklyn. His writing has appeared recently in Cue and Tight magazines. His new chapbook is out: Let It Be Nearby (with artwork by Amie Robinson; Cue Editions). He lives in Brooklyn with Miriam and Lucas.
Miriam Benatti lives and works as a licensed massage therapist in New York City. In between changing diapers, rubbing bodies, and cooking cutlets, she's currently working on a chapbook of poems called Open Your Mouth.

Only at Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(718) 302-3770

"L" to Lorimer, "G" to Metropolitan.

FREE!
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21st annual indie/small press book fair featuring Marsh Hawk Press, Black Ocean, and Ugly Duckling:

SATURDAY, December 6, 2008 10 am to 6 pm
SUNDAY, December 7, 2008 11 am to 5 pm Free Admission

The New York Center for Independent Publishing
20 West 44th Street (5/6) New York City
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Polestar Numero Cinco

Sunday, December 7, 2008
5 pm

Eve Grubin.
Cate Marvin.
Kathleen Ossip.

Downstairs at CAKESHOP
152 Ludlow (between Stanton & Rivington)

Trains to:
Delancey-Essex Sts (F, J, M, Z)
2nd Ave-Houston St (F, V)
Grand St (B, D)

About the Poets!

Eve Grubin's book of poems, Morning Prayer, was published by the Sheep Meadow Press. Her essay "After Eden: The Veil as a Conduit to the Internal" appeared in The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics (U of CA Press, 2008). Her poems have been published in the American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The New York Sun, Barrow Street, and many other journals and magazines. A chapbook size group of poems appeared in Conjunctions with an introduction to her work by Fanny Howe. She teaches at The New School and the City College of New York, and she runs the Arts Fellowships Program at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. She is a doctoral candiate in English Literature at CUNY, a senior editor at Lyric Poetry Review, and she publishes her essays in The Forward, nextbook.org, modestlyyours.net, and elsewhere.

Cate Marvin's first book, World's Tallest Disaster, was chosen by Robert Pinksy for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2002, she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. Her poems have appeared in The New England Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Fence, The Paris Review, The Cincinnati Review, Slate, Verse, Boston Review, and Ninth Letter. She is co-editor with poet Michael Dumanis of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006). Her second book of poems, Fragment of the Head of a Queen was published by Sarabande in August 2007. A recent Whiting Award recipient and 2007 NYFA Gregory Millard Fellow, she teaches poetry writing in Lesley University's Low-Residency MFA Program and is an associate professor in creative writing at the College of Staten Island.

Kathleen Ossip is the author of The Search Engine and of Cinephrastics, a chapbook of movie poems. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, the Washington Post, Fence, and Poetry Review (London). She teaches at The New School, where she serves as an Editor at Large for LIT, and she is the Poetry Editor of Women's Studies Quarterly. She has received = a fellowship in poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Reading Radar

The NYU Creative Writing Program and Wave Books present

State of the Union: a Poetry Reading with Voter Registration

Thursday, September 4th, 7 p.m.

Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues), New York, New York

with readings from State of the Union: 50 Political Poems, an anthology edited by Joshua Beckman and Matthew Zapruder --- featuring readings by Matthea Harvey, Noelle Kocot, Katy Lederer, Tao Lin, Eileen Myles, Matthew Rohrer, Tracy K. Smith, Edwin Torres, Rebecca Wolff and Rachel Zucker, with an introduction by Joshua Beckman.

The reading is free. By subway: Take the F, V, B, D, A, C, E to West 4th Street / Washington Square; Take the Q, R, W to 8th Street / NYU. For more information call 212-998-8816, or visit http://cwp.fas.nyu.edu

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NYU Creative Writing Program: http://cwp.fas.nyu.edu

Wave Books: www.wavepoetry.com

State of the Union: 50 Political Poems: http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/66

Visit the Wave Books Calendar for regularly updated readings and events, including forthcoming State of the Union readings in Berkeley, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.: www.wavepoetry.com/calendar
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Poetry Reading/ Book Release/ Leukemia Fundraiser

September 5th

7pm at KGB Bar (85 E. 4th St., New York, NY 10003)

Readers will be:

David Lehman

Meghan Punschke

Amy King

Ana Božičević

With Raffles for Baskets of Books/ Goodies, Book Sales, Special gifts for $20+ Donors, and a GRAND PRIZE WINNER!!!

Free to get in - $5 Raffle tix - Drinks at the bar

This Book Release Party for Meghan Punschke's new collection of poetry, Stratification, will double as a fundraising event for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). Other readers that night will include, David Lehman, Amy King, and Ana Božičević.There will be a raffle for prizes, which will include poetry books, anthologies and other poetry related items from several small presses including BlazeVOX Books, No Tell Books, Coconut Books, Goss 183, Ahsahta Press, Octopus Books, Black Ocean Books and Lame House. The Grand Prize winner will be awarded books from many of the above, plus the 30" x 40" acrylic on canvas painting that appears on the cover of Stratification. Prizes total in excess of $2000, and each raffle ticket will be sold for $5 with all of the proceeds going directly to LLS. Some of the evening's book sales to the charity, and there will be special prizes for those who donate more than $20.

David Lehman is a poet, writer, and editor. His seven books of poetry include When a Woman Loves a Man (2005). In 1996 he began writing a poem a day as an experiment. The practice continued for five years, and two books resulted: The Daily Mirror (2000) and The Evening Sun (2002), both from Scribner. Lehman's prose books include The Perfect Murder and Signs of the Times. He is the series editor of The Best American Poetry, which he launched in 1988. He has also edited the latest edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry (2006), The Best American Erotic Poems (2008), and Great American Prose Poems (2003), among other books. He heads the poetry division of the New School's graduate writing program, in which he has taught since the program's inception in 1996.

Meghan Punschke is the author of Stratification (BlazeVOX Books, 2008). She resides in New York City, and has an MFA in Poetry from the New School. She is the curator and host of Word ofMouth, a reading series dedicated to poets and fiction writers. She is also the Managing Editor for the literary journal Oranges & Sardines. Her poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2007. Please visit www.megpunschke.com for more info.

Amy King is the author of I'm the Man Who Loves You and Antidotes for an Alibi, both from Blazevox Books, and most recently, Kiss Me With the Mouth of Your Country (Dusie Press). She is the moderator for the Poetics List and the Women's Poetry Listserv, and teaches English and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College. She is currently editing an anthology, The Urban Poetic, forthcoming from Factory School. Please visit www.amyking.org for more.

Ana Božičević emigrated to NYC from Croatia in 1997. She's the author of chapbooks Document (Octopus Books, 2007) and Morning News (Kitchen Press, 2006). Look for her recent work in Denver Quarterly, Hotel Amerika, Bat City Review, absent, typo, fou and elsewhere. With Amy King, she is currently editing an anthology, The Urban Poetic (Factory School, forthcoming). Ana works at The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

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POLESTAR #2

Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 5 pm

JENNIFER KNOX. ADA LIMON.
TOM HAUSHALTER.

Downstairs at CAKESHOP
152 Ludlow
(between Stanton & Rivington)

Trains to:
Delancey-Essex Sts (F, J, M, Z)
2nd Ave-Houston St (F, V)
Grand St (B, D)

ABOUT THE POETS

Jennifer L. Knox has two books of poems in English, Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me—both available from Bloof Books. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 1997, 2003 and 2006, Best American Erotic Poems, Great American Prose Poems: From Poet to Present, and Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books. Jennifer was born in Lancaster, California— crystal meth capitol of the nation, and home to Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Space Shuttle.

Ada Limón’s first book, lucky wreck, was the winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize and her second book, This Big Fake World, was the winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize. She’s won the Chicago Literary Award and fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is the Creative Director for Travel + Leisure Magazine and teaches a Master Class for Columbia University. Her third book of poems Sharks in the Rivers, will be published by Milkweed Editions in 2010. She also sings in a band called Lucky Wreck.

Tom Haushalter, born of sturdy Midwestern stock, left the country for the city. Since the honor of an MFA from Columbia University, he has published poems in Greensboro Review, New Orleans Review, Harpur Palate, Slice Magazine and Perihelion. In the fall of 2006, Tom toured the American heartland with fellow poet Emmett Tracy, leaving them high on verse from Oberlin to Wheeling. Now he works in book publishing, and lives in Brooklyn with his bride.

INCOMING!

Sunday, October 5
Jennifer Michael Hecht
Craig Morgan Teicher
Ryan Davidson

Sunday, November 2
Jason Schneiderman
Michael Broder
Leanna Petronella

Sunday, December 7
Cate Marvin
Eve Grubin
Kathleen Ossip

www.polestarpoetry.com