My Friends or Friends of Friends Wrote Awesome Poetry Books in 2012part 1

Christie Ann Reynolds, Revenge for Revenge (Coconut Books) Angela Veronica Wong, how to survive a hotel fire(Coconut Books) Hannah Andrews, Slope Moves (Coconut Books) Ben Mirov, Hider Roser (Octopus Books) Jenny Zhang, Dear Jenny We're All Find (Octopus Books) Farrah Field, Wolf and Pilot (Four Way Books) Dan Magers, Partykinfe (Birds, LLC) Eric Amling, Legal Pure (Greying Ghost Press) Sampson Starkweather, Like Clouds Never Render (O'Clock Press) Mathias Svalina, The Explosions (Subito Press) Kim Gek Lin Short, China Cowboy (Tarpaulin Sky) Andrea Rexilus, half of what they carried flew away (Letter Machine Editions) Dottie Lasky, Thunderbird (Wave Books) Lily Ladewig, The Silhouettes (Sprig Gun Press) Joe Hall and Chad Hardy, The Container Store (Spring Gun Press)

Some News, Some News

Thanks to everyone who came out to either the Chapbook Release Party or the CUNY Chapbook Festival. Also, a super-big thanks to everyone who has bought or pre-ordered the book. If you haven't picked up a copy yet, you can swing over to here. If you're in BK/NYC, Berl's is currently sold-out but will get more copies towards the end of this month/beginning of May.

Speaking of the chapbook, Veronica & I have two more readings lined-up:
Sunday, May 2oth 3pm at the DC Arts Center for the In Your Ear Reading Series. Suggested donation, $5 & we'll be reading with Tony Mancus!!!
Wednesday, June 13th for the Southern Writers Reading Series. 7:30PM@Happy Endings on Broome St, NYC.

I have have two other readings
Saturday, May 12th at Flying Object in Northampton, MA with Dan Magers & Emily Pettit
Friday, June 15th for Fireside Follies in Bushwick, BK.

I leave for Japan on June 28th and come back on July 25th & then move to Miami shortly thereafter. Ah, New York... I hardly know ya.

New Immaculate Disciples Press Chapbook

I'm guest-editing the next title in Dan Magers's chapbook press, Immaculate Disciples, & I'm pleased to say, it's going to be a monster. It's a double chapbook of collaborative poems by Julia Cohen & Mathias Svalina. These are some of the best poems I've read in a long time. They are filled with whimsy and imagination, the dark stuff, the gutted stuff, & the blooming things that go bright in the sky. You can pick it up at AWP (Table Y:J2). After AWP, you'll be able to get it from the Immaculate website, at the CUNY Chapbook Fest, and from Berl's.

The cover was done by Joseph Lappie & screened near the Hudson River by Caitlin Wheeler.

Backyard Reading 6/25/2011

Your Friday/ Your Saturday

Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series

Friday, March 25 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Goodbye Blue Monday

Come out and be wowed by the ever-awesome Jackie Clark!! Ben Fama!! Matt Reiter!! Bianca Stone!! Amish Trivedi!! and Genya Turovskaya!!

More info at http://stainofpoetry.wordpress.com/

Yardmeter Editions

Saturday, March 26 · 7:30pm - 10:30pm

267 Douglass Street

Yardmeter 17 presents:

poetry readings by
Dan Magers and Francesca Chabrier,

a Max Ernst presentation
by Keith Newton,

and an operatic collaborative performance
featuring the music and visuals
of Rusty Banks and Karen Graffeo.

Please bring festive beverages.

http://yardmeter.blogspot.com/

Yardmeter Editions 16

-photos by Hitomi Yoshio

Awesome Is As Awesome Does

Farrah Field has a brand-new chapbook out on Immaculate Disciples Press! The chapbook has a silk-screen cover & the illustration is done by Matt Bollinger. For AWP, I shared a table with Dan Magers (who published this chapbook) & the level of excitement this book generated was intense. I had the chance to read my copy of it on the bus ride home from DC & fell into complete swoon. Pick up your copy of it here & check out the awesome poem by Farrah I snagged for the new ish of Sink Review here. Also check out my new favorite bookstore & Brooklyn's only all poetry bookstore!! ran by Jared White & Farrah Field. It's called Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop.

H_ngm_n E-Chaps Getting The Love

Yesterday, I posted the cover of my e-chap & linked the super-awesome review Brooklyn Copeland did about it. Today, it's Dan Magers turn. Adam Robinson reviews WHITE-COLLAR WORKER: I AM DESTINY here.

New Chapbook!!!

I have a new (e)chap available from H_ngm_n. Be green & download it here! The cover is by Dani Leventhal! Be sure to download Dan Magers (e) chap too, with cover art done by Matt Bollinger!

Esteemed poet & editor, Brooklyn Copeland, had nice things to say about the chapbook here.

In other news, I like this Pitchfork article on Trish Keenan (of Broadcast) who recently passed away.

Readings!!

Tonight!
SUPERMACHINE
Fri., Nov 12, 8pm
James Yeh
Hailey Higdon
Luke Bloomfield
Dan Magers
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SATURDAY November 13, 2PM
POETS HOUSE, 10 River Terrace
www.poetshouse.org

(Re)writing Culture with Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Craig Santos Perez & Barbara Jane Reyes

In this panel, three young poet-scholars investigate the intersection of research and poetic practice, including Perez’s interest in ethnography and poetry, Reyes’s practice of rewriting/retelling Filipino mythology and Lee’s exploration of geography, psychology and the textuality of nations (focusing specifically on the United States and North and South Korea).

$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members
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Yardmeter 13 presents:
readings by
Phill Provance
Natalie Lyalin
Ben Fama
and paintings by
Doug Campbell.

This all happens at
Shelton Walsmith's stuido,
7 p.m.,
November 13, 2010.
Please bring your own beverage.
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Farrah Field & Christie Ann Reynolds

Sunday, November 14 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
82 W. 3rd St.
Zinc Bar Reading Series
Farrah Field’s first book of poems, Rising, won Four Way Books’ 2007 Levis Prize. Her poems have appeared in many publications and are forthcoming in Fou, Drunken Boat, and Mantis. She co-hosts a reading series called Yardmeter Editions and blogs at adultish.blogspot.com. Her second book of poetry is forthcoming in 2012.

Christie Ann Reynolds is the author of Supermachine's first chapbook, Revenge Poems. idiot heart, a previous chapbook, was the 2008 winner of The New School Chapbook Competition. She teaches writing at Hofstra University and is co-curator of the Stain of Poetry Reading Series.

We request a $5 contribution.
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Join us for a night of poetry & libation!
Verlaine

Readings by Craig Santos Perez, Jason Koo & Solmaz Sharif

Open bar, 4:00 - 5:00pm
...Reading begins promptly @ 5pm
$5 suggested donation

Poets' Bios:

Craig Santos Perez, a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guahan (Guam), is the co-founder of Achiote Press and author of two poetry books: from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008) and from unincorporated territory [saina] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2010). He received the Poets & Writers California Writer’s Exchange Award in 2010. He earned an MFA from the University of San Francisco and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jason Koo is the author of Man on Extremely Small Island, winner of the 2008 De Novo Poetry Prize (C&R Press, 2009). He was born in New York City and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his BA in English from Yale, his MFA in creative writing from the University of Houston and his PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Missouri-Columbia. The winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, he has published his poetry and prose in numerous journals, including The Yale Review, North American Review and The Missouri Review. He teaches at Lehman College, where he serves as Director of Graduate Studies in English. He lives in Brooklyn.

Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif holds a BA in Sociology and Women of Color Writers from U.C. Berkeley and an MFA in poetry from New York University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in jubilat, Diagram, Witness, and PBS’s Tehran Bureau. Between 2002-2006, Sharif studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. She is the managing director of The Asian American Writers’ Workshop.


MISSION STATEMENT
Kundiman is dedicated to the creation, cultivation and promotion of Asian American poetry
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Sunday, November 14 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Soda Bar
629 Vanderbilt Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
Readings and Conversation with:
Mairéad Byrne, Daniel Groves, Stephanie Barber, Andy Devine, Adam Robinson

Mairéad Byrne emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1994, for poetry. Her books include The Best of (What’s Left of) Heaven (Publishing Genius 2010), Talk Poetry (Miami University Press 2007), SOS Poetry (/ubu Editions 2007), and Nelson & The Huruburu Bird (Wild Honey Press 2003). She lives in Providence and teache...s at Rhode Island School of Design. Check out the new book at http://www.whatsleftofheaven/.

Daniel Groves was born and raised in Narragansett, Rhode Island, and educated at Johns Hopkins University. His first book, The Lost Boys, was recently published as part of the VQR Series (University of Georgia Press). His poems have appeared in Paris Review, Yale Review, Poetry, and Best New Poets 2005. He is on staff at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

Stephanie Barber is a multi media artist who creates meticulously crafted, odd and imaginative films and videos as well as performance pieces which incorporate music, literature, video and anything she is thinking about. She has had numerous solo screenings of her film and video work including shows at MoMA and Anthology Film Archives (both in NYC), San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center, Chicago Filmmakers and The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Her performances have been featured at the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Milwaukee Museum of Art, The Haggerty Museum of Art and galleries and artspaces around the world. Her book poems was published in 2006 by Bronze Skull Press and these here separated to see how they standing alone or the soundtrack to six films by stephanie barber, a book and DVD, was published in May 2008 by Publishing Genius. Included in this book is her experimental essay “the inversion, transcription, evening track and attractor” (the soundtrack for the video of the same name) which was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Andy Devine’s alphabetical fiction and essays have appeared in a variety of literary magazines, including New York Tyrant, Unsaid, Elimae, Everyday Genius, and Taint. In 2002, he was awarded the Riddley Walker Prize (for a work that ignores conventional rules of grammar and punctuation). In 2007, he published a chapbook, “As Day Same That the the Was Year” (Publishing Genius). In 2009, Andy Devine was awarded The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Award (for fiction in the face of adversity). WORDS (2010, Publishing Genius) is his first book. Andy Devine Avenue — in Flagstaff, Arizona — is named after him.

Adam Robinson lives in Baltimore, where he runs Publishing Genius and plays guitar in Sweatpants, a rock band. His first book, Adam Robison and Other Poems, was just released by Narrow House. He writes for HTMLGIANT, the Internet literature magazine blog of the future.

If You Find Yourself in Philly on Saturday

I'm reading here: Fergies is located at 1214 Sansom Street, and is a frequent spot for poetry readings. Here is a link: http://www.fergies.com/.


Here is the reading roster:

James Belflower

Lauren Bender

Andy Devine

Kate Greenstreet

Joe Hall

Steven Karl

Dan Magers

Chris Mason

Adam Robinson

Ben Segal

Your Friday. Your Saturday.

Stain of Poetry

September 24, Friday ~ Deborah Ager, Eric Amling, Bill Freind, Laura Hinton, Janet Holmes & Debrah Morkun!

7 PM on September 24 @ Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Deborah Ager‘s first book, Midnight Voices, was published in 2009.
Her poems appear in Best New Poets 2006, The Bloomsbury Review, New England Review, The Georgia Review, Quarterly West and New South. She’s received fellowships from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and she received a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She is founding editor of 32 Poems Magazine. Many poems first appearing in 32 Poems have been honored in the Best American Poetry and Best New Poets anthologies and on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily.

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Eric Amling is the author of several chapbooks including TWIN VAPOR (Human Hair & Co.), SPLIT LEVEL IGLOO (Human Hair & Co.), and the most recent NINE LIVE TWO-HEADED ANIMALS (Greying Ghost Press). His illustrations and books can be found at www.humanhairandco.org

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Bill Freind is the author of American Field Couches (BlazeVox, 2008) and An Anthology (housepress, 2000); he is also editing a collection of essays on Araki Yasusada that is forthcoming from Shearsman. He lives near an abandoned golf course in South Jersey.

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Laura Hinton is the author of a poetry book, Sisyphus My Love (To Record a Dream in a Bathtub) (BlazeVox), and a critical book, The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911 (SUNY Press). She is also the co-editor of We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Women’s Writing and Performance Poetics (University of Alabama Press). She has edited three special sections for the online journal How2, including the current feature, “Reading Carla Harryman.” She is now at work (co-editor) of a special issue in Postmodern Culture on poet’s theater, as well as a book on women’s hybrid poetry and the arts. She is a Professor of English at the City College of New York. In New York City she edits a chapbook series, Mermaid Tenement Press, and comments on feminism and the hybrid arts at her blog site “Chant de la Sirene” (www.chantdelasirene.com).

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Janet Holmes is author of five books of poetry, most recently The ms of my kin (Shearsman) and F2F (U of Notre Dame Pr). She is also director and editor of Ahsahta Press, a 35-year-old all-poetry press based at Boise State University, and professor of English there in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

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Debrah Morkun lives in Philadelphia, where she is the founding member of The New Philadelphia Poets, a group committed to expanding the spaces for poetry in Philadelphia. Her first full-length book, Projection Machine, was released by BlazeVox Books April 2010. View some of her work at www.debrahmorkun.com.

at

Goodbye Blue Monday

1087 Broadway
(corner of Dodworth St)
Brooklyn, NY 11221-3013 (718) 453-6343

J M Z trains to Myrtle Ave
or J train to Kosciusko St

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Multifarious Array
Poetry and Comedy Night this Saturday, 9/25
Hello!

Please join us this Saturday at 7 p.m. for a Poetry and Comedy night. It is going to be funny!

Poets and comedians will include:

Evan Fleischer
Sommer Browning
Elisa Gabbert
Gabby Dunn
Mark Leidner
Dan Magers

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Evan Fleischer is a writer and a comedian. His work has appeared in McSweeney's and been praised by The Guardian and the head writer of the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (the first one) as "intelligent, admirable, and very funny" and "very funny and clever." He has a beard.


Sommer Browning writes poems, draws comics and tells jokes. Her first book of poems is coming out in 2011 with Birds, LLC. Visit her at www.asthmachronicles.com.


Elisa Gabbert is the poetry editor of Absent and the author of The French Exit (Birds, LLC) and Thanks for Sending the Engine (Kitchen Press). Recent poems can be found in Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, Puerto del Sol, The Rumpus, Salt Hill, and Sentence. She currently lives in Boston, works at a software startup, and blogs at The French Exit.


Gaby Dunn began her comedy career at Emerson College in Boston as a writer and performer in the sketch comedy troupe, Chocolate Cake City. As a stand-up comedian, she has performed at Boston's Comedy Studio, at Comix and the People's Improv Theater in NYC and at the show she co-produces and co-hosts, Mish Mosh. (Every second Thursday of the month, 8 pm, Birch Coffee, be there!) She is also a writer whose work has appeared in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Boston Globe, and on Comedy Central's thedailyshow.com and colbertnation.com, all of which she interned for in college. She is currently an entertainment media blogger for AOL TV Squad and Moviefone. She loves the Internet so much, she should just marry it.


Mark Leidner is the author of several chapbooks. Recent poems can be found in Skein and Lamination Colony. He also co-edits DUETS, an international chapbook series. He lives and tweets in western Massachusetts.


Dan Magers graduated from The New School’s MFA program and works on engineering books for a publishing company. He is co-founder and co-editor of Sink Review (sinkreview.org), an online poetry magazine, as well as a chapbook press called Immaculate Disciples Press. He has poems published in Sixth Finch, Eleven Eleven, the tiny, and forthcoming in Forklift, Ohio, among other places. A regular contributor of books reviews at New Pages (newpages.com), he currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Winter Mix

New York City finally got hit with all the snow the rest of the East Coast has been dealing with. I had to teach my Eng 101 course today but then the school closed for its afternoon classes, so after I had two student conferences I headed home to enjoy a grilled cheese and some coffee.

The weather is the perfect complement to the new Winter 2009/2010 issue of Free Verse which contains a special spotlight on New England poets edited by Chris Tonelli. I'm thrilled to say I have two excerpts from a couple of longer poems. I'm also happy to be in the company of two of my manuscript workshoppers- Dan Magers & Kaveh Bassiri & the my other "crew" ColdFront Mag is well represented too with poems by John Deming, Jackie Clark and DJ Dolack. There's a ton of other great poets and essays to be read as well so head on over and check it out here.

How High & Still Rising

I was planning on writing fancy and smart things about this book in hopes of hyping you dear readers to buy the book and/or come out to hear Ms. Field read this Saturday. But then I realized others have written plenty of smartish stuff already about Rising

How about Ron Slate, Dan Magers, and Ken Walker.

See her read this Saturday:
This weekend will be the year (!) anniversary of the Bushwick Reading Series, and to celebrate, we have four singular readers:

Franklin Bruno, author, musician, multihyphenate (Elvis Costello's Armed Forces, 33 1/3)
Farrah Field, poet (Rising, 4-Way Books)
Joanna Penn Cooper, poet (chapbook Mesmer forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press)
Jason Helm, fiction writer

The reading takes place, as always, from 3 to 5PM at Bushwick Library on 340 Bushwick Avenue, just a couple short blocks away from the Montrose Avenue L-stop. Here is a map both helpful and detailed. If you are still unsure, please don't hesitate to ask. You will know the library by its foreboding brick visage; head on downstairs, the librarians will be able to direct you, or you can catch me by the shirtsleeve as I will no doubt be flitting around arranging and greeting.

I'm not gonna lie; I'm super excited. I hope you are, too. Together we can drink a Drank Extreme Relaxation Beverage to "slow our roll" so that we don't die from hyper-anticipation. Another way to cope is to view the book recommendations, which are starting to go up on the BRS blog. The first is from Joanna Penn Cooper, and it's already up on the Bushwick Reading Series blog, so check it.

So Much To See & Do Don't Bother Shaking A Stick Or Twitching A Tweet

New ish of Spooky Boyfriend featuring a plethora of great poets such as Dan Magers and Nicole Steinberg.

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Always lava hot is Sous Rature so check out the new ish here

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I went to a panel yesterday on Hip-Hop, Pop, and Poetry for the Brooklyn Bookfest and wrote up a 'lil something for it, read that here

There's also a snapshot on G.C. Waldrep here

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How about a new e-chapbook collaboration from Sawako Nakayasu and Jen Hofer. What? Yep completely ridiculous in the way you love it most. Read it here.

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How 'bout the fact that Dan Magers & I are both reading on Saturday? Sadly at separate locations. Here's the info on Dan's reading. I'll post the flyer for mine on Wednesday.

Dear Gmail,

Please tell my friends that I am reading on Saturday at 2pm with Flarf powerhouse Katie Degentesh. I hear she's reading some new stuff, and I completely expect it to be amazing. Tell them that if they are not too hung over, or walking in the park with their loved ones, or making $$$, or staring into the void of your peeling bedroom walls, to please stop by and hear some Poetry.

Your #1 fan,

DPM


September 19: Katie Degentesh and Dan Magers

Katie Degentesh is the author of The Anger Scale. She lives in New York City.

Dan Magers is the co-editor of Sink Review (sinkreview.org). His chapbook Exploitation Poems was published in 2007, and he's had poems published in the tiny, Red China Magazine, and Thirteen Myna Birds.

2 PM on Saturday, September 12th at the Grand Central Branch of the New York Public Library: 135 East 46th Street, in the community/program room, which is on the upper level. Elevator available. Phone: (212) 621-0670. blog:http://grandcentralpoets.blogspot.com

Slasher Feud

Nathan Austin & Dan Magers
Weds., June 24. 7:00p.

Home Sweet Home

131 Chrystie Street
(J,M,Z to Bowery. F,V to 2nd Av., B,D to Grand St.)


http://thereadingseries.blogspot.com/


Nathan Austin's publications include Tie an O (Burning Press, 1998), (glost) (Handwritten Books, 2002) and Survey Says! (Black Maze Books, 2009). Poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Kiosk, Combo, Aufgabe, Tight, Diagram, and Little Red Leaves.


Dan Magers graduated from The New School's MFA program, and is co-editor of Sink Review (sinkreview.org), an online poetry magazine. He's had poems published in the tiny and Red China Magazine, Dick Pig Review, and Thirteen Myna Birds. He works at the publishing company John Wiley & Sons and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Saturday's Hit List

6-6-09: STEINBERG, PICCINNINI, MAGERS AND MORE @ THE BUSHWICK READING SERIES
340 Bushwick Avenue @ Siegel Street
3 to 5 PM
& it's freeeeeeee

From the lovely hostesses, Niina Pollari & Parker Phillips:

June 6th, 2009 marks the end of a glorious season of the BUSHWICK
READING SERIES -- we're an official Bushwick Open Studios Site! Join
us for these festive festivities, which include readings from poetic
moguls Nicole Steinberg, Douglas Piccinnini, and Dan Magers, as well
as an extraordinary interdisciplinary panel about the topic of
WILD/LIFE. What does that mean, exactly? You'll have to come find out
what they have to say. The cast of characters will remain unrevealed,
for now...

Bushwick Library is located on 340 Bushwick Avenue at Siegel Street, a
stone's throw from the Montrose Avenue stop off the L train and just a
little way from the Central Avenue M stop. As always, the reading
takes place from 3-5PM. Don't be late! We have too much planned for
you to be late, folks. If you're confused about the location, you can
find an incredibly helpful map here. Then, stay in town for a drink or
two and check out other Open Studios/Arts Festival events going on in
Bushwick -- http://artsinbushwick.org will give you a detailed
schedule.

Check out the Bushwick Reading Series website for audio of previous
readings -- including last month's, with a gorgeous operatic aria from
Pat Phillips -- as well as previous readers' book recommendations.
http://bushwickreadingseries.org.

Questions? Comments? Love notes? E-mail bushwickbunker@gmail.com.
We're humbly yours.

Dan Magers sends out an email about his June 6th reading and this picture is part of Sampson Starkweather's reply

Reminder, Tonight, This

This film is playing tonight at IFC-- both the 7:45 & 9:45 screenings will have the director and Cornel West. Tixs for the 7:45 are still available at the box office only, and 9:45 at the box office, as well as, online. I saw Cornel West speak a long time ago at Reed College. It's definitely worth the inevitable line you'll stand in tonight. If you can't make it tonight it the movie will start playing tomorrow over at Cinema Village.


If philosophy isn't your thang then check out Justin Taylor tonight at Teachers & Writers (see yesterday's post) & I hope to see everyone I know tomorrow at Dan and Raun's reading (Pete's Candy-see yesterday's post).

Pound Gets The Heat(on) Treatment & This Week's Mic Rawkers

Sorry I can't find a bigger image. Read about it here. I'm going to see it on the 11th. Come.
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Teachers & Writers Collaborative
cordially invites you to
a reading with

Andrew Porter, author of the short story collection
The Theory of Light and Matter, recipient of the
2007 Flannery O'Connor Award in Short Fiction

Justin Taylor, poet, writer, and editor of
The Apocalypse Reader and Come Back, Donald Barthelme,
honorable mention in Best American Essays 2007 for
"Fort Smith, Arkansas-A Monologue"

and

Ben Blum, first-year MFA candidate in fiction,
New York University, and 2008-2009
New York Times Fellow

Wednesday, March 4, 2009
7:00 PM - doors open
7:15 PM - program
at Teachers & Writers Collaborative



Queries: 212-691-6590 or events@twc.org
www.twc.org/events

DIRECTIONS

Directions to T&W at 520 Eighth Avenue on the 20th floor, between 36th & 37th, via subway: Take the A, C, or E train to 34th Street-Penn Station and Eighth Avenue or to Times Square Take the 1, 2, or 3 train to 34th Street-Penn Station and Seventh Avenue or to Times Square Take the N, Q, R, or W train to 34th Street-Herald Square and Sixth Avenue or to Times Square Take the B, D, F, or V train to 34th Street-Herald Square and Sixth Avenue Take the 4 or 5 train to 59th Street and transfer to a downtown F, N, R, or W train, or take the 7 train or Shuttle from Grand Central to Times Square Take the 6 train to 51st Street and transfer to a downtown E or V train, or take the 7 train or Shuttle from Grand Central to Times Square

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I'll definitely be at this reading!

March 6 – John Ebersole, Rauan Klassnik, Dan Magers & Sara Michas-Martin

Pete's Candy Store: 709 lorimer street - williamsburg, Brooklyn - 11211

John Ebersole teaches at Temple University. His most recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Western Humanities Review, Octopus Magazine, and Bateau.

Rauan Klassnik was born in South Africa and now lives in Mexico. His first book, Holy Land, was released from Black Ocean in 2008. His chapbook, Ringing, is forthcoming from Kitchen Press in early 2009 and a second chapbook, Dreaming, is due out in the summer from Scantily Clad Press. Rauan blogs actively at rauanklassnik.blogspot.com.

Dan Magers has poems published in the tiny and Red China Magazine, and his chapbook Exploitation Poems was published in 2007. He is a co-founder and editor of the online literary magazine Sink Review, and works in publishing. He lives in Brooklyn.

Sara Michas-Martin is a Former Wallace Stegner fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford. She recently joined the BFA low-residency faculty at Goddard College and lives in Brooklyn. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in APR, Bird Dog, Court Green, FIELD, Forklift, Ohio, and elsewhere.
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Can't make it to this because I'm going to the previous reading but it definitely is tempting, except I'll see Amy King later in the month at Upstairs at Erika's

Dear Sexy Ass Poets-

Don\'t forget that this Friday, Amy King, Gary Parrish, Buck Downs and Todd Colby are reading poems at the Bowery Poetry Club from 5 to 6:15, come and start the weekend right with a few drinks and new poetry.

All poets, all people welcome.

More info at

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://farfallapress.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F02%2Famy-king-gary-parrish-buck-downs-and.html
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I ain't gonna lie, I like being referred as a Sexy Ass Poet.