Klassnik Wag's Effing Press

Rauan Klassnik is interviewed about his first book. It's a good read and Rauan talks about meeting other poets while doing readings, etc which is cool 'cause that's exactly how I met Rauan. Black Ocean books donated some of their titles to a raffle charity which I won so I had read and raved about Holy Land before actually knowing Rauan. Anyways, the interview also talks about his first book process so you should check it out here

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There's a new issue of Wag's Revue!
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& this reading will be awesome (from Julia Cohen)

Hi friends,

Just a reminder about the reading this Tuesday. Mathias and I will be moving to Denver the very next day, so I'd love to see you all one last time before we leave. As the guest editor of the new issue of Effing Magazine, I'll be going to the issue launch that Scott Pierce organized, on Tuesday June 30th. I really hope you can come because it will be a great reading: Ada Limon, Justin Marks, and Farrah Field. If that isn't enough enticement, there will also be free wine and cheese.

Info below. Hope to see you there,
Julia

You can also pick up the new issue at the reading, which includes these poets:

Christian Hawkey, Lynn Xu, Dorothea Lasky, Tony Tost, Graham Foust, Farrah Field, Aaron Kunin, Mark Bibbins, Akilah Oliver, Kimberly Lyons, Justin Marks, Rachel Zucker, Abraham Smith, Anne Lendon Heide, Shane McCrae, Ada Limon, K. Silem Mohammad, Timothy Liu, Jill Magi, Kiwao Nimura



Effing Press
(Austin, Texas)

Tues., June 30, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free

ACA Galleries
529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC

Event will be hosted by
Effing Press publisher Scott Pierce


Featuring readings from

Farrah Field
Ada Limon
Justin Marks


with music from

Katie May

There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

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**Effing Press
http://www.effingpress.com/

Effing Press was founded by Scott Pierce in 2002 in Austin, Texas. To date, Effing has published over 30 books and eight issues of the effing magazine, all designed, printed, and bound in-house by volunteers. Effing also provides design and letterpress printing services.


*Performer Bios*

**Farrah Field
http://adultish.blogspot.com/

Farrah Field’s poems have appeared in Chelsea, Harp & Altar, Harpur Palate, Margie, Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, Pool, and Typo. She was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming and raised in Nebraska, Colorado, Louisiana, Arkansas, Sicily, and Belgium. She lives in Brooklyn.


**Ada Limón
http://adalimon.blogspot.com/

Ada Limon's first book, lucky wreck, was the winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize and her second, This Big Fake World, was the winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize. Her third book of poems, Sharks in the Rivers, will be published by Milkweed Editions next year.


**Justin Marks
http://justinanselmarks.blogspot.com/

Justin Marks' first book is A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press). He is also the author of several chapbooks, the most recent being Voir Dire (Rope-a-Dope Press). New work can be found in the Raleigh Quarterly and Tusculum Review. He is the founder and editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City with his wife and their infant son and daughter.


**Katie May
http://www.myspace.com/katiemaysingforyou

Katie May has had jobs serving fries, making marimbas, and telling at banks.

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Directions:
C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues

They Come & Go Like That

Hey how was your weekend? I had the gnocci at Dumonts on Friday & then went to a going away party. If you were in New York then you know Saturday was beautiful so I spent it walking around the city, sitting, reading, etc then went to the Lungful release party then watched the Blazers play crappy basketball. Sunday I meant to attend the Alice Notely reading, but missed it. Did you go? How was it? Matthew Rohrer read last night with Laura Sims but I didn't go to that either. But I did email in a review. Now only three to go before the April 30th deadline. & there's that thing of a manuscript & there's that thing of a chapbook. I'm tired just thinking about it. I might go make dinner. I might download music. I might go over a lesson plan for tomorrow. But you should check your calendars & consider going to some of these:

Readings and music at KGB Bar with various past and current New School
MFA talent! Next Wednesday April 22!
Including:
Poets Ben Mirov and Brandon Johnson
Fiction Writer Minju Pak
Musician (and writer) Matt Everett with his duo Cloud Chamber,
featuring pianist Anne Damassa

All free!! And in the civilized time-slot of 7-9 PM.
KGB Bar is at 85 East 4th St. btw 2nd & 3rd Ave.
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A CELEBRATION OF THE CHAPBOOK

A Celebration of the Chapbook festival calls attention to the rich history of the chapbook and highlights its essential place in poetry publishing today as a vehicle for alternative poetry projects and for emerging authors and editors to gain entry into the literary marketplace. The festival will forge a new platform for the study of the chapbook inside and outside the academy and celebrate the importance of chapbooks to America’s cultural heritage and future.

***Thursday, April 23***
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue & 34th St

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Chapbook Fair
10:00am-6:00pm, The Elebash Recital Hall Lobby

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Brief History of Chapbooks
3:00-4:30pm, The Elebash Recital Hall

With Isaac Gewirtz, Curator of the New York Public Library’s Berg Collection; Eric Lorberer, Editor of Rain Taxi; and Michael Ryan, Director of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Columbia University. Moderated by Richard Kaye, Hunter College, CUNY

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Chapbooks in the 20th and 21st Centuries
4:30-6:00pm, The Elebash Recital Hall

With Michael Basinski, Assistant Curator of the Poetry/Rare Books Collection of the University Libraries, SUNY at Buffalo; Anne Waldman, Chair and Artistic Director of Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program; and Kevin Young, Emory University. Moderated by Ammiel Alcalay, Queens College, CUNY.

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Keynote Reading
6:00pm, The Elebash Recital Hall

Readings by Lytton Smith, Gerald Stern, Judith Vollmer, Kevin Young and others, with an introduction by Kimiko Hahn.

***Friday, April 24***
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue & 34th St

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Chapbook Fair
10:00am-4:00pm, Rooms 8301/8304

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Chapbook Now: Producing Chapbooks
A Workshop for Poets
10:00-11:30am, Room 8400

With Rachel Levitsky (Belladonna*); Sharon Dolin (The Center for Book Arts); and Ryan Murphy (North Beach Yacht Club). Moderated by Alice Quinn (Poetry Society of America).

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Chapbook Now: Producing Chapbooks
A Workshop for Publishers
11:30am-1:00pm, Room 8402

With Jen Benka (Booklyn); Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse); and Brenda Iijima
(Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). Moderated by Rob Casper (Poetry Society of America).

To register, call (212) 817-2005 or e-mail abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu – registration is offered on a first-come, first-serve basis.

***Friday, April 24***
The Center for Book Arts
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor

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Bookmaking for Writers: A Studio Workshop
With Susan Mills and Karen Randall
2:00-5:00pm

Bookmaking for Publishers: A Studio Workshop
With Susan Mills and Karen Randall
2:00-5:00pm

To register, call (212) 481-0295 or e-mail info@centerforbookarts.org – registration is
offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. There's a $20 materials fee for each workshop.

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RECEPTION
The Center for Book Arts
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor
6:00 pm

All are welcome!

***Saturday, April 25***
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A

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Collector’s Show-and-Tell:
The Secret History of Asian American Literature
Patricia Wakida
2:00-3:00pm

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Publishing from the Margins
4:30-6:00pm

With Tan Lin; Dawn Lundy Martin (Third Wave Foundation, Black Took Collective); and Bushra Rehman. Moderated by Ken Chen (The Asian American Writers’ Workshop). Followed by a brief reading from the Workshop's Postcard Poetry Project.

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RECEPTION
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A
6:00 pm
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Poetry at A Public Space

A Public Space is hosting a poetry reading series this month here in our offices to celebrate National Poetry Month.

Thursday, April 23rd @ 7 pm featuring: Heather Christle, Idra Novey, Mathias Svalina

Venue: A Public Space

323 Dean Street (between 3rd and 4th Ave.)

Boerum Hill, Brooklyn 11217

718-858-8067

www.apublicspace.org

The readings are free, and they'll be followed by receptions.

Heather Christle grew up in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. She is the author of The Difficult Farm, a poetry collection forthcoming from Octopus Books.

Idra Novey’s first book of poems, The Next Country, was published by Alice James Books in fall 2008. She teaches in the School of the Arts at Columbia University and in the Bard College Prison Initiative.

Mathias Svalina is a co-editor of Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. He is the author of nine chapbooks and collaboratively written chapbooks. His first book, Destruction Myth, is forthcoming from the CSU Poetry Center in October.

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The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series

April 24th @ 7 PM - Stain Bar - Williamsburg, Brooklyn featuring: Jennifer Burch, Heather Green, Chris Hosea, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Daniel Lin, Barry Schwabsky. Hosted by Amy King and Ana Božičević.

stain bar

766 grand street

brooklyn, ny 11211

(L train to Grand Street, 1 block west)

Jennifer Burch’s first book, No Matter, was released by The Winged Way (September 2008). Jennifer has published work in Article, Free Verse, Guernica, Left Facing Bird, Sal Mimeo, and Verse, and is included in Green Integer's forthcoming anthology, The Gertrude Stein Awards.

Heather Green's work has appeared in Barrow Street, DIAGRAM, The Hat, Lungfull!, Pebble Lake Review, Tarpaulin Sky, and other journals. She's the author of the chapbook The Match Array (Dancing Girl Press, 2008).

Chris Hosea's poems appear in VOLT, Swerve, Denver Quarterly, Article, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, and The Literary Review. With Cecily Iddings, he edits The Blue Letter, a free direct-mail poetry newsletter.

Sueyeun Juliette Lee edits Corollary Press, a chapbook series devoted to new work by writers of color. Recent work has appeared in Effing, One Less, and online at critiphoria.org. Her chapbooks include Mental Commitment Robots (yo yo labs), Perfect Villagers (Octopus Books) and Trespass Slightly In (Coconut). Her first full-length collection, That Gorgeous Feeling, is out from Coconut Books.

Daniel Lin has a chapbook, Tinder, from Nightboat Books (2004), and has recently published poems in Unsplendid and The Jewish Quarterly. He was a N.Y. Times Fellow at NYU and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers' Conference.

Barry Schwabsky is an American poet and art critic living in London. His new collection of poems, Book Left Open in the Rain, is published imminently by Black Square Editions and is available from SmallPpress Distribution. He writes regularly for The Nation and Artforum, among others. He is the author of Opera: Poems 1981-2002 (Meritage Press) and The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art (Cambridge University Press) as well as several chapbooks of poetry and contributions to dozens of books and exhibition catalogues on contemporary and modern art.

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EARSHOT!

Join us at Rose Live Music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!

Friday, April 24th at 8 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Admission: $5 + FREE DRINK!

Hosted by Nicole Steinberg

Featuring:
Christine Leclerc (Counterfeit)
Chris Tonelli (Wide Tree)
Stephen Weiss (New York University)
Lauren Hunter (The New School)
Selena Anderson (Columbia University)

ROSE LIVE MUSIC is located at 345 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Havemeyer and Marcy. Visit their website for directions: http://liveatrose.com.

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Friday April 24th--Pete's Candy Store, 7 p.m.
with Jen Currin, Christine Leclerc, Farrah Field, and G.E. Patterson
709 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn
http://www.petescandystore.com/bigpoetry/index.html

Wednesday April 29th--Home Sweet Home, 7 p.m.
with Jared White & Farrah Field
131 Chrystie Street
http://thereadingseries.blogspot.com/

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It's "poetrytime"

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READ THIS SATURDAY

APRIL 25th @ 8pm

390 SENECA AVE.

CORNER OF SENECA & STANHOPE

RIDGEWOOD, QUEENS

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www.poetrytimeatspacespace.blogspot.com

A Week In What's Good

David Lehman Reading at Stella Adler Studio
The Stella Adler Studio of Acting and The Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series present David Lehman.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
@ The Stella Adler Studio of Acting
31 W. 27th St., 3rd Fl.
New York, NY 10001
(212)689-0087, ext. 27
www.stellaadler.com

David Lehman was educated at Columbia University and spent two years in England as a Kellett Fellow at Cambridge University. His books of poetry include Yeshiva Boys (Fall 2009), When a Woman Loves a Man (2005), The Evening Sun (2002), and The Daily Mirror (2000), all from Scribner. Lehman has edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006), The Best American Erotic Poems (Scribner, 2008), and Great American Prose Poems (Scribner, 2003), among other collections. He has written six nonfiction books, most recently A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs (Nextbook /Schocken, 2009). His other prose books include The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets (Doubleday Anchor), Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man (Simon and Schuster), and The Perfect Murder (University of Michigan Press). He has received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts as well as an Award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught in the graduate writing program of the New School in New York City since the program's inception in 1996. He initiated The Best American Poetry series in 1988.
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On Thursday April 2nd, at 730PM, The Agriculture Reader will make its official NYC debut with a reading and launch party at the Stainbar of Brooklyn. Jeremy and I will proudly present four readers, who will thrill you, for just long enough but not for too long. Those readers will be Justin Marks, Sharon Mesmer, Mike McDonough and Mark Doten. Copies of the magazine will be sold at a discount. Life will be good. Stainbar is located at 766 Grand street. You get there by taking the L train to the Grand street stop. For a map, you can consult the event's Time Out New York listing-

http://newyork.timeout.com/events/books/275645/agriculture-reader-event

Also, you may wish to know--if you don't already--that The Agriculture Reader now has a web presence. http:.//theagreader.com/
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Pete's Candy Store/ April 3rd/7pm

http://www.multifariousarray.blogspot.com/

Please join Multifarious Array for a reading featuring four stellar poets.

Steven Karl is the author of two chapbooks, Lovers' Last Go Around (Peptic Robot Press, 2005) and State(s) of Flux, a collaboration with the artist, Joseph Lappie (Peptic Robot Press, 2009). His poems have appeared in Barrow Street, No Tell Motel, Real Poetik, Sawbuck, Zoland Anthology of Poetry, and other fine journals. His essays and reviews have appeared in Teachers & Writers Magazine, Sink Review, Cold Front Magazine, and Galatea Resurrects.

Cindy Savett teaches poetry workshops at psychiatric institutions in the Philadelphia area to both acute short-term and residential patients. Her book, Child in the Road, was recently released. She is published in numerous print and on-line journals, including Margie, Heliotrope, LIT, The Marlboro Review, and Free Verse.

Carrie Olivia Adams serves as poetry editor for Black Ocean. Her poems and reviews have appeared in such journals as Backwards City Review, Cranky, DIAGRAM, Lilies and Cannonballs Review, and Verse. She is the author of the chapbook, A Useless Window, and her first full-length collection of poems, Intervening Absence, available from Ahsahta Press.

Joshua Harmon is the author of Quinnehtukqut, a novel, and Scape, a collection of poems. His fiction, poems, and essays have appeared in many journals, including Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, and Verse. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and the Dutchess County Arts Council.
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"yardmeter editions presents: Farrah Field, Jon Pack & Mathias Svalina" on Friday, April 3 at 7:30pm.

Mathias says, "Hi! This will be the first of an ongoing series of events in Gowanus that are hosted by a wonderful artist Shelton Walsmith.

This one features photographer Jon Pack, poet Farrah Field, me. Fun times! Free wine!

Event: yardmeter editions presents: Farrah Field, Jon Pack & Mathias Svalina
"photography show & poetry reading"
What: Opening
Host: yardmeter editions
Start Time: Friday, April 3 at 7:30pm
End Time: Friday, April 3 at 9:00pm
Where: yardmeter studio

Something Twisted In Them There Fields

Farrah Field's first book is out and you can read a review for it here.