Because It Continues We Continue

If you happen to live in New York or Brooklyn, I'd be so very please to see you tomorrow for the Friday Late Night Series at Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. It starts at 10pm & I'm reading with the ever-awesome Kathleen Miller.

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A podcast of me reading for InDigest 3yr anniversary party is here.

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Paige Taggart at Softblow

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How about a new issue of Esque!

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GlitterPony

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Bookslut on Bhanu Kapil

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Tony Hoagland writes a lame & seemingly racist poem here Claudia Rankine responds to said excuse of a poem here. It's under "AWP"

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Nicolette Wong has a new flash fiction piece here

Your Friday/ Your Sunday

Harp & Alter have out a new issue and will be featured on Friday at the Poetry Project.
New ish here, info for reading below:
Please join us this Friday, Dec. 10, at the Poetry Project for a reading to celebrate the release of the eighth issue of Brooklyn-based online magazine Harp & Altar. Edited by Keith Newton and Eugene Lim, Harp & Altar has emerged over the past four years as an important new source for innovative and risk-taking literature, publishing poetry and fiction alongside criticism and reviews of writing and art. Keith Newton will give a brief talk about the magazine, and readings will be given by Harp & Altar contributors Jared White and Shane Book.

As usual, this all gets started at 10pm in Parish Hall.


Keith Newton is co-editor of The Harp & Altar Anthology (Ellipsis Press, 2010), a selection of writing from the online magazine Harp & Altar, which he founded in 2006. His chapbook Sent Forth to Die in a Happy City was published last year by Cannibal Books, and his writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, 1913, Harvard Review, Konundrum Engine, Typo, Cannibal, Saltgrass, Sink Review and Ekleksographia, among other journals. He lives in Brooklyn.

Shane Book recently directed a film based on his first poetry collection, Ceiling of Sticks, which won the 2009 Prairie Schooner Book Prize and was published this fall by University of Nebraska Press. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His work has been translated into Italian and has appeared in numerous American, British and Canadian magazines, in anthologies—including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets—and on film. His honors include a New York Times Fellowship in Poetry, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a National Magazine Award.

Jared White’s chapbook Yellowcake was included in the hand-sewn anthology Narwhal from Cannibal Books in 2009. His poems have been recently published or are forthcoming in Action Yes, Coconut, Fulcrum, La Petite Zine, Laurel Review, Meridian, Modern Review, No, Dear, and Horse Less Review, and his essays on poetry and music have appeared in Open Letters Monthly, Poets Off Poetry, and Harp & Altar. He lives in Brooklyn, where he co-directs the Yardmeter Editions event series and blogs at jaredswhite.blogspot.com.

Awesomeness

Thanks to Dustin Luke Nelson & Jess Grover for nominating "Friends for the Departed" for a Pushcart from InDigest.

Some Thing I've Been Up To Including News On An Exciting December Reading

I have a collab list with Katy Henriksen up on Coldfront featuring some excellent poetry subscriptions. Check it out here.

I also have an essay write-up on the Poets House (Re)Writing Culture panel featuring Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Barbara Jane Reyes, and Craig Santos Perez. Check that out here.

InDigest Magazine is having a 3 year anniversary reading & I've been invited! There will be broadsides & an amazing line-up featuring: Becca Klaver , Martin Rock , Leigh Stein , Ronaldo V. Wilson , Erica Wright , me , Bianca Stone , Jackie Clark and Autumn Giles. It's on December 12 at 7pm. All info here.

Official & Unofficial Reccomendations for (Ir)Rational Animal

InDigest Magazine included (Ir)Rational Animals among their 10 favorite chapbooks for 2010. What an honor especially considering the company I'm included in. Check it out here!

On her blog, Sueyeun Juliette Lee wrote, "And for those of you who haven’t checked out his chapbook, you should check out (Ir)Rational Animals (Flying Guillotine Press), a delirious exploration of human (s/t)exuality."

Thomas Fink (via email) had this to say about the chapbook, "Thank you very much for (IR)RATIONAL ANIMALS. I hope we will get a chance soon to discuss your use of the page, which has ample innovative drive, and what I take to be an interesting doubling gesture about the issue (in both sense of the noun) of pornography--a kind of Bakhtinian double-voiced discourse or, more generally, heteroglossia."

Claire Donato (via a text message) said this about (Ir)Rational Animals, "Yr chapbook is rad! In the awesome sense. And radical! In the innovative sense. I love it! Treat to read yr work."

The Home Video Review of Books reviewed it here.

The chapbook is close to being sold out so if you want a copy go over here & pick one up.

Podcast, journals, readings

InDigest has put out a podcast for the reading I did. I manage to read poems & blather on about the 76ers. Check it out here.

There's a new ish of Sixth Finch over here and Lamination Colony over here.

I'm teaching tonight but here's a reading just for you:



WE HAVE CONNECTIONS & WE ARE GOING TO EXPLOIT THEM

Join us on Thursday, October 28 at 7 PM for A Very Special Chrystie Street co-hosted by Molly Dorozenski & Leigh Stein. Featuring Alex Phillips*, Lauren Ireland's former employer, and Lauren Ireland, Alex Phillips' former employee. Also featuring backslapping, boardroom cackling, dirty deals, & poetry. Yeah, it's a week late. That's because we do whatever we want.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28
7 PM Sharp (ha ha, I know)
The Four-Faced Liar
165 W. 4th St., at 6th Ave.

Alex Phillips was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1977. He is the poet in residence at Fort Juniper in Cushman Village, Amherst, and is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts.

Lauren Ireland usually hosts this reading series & is always an editor at Lungfull! Magazine. She grew up in southern Maryland & coastal Virginia & currently lives in Brooklyn. Find her work at oui-ja-yes.blogspot.com.

*Alex Phillips is an amazing poet & adorable person. He actually made it on merit, which means that American poetry might be okay after all.

Upcoming Readings- Mine & Others

Brooklyn

Friday, October 1st, Pete's Candy Store 7pm Me with Buck Downs & Marisa Crawford
http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/

Queens

Join us October 2nd at PS1 for a reading of new work by Corrine Fitzpatrick,
Jeremy Hoevenaar, and Brett Price, three poets whose practice engages language
as a site of anxious yet undaunted negotiation with perception, memory,
meaning, and the semiotic chaos of contemporary life.

Saturday, October 2 · 2:30pm - 4:30pm

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, room S301 of the third floor Archive Galleries.
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave Long Island City, NY

http://www.ps1.org/calendar/view/247/


Manhattan
Sunday, October 3rd, Le Poisson Rouge 7:30 Me with Sasha Fletcher and Arthur Phillips
http://indigestmag.com/blog/?p=641

Ben Fama & Emily Pettit
Oct. 3, 5pm
Polestar Reading Series
Cakeshop
152 Ludlow St.
New York, NY
BOOK RELEASE PARTY!

Busy Is As Busy Does

Hello all four or five you that still keep up with this blog. My apologies for infrequent posts. Part of that has to do with summer & the necessity to "lax" on all things that aren't relaxing & part of it has to do with being a bit busy. I had two friends come into town last weekend + the Popsickle festival (there are great pics up on Facebook).

I've also become the News Editor for Coldfront & here's a link to a review of Popsickle written by myself & Ken L. Walker.

Shortly after Popsickle I had a reading for Eleven Eleven & then covered the LIT 18 release party/reading. Here's a link in which John Deming, myself, & DJ Dolack conspire to bring you the dope.

I've also been assisting the editors of Sink Review & I can tell you the next issue is going to be damn good!

Finally, the new ish of InDigest is out & it features poetry from Ronaldo Wilson , Steven Karl (me), Becca Klaver, Martin Rock, Emma Bean, Bianca Stone, and more. New narratives from Abby Frucht, Kyle Francis, and Sam Osterhout. Essays from Careful's Eric Lindley and Rogue Valley's Chris Koza. Plus audio stories, InDialogues, online broadsides, poetry paintings, galleries, and more.

Because 4 Is A Nice Number

How about two (new to me) online journals worth your eyes, ears & poems:

InDigest (be sure to scroll through the archives too for some great stuff!)

Whiskey & Fox (which is a damn fine name!)

& two more readings for Friday:


This Friday, March 26, at 7pm

Amy McNamara, Ekoko Omadeke, Priscilla Becker, Mark Leidner & Ben Mirov walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What is this joke? Some kind of Objective Correlative?"

*ba dum chik*

Amy McNamara is a writer and photographer. Her poems have made appearances in Barrow Street, Conduit, jubilat, Linebreak, LIT, The Literary Review, 2River View and are coming out soon in New CollAge and Versal. Amy is married to the artist Doug McNamara and they live in Brooklyn with their two kids.

Ekoko Omadeke is a Virginia native who refuses to get a NY state ID. She currently pursues an MFA from New York University and curates the Southern Writers Reading Series at Happy Ending Lounge. Though her heart belongs to Brooklyn sidewalks and bodega sandwiches, Ekoko lives and writes in Manhattan.

Priscilla Becker’s first book of poems, Internal West, won The Paris Review book prize, and was published in 2003. Her poems, book reviews & essays have appeared in Fence, Open City, The Paris Review, The New York Sun, Cabinet and Open City. Her essays have also been anthologized by Soft Skull Press, Anchor Books, and Sarabande. She teaches poetry at Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and in her apartment. Her second book, Stories That Listen, is forthcoming from Four Way Books

Mark Leidner is the author of two chapbooks, The Night of 1,000 Murders (Factory Hollow Press, 2007) and The Empire (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). He lives and tweets in western Massachusetts.

Ben Mirov is the author of the chapbooks I is to Vorticism (New Michigan Press, 2010) and Ghost Machine (forthcoming from Caketrain Press, 2010). He is general editor of pax americana. He is also poetry editor of LIT Magazine.

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(718) 302-3770

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Visit http://www.multifariousarray.blogspot.com/ for links to their
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"Bozek Braid Broder Clark Marvin & Ralph!" on Friday, March 26 at 7:00pm.

Event: Bozek Braid Broder Clark Marvin & Ralph!
Start Time: Friday, March 26 at 7:00pm
End Time: Friday, March 26 at 9:00pm
Where: Goodbye Blue Monday