Earshot!!

I'm reading at this tomorrow!

EARSHOT rides again on Friday, November 20th at 7:30pm, and as always, we'll be providing your pre-Thanksgiving lit fix at the fabulous Rose Live Music (345 Grand Street) in Williamsburg, Bklyn!

What lies in store for you, gentle Earshot lover? How about poet JOANNA FUHRMAN (author of the new collection *Pageant*) and STEVEN KARL (author of the forthcoming chapbook *(Ir)Rational Animals* and *States of Flux*)! They'll be joined by three MFA whiz kids: Brittney Inman (The New School), Kate Hall (City College) and Lynne Beckenstein (NYU).
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All this for $5 and a FREE drink! Something to be thankful for, yes? Join us there!


EARSHOT!

Friday, November 20th @ 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg
$5 + one free drink

Featuring:

Joanna Fuhrman (*Pageant*, *Moraine*)
Steven Karl (*(Ir)Rational Animals*, *States of Flux*)
Brittney Inman (The New School)
Kate Hall (City College)
Lynne Beckenstein (New York University)

Rose Live Music is located at 345 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Havemeyer and Marcy. Visit their website for directions: http://roselivemusic.com.

EARSHOT is a bi-monthly reading series, dedicated to featuring new and emerging literary talent in the NYC area. Visit http://www.earshotnyc.com for more information or e-mail Nicole Steinberg at earshotnyc@gmail.com.

Follow the EARSHOT twitter feed at http://twitter.com/earshotnyc

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At the Poetry Project

Isabelle Garron & Rosmarie Waldrop
Wednesday, 8:00 pm

Isabelle Garron (b. 1968) is a younger generation French poet who teaches in Paris. She is the author of Qu’il faille (Editions Flammarion 2007), Face devant contre (Editions Flammarion 2002), Déferlage II (Editions Les Cahiers de la Seine 2002), and Le corps échéant (Editions Les Cahiers de la Seine 2000). Garron has also participated as poet and/or editor in various French journals, including Petite, Action Poétique, Action restreinte, Rehauts, and La Polygraphe. English translations of her poetry have appeared in Double Change, 1913: a journal of forms, and Verse. The chapbook Face Before Against, in Sarah Riggs’s translation, was released by Seeing Eye Books in 2005. Garron’s interest in Pierre Reverdy gave rise to a publication of La Lucarne Ovale in its original form (Théâtre Typographique 2001). She is a regular participant with Jean Daive in the France Culture radio broadcast, "Peinture Fraiche" ("Wet Paint") on contemporary art. Garron will be joined by her translator Sarah Riggs.

Rosmarie Waldrop’s recent poetry books are Curves to the Apple, Blindsight (New Directions), Splitting Image (Zasterle), and Love, Like Pronouns (Omnidawn). Her collected essays, Dissonance (if you are interested), is out from University of Alabama Press. Her translation of Ulf Stolterfoht’s Lingos I-IX (Burning Deck) was awarded the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, 2008. She has also translated books by Friederike Mayröcker, Elke Erb, Oskar Pastior, Gerhard Rühm and, from the French, Edmond Jabès, Emmanuel Hocquard and Jacques Roubaud.
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The Asian American Writers' Workshop presents Kazim Ali, Myung Mi Kim, Cathy Park Hong, Tan Lin, Warren Liu, and Dorothy Wang

Friday, November 14, 7pm
A special night featuring Kazim Ali and honoring Myung Mi Kim's Dura

Join us for a special night honoring the work of legendary experimental poet Myung Mi Kim and the re-release of her book Dura.

The night begins with Kazim Ali, whose The Far Mosque, possesses, in the words of Meena Alexander, "a metaphysical feel ... that renders it fit for our globalized age, a geography underwritten by the loss of fixed abode." Myung Mi Kim reads from Dura, a classic of avant-garde poetics at once formally challenging and politically engaged. Influenced by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee, Dura is an investigation of national and personal identity that asks, in the words of Sueyeun Juliette Lee, both what it means to be Korean American and what it means to define space in national terms. After the reading, four prominent Asian American experimental poets--Cathy Park Hong, Tan Lin, Warren Liu, and Dorothy Wang--respond to Dura and Myung's body of work.

@ The Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)

$5 suggested donation; open to the public

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I've never met Vincent, but he accepted one of my poems for Vanitas, so I'm going to try and rush back from a 5'oclock appointment at Laguardia to catch his reading:

Wednesday, November 19^th

Poetry Forum: Vincent Katz

David Lehman, Moderator

6:30pm, 66 W 12^th St, Rm 510, $5 (Free to NS Students and Alumni)

Vincent Katz, author of Black Mountain College: An Experiment, is a poet, writer, art critic, and translator. Katz will read and comment on the Black Mountain poets, such as Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan.

Praise for Vincent Katz’s Black Mountain College: An Experiment:

In the space of two covers, Katz manages to evoke a world of cross-media artistic possibility that seems as vast as it was often joyous.—Publishers Weekly

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My friend is looking for submissions for a new online lit journal:

Dear Friends,

I have joined forces with a few people to start an on-line literary journal. Our ideal launch date is January, 2009.

The journal is called Scapegoat and the URL is www.scapegoatreview.com. Please keep in mind that the journal is not up and running yet - if you go to the URL, you will see only an outline of what it will look like.

We are currently seeking submissions for all genres - poetry, fiction and non fiction (word limit for fiction and non fiction is 500 words).

If you are interested in submitting, please do so on the submission form found on our website. Feel free to email the site or me directly with any questions you might have.

Thanks, and I look forward to reading your work!

Best,
Kate Hall

Two Poets I Recommend Reading On The Same Bill

I've read at this location maybe back in the winter and had a good time. Brooke is nice and the gallery so small it feels like everyone is there for just you! I'm a big fan of Liesel (who also just graduated from New School's MFA program) and Kate Hall- who lines always make me jealous! Come and see them + the others.


JOIN US FOR A READING AT PARK SLOPE’S 440 GALLERY!



WHEN: Sunday, June 10th from 4:30-6:00 pm

WHERE: 440 Gallery, 440 Sixth Avenue (at 9th St., F to 7th Ave.)

CONTACT: Brooke Shaffner at brshaffner@hotmail.com

Admission Free



WHO:

LIESEL TARQUINI

Liesel Tarquini recently graduated from the New School with an MFA in poetry. She will be leaving Manhattan in August for a Fulbright residency in Berlin focused on translating contemporary German poetry, and is in need of a poetry patron (no sugar daddies, please!). For more information, see www.lieseltarquini.com.



DOUGLAS LIGHT

Douglas Light is the author of the novel East Fifth Bliss, which received the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award for Fiction. His short fiction won an O. Henry Award, and has appeared or is forthcoming in the Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 anthology, StoryQuarterly, and the Alaska Quarterly Review. To contact the author, please visit www.douglaslight.com.



KATE HALL

Kate Hall received the Robert Frost Poetry Prize while a senior at Kenyon College. Her poetry, stories, and nonfiction have appeared in such publications as The Antioch Review, Rattle, Perihelion, Mr. Beller's Neightborhood, The Brooklyn Rail, The Mississippi Review, 3:AM Magazine, 5_Trope, and Stirring, where she served as a poetry editor. She was recently nominated for storySouth’s Million Writers award for fiction and won a Time Out New York short story contest. She holds a JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives in Greenpoint.



CHERYL BURKE

Cheryl Burke’s work appears in dozens of print and online publications. She is also the creator and producer of PVC: The Poetry vs. Comedy Variety Show, a monthly event at the Bowery Poetry Club featuring comedians and performance poets. Cheryl has given readings and performances of her work throughout the US and Great Britain. In 2003, Cheryl received an artists’ fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Cheryl lives in Brooklyn. Her website is www.cherylb.com, and she blogs at http://theblist.blogspot.com.



SHANEE EPSTEIN

Shanee Epstein, June’s featured artist and a co-founder of the 440 Gallery, will give a talk on her work. Epstein is a painter and educator living in Park Slope. She received her undergraduate degree at The University of Massachusetts and her MFA at Pratt Institute. Her latest show, Polyphony, a collection of abstract paintings, continues an exploration of color that the artist began three years ago. The paintings are hung in a melodic line around the gallery, allowing a dialogue between the pieces similar to the discourse which shapes the artist’s creation process. For more information, go to www.440gallery.com/artist_sepstein.htm.



About 440 Gallery: Park Slope’s only artist-run gallery, a jewel box space offering an alternative venue for nine Brooklyn artists. 440 Gallery seeks to present surprising, unexpected art to the community through exhibitions, talks, readings and events centered around direct contact with the artist. Open Thursdays and Fridays, 4-7 pm and Saturdays and Sundays, 12-6 pm, or by appointment.