Manhattan & Brooklyn Get Up to Get Down

LaunchPad
721 Franklin Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
Curated by Niina Pollari, Steven Karl
Hosted by Niina Pollari

100,000 Poets for Change (http://www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange/) is a forum for GLOBAL readings for social change, happening on the same day (Sept. 24th). This format/forum is especially exciting because it simultaneously demonstrates the potential of both individual and international communities. Our Brooklyn edition of the reading will feature:

Tricia Taaca
Mark Bibbins
Brenda Ijima
Amy King
Ana Bozicevic
Hanna Andrews
David James Miller

Come to LaunchPad for the reading, hang out with us in the garden afterward, and support poetry as a forum for social change. And remember to check the website for all the global updates -- and see the updated information for our edition at http://www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange/?p=3618#comments.

The Equalizer

Please forward this email and attachment to interested readers. If you'd like to sign up for The Equalizer mailing list to receive sections as they're released throughout October 2010, please email theunrulyservant@gmail.com. Visit michaelschiavo.blogspot.com for more information, including updates & links to websites that will be hosting some or all of The Equalizer sections. Feel free to post this PDF to your blog or website. Please include the names of contributors in your post.


The Equalizer 1.1 available online via HTMLGiant and Maureen Thorson. Features: Summer Block, Jim Behrle, Macgregor Card, Mark Bibbins, Emily Anderson, Aaron Belz, Don Share, Cody Walker, Christopher Salerno, Amick Boone, Adam Clay, Buck Downs, Stephanie Anderson, Owen Barker, and CAConrad.


The Equalizer 1.2 available online via HTMLGiant and Maureen Thorson.Features Matt Hart’s “Write This Today While You Were.”


Oct. 7: The Equalizer 1.4 featuring a selection of John Gallaher's Guidebooks.

From Four Way Books

Hello lovers of poetry. Four Way Books author Monica Youn (Ignatz) has three upcoming readings in NYC. Fellow Four Way Books author Tom Healy (What the Right Hand Knows) and Monica will be reading together at Barnes and Noble (see details below). Please come out to support these wonderful poets! Summer Time is Poetry Time!

Monica Youn
St. Marks Bookstore Series
with Mark Bibbins
Thursday, June 3rd, at 7:30pm
Bar 82, 136 2nd Ave, between 9th Street and St. Mark's Place.

Monica Youn
Academy of American Poets
Poetry From the Rooftops
with Jonathan Weinert, George Witte
Tuesday, June 8th, at 6:30 p.m.
The Arsenal Building at Central Park
64th Street at 5th Ave

Tom Healy and Monica Youn
Barnes & Noble
with D H Melham
Wednesday, June 9th, at 7p.m.
2289 Broadway at 82nd Street

Coldfront Magazine- The Year in Review

coldfront magazine is pleased to announce the publication of Coldfront Yearbook 2009, a book of work published in 2009 -- it also announces the WINNERS of our 2009 Year in Review.

Copies of the book will be available at a discount during the AWP Conference in Denver, CO. They are already available here, and will soon be available at amazon.com.

It is the first in what will be an annual series, and features writing by:

Jason Bredle, Erin Belieu, Stephen Burt, Jackie Clark, John Deming, DJ Dolack, PJ Gallo, Matt Hart, Steven Karl, Rick Marlatt, Mike McDonough, Rachel Mennies, Jason Schneiderman, Matt Soucy, Bryan Stokes II, Mathias Svalina, Ken L. Walker, Melinda Wilson

about work by:

Samuel Amadon, Fred Astaire, Aase Berg, Mark Bibbins, Katie Cappello, Maxine Chernoff, Arda Collins, Mahmoud Darwish, Michael Dickman, Farrah Field, Ellie Ga, Louise Gluck, Geoffrey Hill, Janet Holmes, Fady Joudah, Ellen Kennedy, Noelle Kocot, Melissa Kwasny, Justin Marks, Shane McCrae, Wayne Miller, Keith Newton, Carl Phillips, Cole Porter, DA Powell, Angela Shaw, Laura Sims, GC Waldrep, Charles Wright

Friday Night Slugfest Redux Or Meet Ben, Christie Ann, & Mark

Winged Boot

I live in an X-ray
created years ago
by a boy named Ben Mirov.
If I peer through the tinfoil
and starlight that separates us
I can see him fletching
a piece of the gloaming
hopelessly failing calculus
plenty of broken tennis rackets
bridges of honey and Q-tips
gossamer diet of heartbreak and lamplight
dichotomy of flinch and thrush
tripping over his parachute
to deliver to himself
a map of 1998.

This is just one of the many brilliant poems in Mirov's chapbook. You can & should buy the chapbook here

Then think about seeing Ben read tomorrow night at Earshot:

EARSHOT!

Friday, February 12th @ 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Special Guest Host: Caitlin Cowan
$5 + one free drink

Featuring:

Ben Mirov (I Is to Vorticism)
Victoria Cho
Kimberly Faith Waid (New York University)
Eva Saavedra (Columbia University)
Christian Carmona (Sarah Lawrence College)

Rose Live Music is located at 345 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Havemeyer and Marcy. Visit their website for directions: http://roselivemusic.com.
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The wonderful and always magnetic Mark Bibbins is reading tomorrow with a bunch of good writers. Don't believe me?

I arrived early and wanting an instantaneous self

A little plastic man you sprinkle water on
and boom. Grows.

Wanting the same of horizon, season, lover

I clicked my heels to sparks,
became an anonymous alphabet maker.

Rain came in isosceles triangles and saturated
my profuse hatred for numbers.

I wanted a numberless fiend
to find me attractive and plant little letter babies in my brain.

We would eat fireflies and illuminate the many virtues
of tango and wedding cake.

We would import crepuscular and octagon into everyday
language.

Diaries would bloom edible spores of mold.
Grass would grey with thoughts of shoes.

Our letter children would proudly become hostile
soup-shapes and enter people willingly.

This poem is from the chapbook, idiot heart, by Christie Ann Reynolds who is reading with Bibbins tomorrow. Here's the full details:

Metro-Rhythm's second reading will feature:

Meghan O'Rourke
Mark Bibbins
Caitlin Dube
Christie Ann Reynolds
Eric Burg

and also
a ton of wine and PBR.

Ps. it is also my b day, so there will be an after party in my apartment like last time!

Please bring friends, and boy friends and girl friends, moms and dads and siblings are fine too.


The venue is right off the L train, a few blocks from the lorimer stop. Come down to brooklyn and nestle in our cozy wine shop for some poems, then expect a lot of dancing in my kitchen.

Hope to see you there

♥
Keegan and John


Directions:
http://www.blueangelwines.com/shop/

The Blog:
http://metrorhythm.blogspot.com
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Starts at 8, although rumor is you can see Mirov & then leave & still catch Bibbins & Christie Ann.

What's New Buttercup?

Nicolle Elizabeth has a review of last week's Triptych reading here.

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Ben Mirov interviews Mark Bibbins here.

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Tony Mancus has poems up all week over at No Tell Motel.

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HTML GIANT interviews Molly Gaudry here.

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I'm going to this on Thursday. You should too!

THE READING AT CHRYSTIE ST, Nov 19th, now no longer at Chrystie St.
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Four Faced Liar, 165 West 4th Street
THE READING AT CHRYSTIE IS BACK!!!!


The one rule that we haven't changed is having amazing and talented readers, and this month is no exception, as you will have the EXTREME pleasure of seeing and hearing Christie Ann Reynolds and Jeremy Schmall reading this month! The pleasure is all yours! We're so excited!

So come join us once again at a new place on a new day, and we'll all continue to call it the Reading at Chrystie St just to be eccentric and difficult. Deal?

Massive Week(end) for Poetry

The schedule for the full Welcome to Boog City Festival is now available online here. The readings on Saturday and Sunday at Unnameable Books is crazy including friends, Geoffrey Olsen (Sat.) and Veronica Wong(Sunday).
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Saturday, September 12, from 1pm-6pm (or some part thereof) to celebrate and commemorate the first nine years of Fence Magazine!

We're suggesting folks bring a yoga mat or something else to sit on out in the yard as we're expecting a big turn-out!

Also including a save the date--Friday, October 2 6:30pm--for another Garden Party (also at 381 Park Place, #1), featuring Hoa Nguyen (all the way up from Austin, TX) and Anselm Berrigan.
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There's also Mark Bibbins' book release party on Saturday night and Earshot on Friday night:
Children of EARSHOT! Your time has come.

Please join us, one and all, for our Fall '09 season kick-off event this Friday, September 11th, at a new starting time of 7:30 PM! We'll be at the fabulous Rose Live Music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and our line-up will chase away those post-summertime blues.

This time around, we're featuring poets JAMES BELFLOWER (author of the new collection Commuter from Instance Press) and CLAIRE DONATO (recent Brooklyn transplant and author of the chapbook Someone Else's Body). And our trio of MFA writers is the collective icing on the literary cake.

As always, you get all this, plus a free drink, for a measly five clams. No inflation here.

Your pal,
Nicole

P.S. Don't forget to follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/earshotnyc


EARSHOT!

Join us at Rose Live Music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for the first event of the Fall '09 Season!

Friday, September 11th at 7:30 PM
FALL '09 KICK-OFF EVENT!
@ Rose Live Music
Admission: $5 + FREE DRINK!

Hosted by Nicole Steinberg

Featuring:
James Belflower (Commuter)
Claire Donato (Someone Else's Body)
Deenah Vollmer (Columbia University)
Elizabeth Powers Howort (The New School)
David Grumblatt (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.
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The Brooklyn Book Festival is happening on Sunday. Full schedule here.

Is It Possible To Be At Two Brooklyn Libraries Simultaneously?

4th Annual African American - Asian American Poetry Reading

April 10, 7 pm

16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A

Cave Canem and The Asian American Writers' Workshop invite you to join program curators Tracy K. Smith and Tina Chang for an evening of exceptional poetry and music with Sapphire, Jessica Hagedorn, Wayne Koestenbaum, Brenda Shaughnessy and Thomas Sayers Ellis. Co-sponsored by Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics.

http://www.cavecanempoets.org/pages/pdfs/CC%20at%20AAWW.pdf

The Asian American Writer's Workshop

New York City

$5 suggested donation

EARSHOT! A Special National Poetry Month Event!

Friday, April 10th @ 8 PM

@ Rose Live Music

Hosted by Nicole Steinberg

$5 + ONE FREE DRINK!

Featuring:

Kenneth Hart (*Uh Oh Time*)

Noah Falck (*Measuring Tape for the Midwest*)

Thalia Aurinko-Mostow (The New School)

Sarah Feeley (Brooklyn College)

Jenna Hymes (Queens College)

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

EARSHOT is a bi-monthly reading series, dedicated to featuring new and emerging literary talent in the NYC area. Visit

http://www.earshotnyc.comfor more information or e-mail Nicole Steinberg at earshotnyc@gmail.com.

UPCOMING: The 17^th Annual Poets House Showcase
Saturday, April 4 – Saturday, April 11
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 4, 1:00 - 4:00PM

Catch an eyeful of what's happening in poetry today with this inspiring display of all the new poetry and poetry-related books published in the United States in 2008 and the first few months of 2009. From micro-press chapbooks to masterworks from major commercial publishers to DVDS and CDs, over 2,000 titles are gathered together for one week in the landmark Jefferson Market Branch Library.

@ The New York Public Library, Jefferson Market Branch, 425 Sixth Avenue (at West 10th Street). For library hours, call (212) 243-4334. Admission free. For more information, call Poets House at (212) 431-7920 or visit our web site at www.poetshouse.org

The Segue Reading Series Presents: JENA OSMAN & TAN LIN

Saturday, April 11, 2009 4PM SHARP

The Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, just north of Houston)

Jena Osman’s books include *An Essay in Asterisks* (Roof) and *The Character* (Beacon). Her book *The Network* is forthcoming from Essay Press. She co-edits the ChainLinks book series with Juliana Spahr and teaches in the graduate Creative Writing program at Temple University.

Tan Lin is a writer, artist, and critic. His most recent book is *Heath: Plagiarism/Outsource* from Zasterle, and his new work *Seven Controlled Vocabularies* is forthcoming from WesleyanUniversity Press. His visual and video work has been exhibited at the Yale Art Museum (New Haven), the Sophienholm (Copenhagen), and the Marianne Boesky Gallery (NYC).

$6 admission goes to support the readers

hosted by Kristen Gallagher & Tim Peterson

“Poets Gone Wilde” at the Brooklyn Library

Saturday, April 11 @ 2:30 – 4:00 PM

Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4^th Floor

200 Eastern Parkway

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/index.php?show=day&month=4&day=11&year=2009

Contemporary poets Mark Bibbins and Richard Howard read from their work – as well as the work of Oscar Wilde and Rimbaud – the in exhibition Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection, celebrating Bas’s lyrical romanticism and his literary influences.

Bushwick Reading Series - Installment #5

At the library as always y'all.

Host:	Readings at Bushwick Library
Type:	Music/Arts - Performance
Network:	Global

Date:	Saturday, April 11, 2009
Time:	3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:	Bushwick Library
Street:	Bushwick Avenue @ Seigel Street
City/Town:	Brooklyn, NY

Description

Our fifth reading is around the corner, and it's a multimedia affair featuring work by Chloe Bass, Paul Tunis, Nicolle Elizabeth, and Jordan Scott. Come to the library on Saturday the 11th from 3 to 5PM, and expect a random grab bag of video, audio, and other elements you may be unused to encountering in a library... as well as (more traditionally) poetry, prose, and FULL USE of the chalkboard. HOW CAN YOU AFFORD TO MISS IT? The answer is you cannot.

Also, check out http://www.bushwickreadingseries.org for audio of past readings -- and email us at bushwickbunker@gmail.com if you're interested in reading on future dates.

Suit, Button, Pop

Oregon-live has a breif interview with Zachary Schomburg here

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Matthew Yeager is NOT a fan of Ben Buttons.

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Mark Bibbins misses Slowdive & recaps the best of music in '08 here

I Can Only Eat Fruit In A Relaxed Apartment

I picked up a copy of Sampson Starkweather's City of Moths on Friday at the Earshot Reading. I ran into Niina there who has a pretty good summation of the reading here.
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I had to work on Saturday and then came home and went to bed early.
Yeah I'm exciting that way.
Sunday I ate brunch at Cafe Olea, worked on poems, hung out with deep disco (roommate) & then watched Rashomon.
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I'm going to the Poets & Writers reading/party tonight in DUMBO (see previous post for info).
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Wednesday, the ever affable Mark Bibbins is reading along with John Deming.

6:00PM INTERCULTURAL POETRY SERIES
Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street, NYC 10014 212-989-9319
Julia Istomina, host
Mark Bibbins; John Deming; Michael Quattrone

Mark Bibbins is the author of The Dance of No Hard Feelings,
forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press, and the Lambda Award-winning Sky
Lounge.

Michael Quattrone is the author of Rhinoceroses (New School Chapbook
Series, 2006), and a curator of the KGB Monday night poetry reading
series. His work has appeared online in Octopus, McSweeney's, and
Jacket, and in the anthologies The Best American Erotic Poems
(Scribner, 2008) and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel—Second Floor
(No Tell Books, 2007). He works with Visible Theatre and lives in
Sleepy Hollow, New York.

John Deming is Co-Editor in Chief of coldfrontmag.com. His poems have
appeared or are forthcoming in POOL, Parthenon West Review, Tarpaulin
Sky, Past Simple and elsewhere. A New Hampshire native, he currently
lives in New York City and teaches at Baruch College and L.I.M.
College. He holds degrees in journalism and poetry from the University
of New Hampshire and The New School.

Cover $7 (includes one house drink)

Hope to see you there!

How to get to the Cornelia Street Café by Subway

A, C, E, B, D, F & V TRAINS

Get on the south end of the train.
Take the train to the West 4th Street stop.
Exit at West 3rd Street.
Walk one block north to 4th Street.
Make an acute left onto Cornelia Street.
1 & 9 TRAINS

Take the train to the Sheridan Square stop.
Walk 21/2 blocks east on West 4th Street.
Make a right onto Cornelia Street.
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Issue 3 of Saltgrass is hot off the presses! If you read this blog then you know I've blogged about quite a few contributors in this issue so you can imagine my excitement.

Eric Baus, CAConrad, Jessica deCourcy Hinds, Johannes Goransson, Kate Greenstreet, Brenda Iijima, Kristi Maxwell, Sawako Nakayasu, Keith Newton, Joshua Poteat, Joy Rhoades, Ken Rumble, Matt Sumell, Chris Tonelli, and Mike Young.

It's just waiting for you to read it. The basics: $5.00 print journal.

You can order the issue online & read sample poems at www.saltgrassjournal.blogspot.com.

Please pass on the good word.

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The Winter Issue of diode is up and eager for your eyes

Dear All,

I just wanted to let you know that the Winter, 2009 issue of diode is now live.

Dilruba Ahmed
Aaron Anstett
Tamiko Beyer
Ash Bowen
Charlie Clark
Arpine Konyalian Grenier
Angela Hibbs
Dennis Hinrichsen
dawn lonsinger
Bobbi Lurie
Ron Mohring
George Moore
Deborah Poe
Patrick Rosal
Michael Salcman
Maureen Seaton
Floarea Ţuţuianu, trans. Adam J. Sorkin and Irma Giannetti
Jakob VanLammeren

Gots Love on Barrow Street

Taking a look at the contributors (including myself) in the latest ish of Barrow Street (10th Anniversary Issue) I couldn't help but think of the few degrees of separation such as Jackson Taylor who was my immediate boss while working at The New School and Teachers & Writers' Collaborative. Myself, Jared, and Adam, wrote a grant loosely based on the pedagogy of Marie Ponsot, then there's David Lehman who was my thesis adviser, Peter Moore, a former NS classmate of mine, Evan Glasson who came to my apartment a couple years back to look at a room for rent (he's rumored to have a nice jump shot too), the lovely Sharon Mesmer who I've known for a little while now, Mark Bibbins (who's classes and parties are the stuff of legends) and lastly, LIT co-hort, Nicole Steinberg. I think this is the third journal that Nicole and I have appeared in together... who's stalking who? Or maybe we both just have exquisite taste... nah words stalking words sounds much more sexy. Did I just use the word "sexy?" Yeah Saturday irony rules!

New online journal fa ya ears & eyes

fou magazine

LIT launch party wrap- up and poem accepted

The LIT launch party was a good time. The funny thing about NS events is that the alcohol seems to either last forever or vanish in a blink- this party was one of them vanishing acts. First all the Brooklyn Lagers disappeared then all the cups and at one point I noticed a few people pouring white wine into empty soda cans. Wow! That's dedication or boredom at its best. Nonetheless it was good to catch Sampson Starkweather read and see so many people I don't know with copies of LIT in their hands. Have I told you how good ish 13 is going to be?

I saw Matthew Yeager (who I hadn't seen in ages) Malachi Black, Mark Bibbins, and met Peter Bogart Johnson's (current editor of LIT along with Nicole Steinberg, a good poet, and a very funny guy) wife, and then left the party with poets Daniel Meagers and Steve Roberts for a few more drinks. Both Steve and myself had work early the next morning so it ended up being a pleasant, yet early evening... sorry Dan!

Friday I got an acceptance email from Knock Journal (out of Seattle) that they will be publishing my "Birthday Poem" in their November issue- yeah for that! At sometime today I have to figure out where else I've submitted that poem so I can retract it- definitely my least favorite task- let's just say my submission spread sheet is a half-assed infrequently updated thing of a disaster!

Mark Bibbins and Erin Belieu Reading (4/15)

Mark Bibbins has this to say:

I'm reading with Erin Belieu this Sunday (4/15) at Zinc Bar, 90 W. Houston, 7:00. Erin is also reading at KGB on Monday (with Dara Wier) and that will be more crowded. Erin’s a killer poet, and she almost never