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Monday, Oct. 19th 8pm. St. Mark's Poetry Project, 131 E. 10TH St.

Sueyeun Juliette Lee & Tracey McTague
October 19, 2009
8:00 pm
Monday

Sueyeun Juliette Lee grew up three miles from the CIA and currently lives in Philadelphia, PA where she edits her small chapbook series, Corollary Press, and is pursuing her PhD in English from Temple University. Previously, she received her MFA in poetry and certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Chain, 26, The Columbia Poetry Review, Effing, and MiPOesias’s Asian American collection. Her chapbooks include Trespass Slightly In (online with Coconut), Perfect Villagers (Octopus Books) and Mental Commitment Robots (Yo Yo Labs). As an editor, Sueyeun specifically seeks out authors whose aesthetics challenge the boundaries of intelligibility for suitably “raced” work, such as painter and African-American poet Christopher Stackhouse’s lyric meditations on the visual line in Slip (Corollary 2006) or Indian emigre Bhanu Kapil’s hybrid memoir of displacement, colonialism, and mental illness in Water Damage (Corollary 2007). Her book of poetry, That Gorgeous Feeling (Coconut), explores East/West discursive circulations through the notion of celebrity.

Tracey McTague lives at the geographic apex of Brooklyn on Battle Hill where she curates a reading series of the same name. She is also co-editor and consiglieri of Lungfull! Magazine. She is a writer and visual artist whose work includes a number of chapbooks. A longer book, about urban dog mind, will be published this fall by Overlook Press. Tracey is currently at work on a project called SUPER NATURAL. She vandalizes private property on a regular basis.
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Get all Flarfed Up!

Event: Ernest Hilbert and Sharon Mesmer
What: Listening Party
Start Time: Tomorrow, October 19 at 7:30pm
End Time: Tomorrow, October 19 at 9:00pm
Where: Tomorrow Night @ KGB!
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Patricia Carlin wanted to let you know that she'll be reading from her new collection Quantum Jitters on Sunday, October 25, @ 2:00 p.m. at the Bowery Poetry Club (sponsored by Four Way Books). I hope to see some of you there.


The Bowery Poetry Club,
308 Bowery, New York City
(Foot of 1st St., between Houston and Bleecker,
convenient to subways and buses: F Train to 2nd
Avenue, 6 Train to Bleecker)

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Join us tonight at 11th Street Bar for a special international reading by Robert Minhinnick, leading Welsh poet and winner of English-language Wales Book of the Year Award and UK's Forward Prize, Breyton Breytenbach, called "The greatest Afrikaner poet of his generation," by New Yorker, and Maya Pindyck. We are also celebrating the publication of Maya's first book, Friends Among Stones, winner of the Many Voice Project Award.

MONDAY, OCT 5, 2009 7:00 PM
Triptych Readings
(pairing established and emerging writers)

ROBERT MINHINNICK
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH
MAYA PINDYCK

11th Street Bar
510 East 11th Street (between Avenues A & B)
Closest subway stop is the L at 1st Ave.
other close stops include L at 3rd Ave and Union Square (N, R, W, Q, 4, 5, 6).

Admission is FREE.

Visit our website for poems, more about our readers,
and upcoming readings: www.triptychreading.com

Bio for the readers:

Robert Minhinnick's novel, Sea Holly (Seren) was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize (2008) in the UK. He has twice won the UK's Forward Prize for 'best individual poem' (1999, 2003). His latest book of poems is King Driftwood (Carcanet). He lives in Porthcawl, Wales, and is an advisor to the charity 'Sustainable Wales'.

An outspoken advocate for social justice, Breyten Breytenbach is a poet, novelist, memoirist, essayist, and visual artist. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited around the world. Born in South Africa, he emigrated to Paris in the late ‘60s and became deeply involved in the anti-Apartheid movement. In 1994 Breytenbach received the Alan Paton Award for Return to Paradise. He won the prestigious Hertzog Prize for Poetry for Papierblom in 1999, and again in 2008 for Die Windvanger (Windcatcher), for which he also received the University of Johannesburg Prize. Breytenbach is also the author of All One Horse, Mouroir, Notes from the Middle World, A Season in Paradise, Dog Heart, The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution, Lady One, and Voice Over: a nomadic conversation with Mahmoud Darwish, among many others. His most recent releases are Intimate Stranger, just out from Archipelago Books, and Notes from the Middle World, just released from Haymarket Books.

Maya Pindyck's book of poems, Friend Among Stones, won the Many Voices Project Award and was published by New Rivers Press. She is also the author of the chapbook, Locket, Master, recipient of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship (2006). Her work has been published in The Sycamore Review, Mississippi Review, Bellingham Review, and Ekleksographia, among others. Alongside writing poetry, Pindyck makes visual art and co-founded Project Voice, a growing compilation of personal abortion stories that aims to deflate the abortion stigma. She teaches in the New York City public school system.
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Amy Lawless & Patricia Carlin reading on Monday October 5, 2009 at KGB Bar at 7:30 pm.

Chin Up Hawk

Marsh Hawk Press Spring 2009 BOOK PARTY AND READING / Wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served

Marsh Hawk Press books often highlight the affinity of poetry and the visual arts. Each book is produced with particular care to visual style, often including reproductions of artwork alongside poems. Marsh Hawk Press also sponsors readings and exhibits, and hosts a web site with a rotating exhibition space, as well as several blogs focused on poetry and visual art. The press also offers a poetry prize judged by a poet of national stature.

WHEN: May 14, 2009 from 6:00 - 9:00 PM WHERE: Ceres Gallery, 547 W 27th St # 201 New York, NY 10001 Phone: 212-947-6100 WHY: To celebrate the publication of new work by Patricia Carlin, Stephen Paul Miller, Harriet Zinnes, and Michael Rerick, Winner of the 2008 Marsh Hawk Press Prize. HOW TO GET THERE Patricia Carlin Stephen Paul Harriet Zinnes Quantum Miller Light Light or Jitters Fort Dad the Curvature of the Earth Michael Rerick In Ways Impossible to Fold (Learn more about these titles here)

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Chin Music with Sarah Gambito, Mrigaa Sethi, and Solmaz Sharif

"The Best Damn Poetry North-East of the Gowanus Canal"

Host:	Chin Music -- The Pacific Standard Poetry Series
Type:	Music/Arts - Performance
Network:	Global

Date:	Thursday, May 14, 2009
Time:	7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:	Pacific Standard Bar
Street:	82 Fourth Avenue
City/Town:	Brooklyn, NY

Email:

chinmusicpoetry@gmail.com

Description

Please join us for the next evening of Chin Music. We're thrilled to feature three exciting poets: Sarah Gambito, Mrigaa Sethi, and Solmaz Sharif. For more details, visit our website: http://chinmusicpoetry.blogspot.com . Hope to see you then!