Some Upcoming Events

I'm reading with tons of awesome people on Feb. 5th for Polestar's The White Album. See flyer in previous post.

On March 3rd I'm chairing a panel at AWP on chapbooks with awesome writers/publishers, Angela Veronica Wong, Mathias Svalina, Farrah Field and Sommer Browning.AWP 2012 | Saturday, March 3, 3:00 PM to 4:15 PM | The Chapbook Beyond Cultural Artifact: Contemporary Poetry and the Economics and Vitality of Chapbook Publishing | Honore Ballroom, Palmer House Hilton | Chicago, IL

I'm guest-editing the next chapbook for Immaculate Disciples Press which will be a double collaborative effort by Julia Cohen & Mathias Svalina. Seriously, it's so damn good! Cover art my Joseph Lappie- HOT DAMN! Come find us at Table Y.

Also, at AWP there will be copies of the collab chapbook by Veronica Wong & myself over at the Lame House table. Veronica's full-length from Coconut will also be for sale (I think).

Shortly, before AWP there will be a new edition of Sink Review. We have a new assistant poetry editor, Stephanie Willis. New things ahead for Sink!

Shortly after AWP, Veronica & I, along with Jackie Clark, B.C. Edwards and Amy Lawless will be reading on March 31st for an off-site reading in conjunction with the CUNY Chapbook Festival- location of the reading TBA.

I believe Veronica, Carter & I will read in Philly in either April or May.
Veronica and I will also read in DC in May. Details forthcoming.

AWP Action

I'll be moderating a panel at AWP along with Angela Veronica Wong, Mathias Svalina, Farrah Field and Sommer Browning. Awesome collection of poets/publishers/book sellers.
Stop by and say hi.

The Chapbook Beyond Cultural Artifact: Contemporary Poetry
and the Economics and Vitality of Chapbook Publishing
Scheduled Day: Saturday, March 3
Scheduled Time: 3:00 PM to 4:15 PM
Scheduled Room and Hotel: Honore Ballroom, Palmer House Hilton

Review & Popsickle 2011

I have a review of Sommer Browning's book here.

Info on this year's Popsickle here. It looks great! Sadly, Erika & I are already otherwise committed & Christie Ann is away so Stain of Poetry will have to miss it, but you shouldn't!

Also, been digging the Wave Books photo tumblr.

Around the web

Here's a nice interview with Sommer Browning.

How about some reading? OnandOnScreen and Evening Will Come.

The Poetry Project Will Never Be The Same

Sommer Browning and Mathias Svalina are reading together at the Poetry Project tomorrow night at 10pm.

Sommer Browning‘s first book of poems, Either Way I’m Celebrating, came out in February 2011 with Birds, LLC. She draws cartoons, writes poems, teaches bookmaking and, with Julia Cohen, curates The Bad Shadow Affair reading series in Denver, Colorado. Visit her at AsthmaChronicles.com.

Mathias Svalina is the author of one collection of poems, Destruction Myth (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2009), five chapbooks & five collaborative chapbooks, four of them written with Julia Cohen. He also has a hybrid-novella forthcoming, I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur (Mud Luscious Press, 2011). With Zachary Schomburg he co-edits the online poetry journal Octopus Magazine & the small press Octopus Books. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

Get Hanked for the both of us, will you?

Abraham Smith is reading tonight. In like 2.5 hours. I just found out about. Most people I know, still don't know about it. I wonder why the invite came so late. So few people can suddenly attend something with 2.5 hours notice. Sucks. Maybe you're not busy. Maybe you can go? He's reading Friday at Earshot too (another reading I won't be able to attend 'cause I'm going to catch up with Mathias & hopefully Sommer before they set the roof of the Poetry Project on fire with their awesomeness!)

Thursday, March 10 · 7:30pm - 10:30pm
Unnameable Books
600 Vanderbilt Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11238

Abraham Smith will be reading from his new book, HANK (Action Books). Jennifer L. Knox will be reading from her new book, THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN DRIVEWAY (Bloof Books). It will be an evening full of that new book smell, and top shelf tequila.

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EARSHOT!

Join us at Rose Live Music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!

Friday, March 11 at 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Admission: $5 + FREE DRINK!

Guest Host: Peter Bogart Johnson

Featuring:
Traci Brimhall (author of Rookery)
Abraham Smith (author of Hank)
Amy Gall (The New School)
Nicole Dennis (Sarah Lawrence College)
Amy Meng (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.

Either Way I'm Celebrating

The awesomeness that is Sommer Brownings' poetry & comics all in one book! Celebration for sure. Check the book here, an interview here, and more poems here.

Here & There

I have a poem up on Poets for Living Water, you can read it here.

3:AM Magazine has an interview with Aase Berg here.

Birds, LLC are taking pre-orders for two new books:
Either Way I'm Celebrating by Sommer Browning
King of the Fucking Sea by Dan Boehl.

Corollary Press is taking preorders for Douglas Kearney's new chapbook released as a 12" including 7 12x12 broadsides.

Your Friday. Your Saturday.

Stain of Poetry

September 24, Friday ~ Deborah Ager, Eric Amling, Bill Freind, Laura Hinton, Janet Holmes & Debrah Morkun!

7 PM on September 24 @ Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Deborah Ager‘s first book, Midnight Voices, was published in 2009.
Her poems appear in Best New Poets 2006, The Bloomsbury Review, New England Review, The Georgia Review, Quarterly West and New South. She’s received fellowships from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and she received a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She is founding editor of 32 Poems Magazine. Many poems first appearing in 32 Poems have been honored in the Best American Poetry and Best New Poets anthologies and on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily.

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Eric Amling is the author of several chapbooks including TWIN VAPOR (Human Hair & Co.), SPLIT LEVEL IGLOO (Human Hair & Co.), and the most recent NINE LIVE TWO-HEADED ANIMALS (Greying Ghost Press). His illustrations and books can be found at www.humanhairandco.org

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Bill Freind is the author of American Field Couches (BlazeVox, 2008) and An Anthology (housepress, 2000); he is also editing a collection of essays on Araki Yasusada that is forthcoming from Shearsman. He lives near an abandoned golf course in South Jersey.

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Laura Hinton is the author of a poetry book, Sisyphus My Love (To Record a Dream in a Bathtub) (BlazeVox), and a critical book, The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911 (SUNY Press). She is also the co-editor of We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Women’s Writing and Performance Poetics (University of Alabama Press). She has edited three special sections for the online journal How2, including the current feature, “Reading Carla Harryman.” She is now at work (co-editor) of a special issue in Postmodern Culture on poet’s theater, as well as a book on women’s hybrid poetry and the arts. She is a Professor of English at the City College of New York. In New York City she edits a chapbook series, Mermaid Tenement Press, and comments on feminism and the hybrid arts at her blog site “Chant de la Sirene” (www.chantdelasirene.com).

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Janet Holmes is author of five books of poetry, most recently The ms of my kin (Shearsman) and F2F (U of Notre Dame Pr). She is also director and editor of Ahsahta Press, a 35-year-old all-poetry press based at Boise State University, and professor of English there in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

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Debrah Morkun lives in Philadelphia, where she is the founding member of The New Philadelphia Poets, a group committed to expanding the spaces for poetry in Philadelphia. Her first full-length book, Projection Machine, was released by BlazeVox Books April 2010. View some of her work at www.debrahmorkun.com.

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Goodbye Blue Monday

1087 Broadway
(corner of Dodworth St)
Brooklyn, NY 11221-3013 (718) 453-6343

J M Z trains to Myrtle Ave
or J train to Kosciusko St

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Hosted by Amy King, Ana Božičević et al

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Multifarious Array
Poetry and Comedy Night this Saturday, 9/25
Hello!

Please join us this Saturday at 7 p.m. for a Poetry and Comedy night. It is going to be funny!

Poets and comedians will include:

Evan Fleischer
Sommer Browning
Elisa Gabbert
Gabby Dunn
Mark Leidner
Dan Magers

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Evan Fleischer is a writer and a comedian. His work has appeared in McSweeney's and been praised by The Guardian and the head writer of the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (the first one) as "intelligent, admirable, and very funny" and "very funny and clever." He has a beard.


Sommer Browning writes poems, draws comics and tells jokes. Her first book of poems is coming out in 2011 with Birds, LLC. Visit her at www.asthmachronicles.com.


Elisa Gabbert is the poetry editor of Absent and the author of The French Exit (Birds, LLC) and Thanks for Sending the Engine (Kitchen Press). Recent poems can be found in Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, Puerto del Sol, The Rumpus, Salt Hill, and Sentence. She currently lives in Boston, works at a software startup, and blogs at The French Exit.


Gaby Dunn began her comedy career at Emerson College in Boston as a writer and performer in the sketch comedy troupe, Chocolate Cake City. As a stand-up comedian, she has performed at Boston's Comedy Studio, at Comix and the People's Improv Theater in NYC and at the show she co-produces and co-hosts, Mish Mosh. (Every second Thursday of the month, 8 pm, Birch Coffee, be there!) She is also a writer whose work has appeared in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Boston Globe, and on Comedy Central's thedailyshow.com and colbertnation.com, all of which she interned for in college. She is currently an entertainment media blogger for AOL TV Squad and Moviefone. She loves the Internet so much, she should just marry it.


Mark Leidner is the author of several chapbooks. Recent poems can be found in Skein and Lamination Colony. He also co-edits DUETS, an international chapbook series. He lives and tweets in western Massachusetts.


Dan Magers graduated from The New School’s MFA program and works on engineering books for a publishing company. He is co-founder and co-editor of Sink Review (sinkreview.org), an online poetry magazine, as well as a chapbook press called Immaculate Disciples Press. He has poems published in Sixth Finch, Eleven Eleven, the tiny, and forthcoming in Forklift, Ohio, among other places. A regular contributor of books reviews at New Pages (newpages.com), he currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Mutifarious Array Fall Schedule

Sommer Browning, the founder & curator of Multifarious Array has moved to Denver but have no fear as Dottie Lasky has stepped up to keep the series alive. The readings take place at Pete's Candy Store. The schedule is below. I think the October 1st reading looks nice:)

9/17-Book release party for Kendra Grant Malone’s Everything is Quiet (Scrambler Books). Featuring Kendra Grant Malone, Matthew Savoca, Leigh Stein

Matthew Savoca (born USA 1982) has lived in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Rome, Italy, as well as a lot of other places for short periods of time. long love poem with descriptive title is his first book of poetry. Find more information at matthewsavoca.com.

Leigh Stein is the author of the chapbooks How to Mend a Broken Heart with Vengeance (Dancing Girl Press), Least Inhabited Island II (h-ngm-n Combatives), and Summer in Paris (Mondo Bummer). Other work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Bat City Review, No Tell Motel, Washington Square, and h-ngm-n, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, where she teaches drama to children.

kendra grant malone lives with her cat, delores grant malone. this is her first book of poetry. for more information about her work and her cat, visit kendralovely.blogspot.com.


9/25-Comedy and Poetry night: Evan Fleischer, Sommer Browning, Elisa Gabbert, Gabby Dunn, Mark Leidner, Dan Magers

Evan Fleischer is a writer and a comedian. His work has appeared in McSweeney's and been praised by The Guardian and the head writer of the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (the first one) as "intelligent, admirable, and very funny" and "very funny and clever." He has a beard.

Sommer Browning writes poems, draws comics and tells jokes. Her first book of poems is coming out in 2011 with Birds, LLC. Visit her at www.asthmachronicles.com.

Elisa Gabbert is the poetry editor of Absent and the author of The French Exit (Birds, LLC) and Thanks for Sending the Engine (Kitchen Press). Recent poems can be found in Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, Puerto del Sol, The Rumpus, Salt Hill, and Sentence. She currently lives in Boston, works at a software startup, and blogs at The French Exit.

Gaby Dunn began her comedy career at Emerson College in Boston as a writer and performer in the sketch comedy troupe, Chocolate Cake City. As a stand-up comedian, she has performed at Boston's Comedy Studio, at Comix and the People's Improv Theater in NYC and at the show she co-produces and co-hosts, Mish Mosh. (Every second Thursday of the month, 8 pm, Birch Coffee, be there!) She is also a writer whose work has appeared in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Boston Globe, and on Comedy Central's thedailyshow.com and colbertnation.com, all of which she interned for in college. She is currently an entertainment media blogger for AOL TV Squad and Moviefone. She loves the Internet so much, she should just marry it.

Mark Leidner is the author of several chapbooks. Recent poems can be found in Skein and Lamination Colony. He also co-edits DUETS, an international chapbook series. He lives and tweets in western Massachusetts.

Dan Magers graduated from The New School’s MFA program and works on engineering books for a publishing company. He is co-founder and co-editor of Sink Review (sinkreview.org), an online poetry magazine, as well as a chapbook press called Immaculate Disciples Press. He has poems published in Sixth Finch, Eleven Eleven, the tiny, and forthcoming in Forklift, Ohio, among other places. A regular contributor of books reviews at New Pages (newpages.com), he currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.


10/1-Marisa Crawford, Buck Downs, Steven Karl

Marisa Crawford is the author of The Haunted House from the feminist poetry press Switchback Books. She lives in Brooklyn where she works as a copywriter, is an editor of Small Desk Press, and volunteers as a writing mentor with Girls Write Now. Her writing has recently appeared in Shampoo and Action, Yes, and on the fashion blog Ironing Board Collective.

Buck Downs lives in Washington DC, where he works as a content coach and writer. His books include Marijuana Soft Drink (Edge Books), and his CD Pontiac Fever was released by Narrow House Recordings in 2006.

Steven Karl is the author of State(s) of Flux (Peptic Robot Press, 2009) which is a collaborative chapbook with Joseph Lappie and (Ir)Rational Animals (Flying Guillotine Press, 2010). He has e-chaps forthcoming from Scantily Clad Press and H_ngm_n. In one way or another he is involved with Borough Writing Workshops, Coldfront Magazine, Sink Review, and Stain of Poetry. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and blogs at stevenkarl.blogspot.com


10/15-Corina Copp, Emily Pettit, Performances by Jess Barbagallo and company

CORINA COPP is a writer living in Brooklyn. Recent work has appeared in Wild Orchids, Supermachine, Brooklyn Rail, Wolf in a Field, ON Contemporary Practice, and Aufgabe. Her play, WALTZ, was produced at the East 13th Street Theater this July. Also author of performance texts Office Killer (NYCCT/Voorhees 2008) and A Week of Kindness (Tiny Theater Festival, Ontological 2007); as well as chapbooks Carpeted (Faux Press 2004), Play Air (Belladonna* 2005) and Sometimes Inspired by Marguerite (Open 24 Hours 2003). A new chapbook is forthcoming from MinutesBOOKS. She currently serves as the current editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter (www.poetryproject.org), and is co-curator and host of The Twenty-Five Cent Opera of San Francisco.

Emily Pettit is the author of two chapbooks HOW (Octopus Books) and WHAT HAPPENED TO LIMBO (Pilot Books). She is an editor for notnostrums (notnostrums.com) and Factory Hollow Press. As well as assistant editor at jubilat. Her first full-length book, GOAT IN THE SNOW is forthcoming from Birds LLC.


10/29-No, Dear new issue launch reading. Issue 6 features work by Joseph
Calavenna, Chris Caldemeyer, Anelise Chen, Katie Clemente, T. M. De
Vos, Jen Hyde, Curtis Jensen, Lauren Nixon, Eric Pitra, Andrew
Reynolds, Tyler Weston, and Jared White.

11/12-Jane Sprague, Rachel Zolf

Jane Sprague is the author of the books The Port of Los Angeles (Chax Press, 2009) and, with Tina Darragh and Diane Ward, The *Belladonna Elders Series 8 (*Belladonna, 2009). She is also author of the chapbooks Apache Roadkill (Dusie / Weekend Press, 2009), Sacking the Henwife (Dusie, 2007), Entropic Liberties (with Jonathan Skinner; Dusie, 2006), fuck your pastoral (Subpoetics, 2005) and The Port of Los Angeles (Subpoetics, 2004) among others. Her poems, essays, reviews and interviews with poets and editors have been published in numerous print and online magazines including Columbia Poetry Review, Rain Taxi, How2, Jacket, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, ecopoetics, Dandelion, Tinfish, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Tarpaulin Sky , Kiosk, P-Queue, Hot Whiskey and others. Since 2004 she has edited and published the imprint Palm Press, www.palmpress.org, an independent press committed to making possible works which interrogate the boundaries of contemporary politics, poetry, pedagogy and poetics. She regularly reads from her work, recent readings include The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church (NYC), The Poetry Center at CSUSF (San Francisco), and Colorado State University at Boulder (Boulder, CO), among others. Additionally, she has curated several reading series in the states of New York and California and the conference “Small Press Culture Workers” (Ithaca, NY, 2004). Her current writing and editorial projects include My Appalachia, a poetry and prose work that explores geography, genocide and generational poverty in upstate New York, where she is from, in addition to the collection Imaginary Syllabi which gathers documents by contemporary writers who teach in modes of radical, utopian, fabulist and generative student-centered pedagogies (Palm Press, 2010). She is an associate faculty member of Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking and its Language and Thinking Workshop. She teaches writing at California State University, Long Beach in Long Beach, CA where she lives on an island with her family.

Rachel Zolf’s poetic practice explores interrelated materialist questions concerning memory, history, knowledge, subjectivity and the conceptual limits of language and meaning. She is particularly interested in how ethics founders on the shoals of the political. Her fourth full-length book, Neighbour Procedure, was released by Coach House Books in 2010. Previous collections include Human Resources (Coach House), which won the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, Masque (The Mercury Press), Shoot & Weep (Nomados), from Human Resources (Belladonna books) and Her absence, this wanderer (BuschekBooks). Zolf’s work has been translated into French, Spanish and Portuguese and has appeared in anthologies such as Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics (Coach House) and a forthcoming anthology of conceptual writing from Les Figues Press. She was the founding poetry editor for The Walrus magazine and has worked as a documentary film producer and communications consultant. She has received a Chalmers Arts Fellowship and multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. She lives in Brooklyn.


12/3-Tanya Larkin, Amy Lemmon, Farrah Field

Farrah Field’s first book of poems, Rising, won Four Way Books’ 2007 Levis Prize. Her poems have appeared in many publications including Harp & Altar, We Are So Happy to Know Something, Ploughshares, Lit, and are forthcoming in Fou and Mantis. She co-hosts a reading series called Yardmeter Editions and blogs at adultish.blogspot.com. Her second book of poetry is forthcoming in 2012.

Tanya Larkin teaches Creative Writing and English at the New England Institute of Art in Brookline, MA. Her poems have most recently appeared in Satellite Telephone. She is currently at work on a novel.

Amy Lemmon is the author of the poetry collections Fine Motor (Sow’s Ear Poetry Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2009). Her poems and essays have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Barrow Street, Court Green, The Journal, Marginalia, and many other magazines and anthologies. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has contributed articles to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry. She also co-authored the chapbook ABBA: The Poems (Coconut Books, 2010) with Denise Duhamel, and Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation with Denise Duhamel is forthcoming in 2010 from Slapering Hol Press. Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is the recipient of a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship and scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, West Chester Poetry Conference, and Antioch Writers’ Workshop. Awards include the Elliston Poetry Prize, the Ruth Cable Poetry Prize, and the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize. She is Poetry Editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org. An Associate Professor in the English and Speech Department at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, she lives in Astoria, Queens, with her two children.


12/17-Rachel Levitsky, Jennifer Kronovet, Lynn Behrendt

Jennifer Kronovet is the author of the poetry collection Awayward (BOA Editions, 2009), which was selected by Jean Valentine for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in the Colorado Review, Fence, Open City, Ploughshares, A Public Space, and elsewhere. She is currently a Writer-in-Residence at Washington University in St. Louis.

Rachel Levitsky’s first full-length volume, Under the Sun was published by Futurepoem books in 2003. She is the author of five chapbooks of poetry, Dearly (a+bend, 1999), Dearly 356, Cartographies of Error (Leroy, 1999), The Adventures of Yaya and Grace (PotesPoets, 1999) and 2(1×1)Portraits (Baksun, 1998). Levitsky writes poetry plays, three of which (one with Camille Roy) have been performed in New York and San Francisco. Her work is published in magazines such as The Recluse, Sentence, Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, Global City, The Hat, Skanky Possum, Lungfull! and the anthologies, Boog City (vol. I & II), Bowery Women, and 19 Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology. Recently her work was translated into Icelandic for the anthology 131.839 Slög Med Bilum by Eiríkur Örn Nordahl and into French for the Paris journal Action poetique. Online poetry and critical essays can be found on such sites as Narrativity, Duration Press, How2, Web Conjunctions, and is forthcoming in DWB, in the 2010 issue of the Dutch language magazine, “The Empire of Women,” which she is also guest-editing with Jan Lauwereyns. She has taught poetry workshops at Woodland Pattern, Naropa University, Poets House, the Poetry Project and the Pratt Institute. She is the founder and co-director of Belladonna*, an event and publication series of feminist avant-garde poetics. In 2008 she was the poet from the United States invited to attend The Tokyo Poetry Festival and throughout 2008-2009 she served as the CPCW Fellow in Poetics & Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. She currently teaches college courses in two prisons in New York State.

Some of This & Some of That

Flying Guillotine editors, Tony & Sommer, have new poems up at Fawlt Magazine & Typo.

There's an interview with Mathias Svalina here.

Ben Mirov's book which was one of my summer reads picks has been reviewed here, here, & here.

On Display

Veronica sent me this photo which features both of our chapbooks on display at The Poet House.

Fun stuff.

For The NYC/BK Kids

Tonight is Sommer Browning's last night curating the wonderful reading series at Pete's Candy Store. Come hear dope poets & keep Sommer company. She won't object if you buy her a whiskey either.

An Extra Special Multifarious Array
Friday, May 28, 2010
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, NY

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Aaron Tieger, Jeni Olin, Georgia Luna & Dan Hoy are reading poems. Wonderful poems. I'm so happy these amazing poets are reading Friday for many reasons, most especially because this is the very last Multifarious Array I will host at Pete's. I have hosted the Multifarious Array for four years. I will probably cry; this will still be fun. Right now, I feel like saying: I love everyone.

Friday Face-off, BK style

Sommer Browning and Leigh Stein host POETS AND PUPPETS II: RESURRECTION

with

Kathleen Rooney, Sasha Fletcher, Jason Zuzga, Jason Koo, Martin Rock, and Noah Eli Gordon

Watch these poets get inside tiny bodies.

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Pete's Candy Store Friday, May 21, 2010 7:00pm - 9:00pm
709 Lorimer Street,Brooklyn, NY
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dear heroes of may! come see our other heroes, also poets, ride into spring:

Melissa Buzzeo, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Todd Colby, Christie Ann Reynolds, Jared Stanley & Rachel Zolf!

Melissa Buzzeo teaches at St. John’s University, and has taught at Brown, Pratt, and The University of Iowa. She is the author of two perfect bound books (What Began Us, 2007 and Face, 2009), and three chapbooks. In addition, her work has been translated into both French and Catalan. From NY originally, she holds degrees from both Cornell University and The University of Iowa’s Writing Workshop.

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Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and Sorcery (Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv). His poems can be found in such places as Crowd, VeRT, Volt, Spork, Cue, Slope, Aught, Fence, Swerve, Dirt, Ditch, Zeek and Sweet, as well as some other places with more than one syllable such as New American Writing and foam:e. He teaches in the graduate writing program at California College of the Arts, where he edits the journal Eleven Eleven.

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Todd Colby is the author of Tremble & Shine and Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Work, both from Soft Skull Press, and the editor of Heights of the Marvelous: A New York Anthology (St. Martins Press). He has appeared in numerous poetry anthologies, including Short Fuse: A World Anthology of Poetry, The Portable Boog Reader, Word Up: Spoken Word Poetry in Print, Verses That Hurt, Revival: Spoken Word from Lollapalooza, and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café. Colby has performed his poetry on PBS, MTV, and Canada’s Much Music Network. He has produced many collaborative books and paintings with the artist David Lantow and was the lyricist and vocalist for the now-legendary New York band Drunken Boat.

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Christie Ann Reynolds‘ manuscript, idiot heart was the 2009 winner of The New School Chapbook Competition. She has an MFA in Poetry, a BA in English and an MsEd in Secondary Education. Christie Ann is a member of The Poetry Brothel and her work can be found or is forthcoming in BlazeVox, My Name is Mud, Robot Melon, Sub-Lit, Critiphoria, and others. A short collection is forthcoming from Supermachine this
summer.

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Jared Stanley is the author of Book Made of Forest (Salt 2009) and the chapbooks I Something Scott Inguito You, The Outer Bay, and In Fortune. With Lauren Levin and Catherine Meng, he edits Mrs. Maybe. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently lives in the San Joaquin Valley of California.

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Rachel Zolf‘s fourth full-length book, Neighbour Procedure, was recently released by Coach House Books. Previous collections include Human Resources (Coach House), which won the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, Masque (The Mercury Press), Shoot & Weep (Nomados), from Human Resources (Belladonna books) and Her absence, this wanderer (BuschekBooks). Zolf’s work has appeared in journals throughout North America and in anthologies such as Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics (Coach House) and a forthcoming anthology of conceptual writing from Les Figues Press. She was the founding poetry editor for The Walrus magazine and has edited several books of poetry. Zolf lives in New York.

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Goodbye Blue Monday

1087 Broadway
(corner of Dodworth St)
Brooklyn, NY 11221-3013 (718) 453-6343

J M Z trains to Myrtle Ave
or J train to Kosciusko St

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Hosted by Amy King and Ana Božičević

Busy Buzz

The last few days have been quite busy for me. I attended the Chapbook festival at CUNY on both Monday & Tuesday (coming & going throughout the day) & then attended a panel/conversation on alternative education last night.

The chapbook festival was good. I heard someone refer to it as a "low-key" AWP. Rather accurate as there was a book-fair- but this one was much much smaller & more manageable & there were readings. I don't think there were any off-site readings or any drunkeness or "hooking-up" so that is prolly the biggest difference between the two. People didn't come to the chapbook looking crazed or with a desire to live some cheesy Vegas B-film life.

That being said, I think the festival being on Monday & Tuesday really limited or fractured the attendance, which isn't to imply that it was poorly attended- I was quite impressed on both days at the amount of the people, but if it had been on the weekend the room would have been packed which would make perusing chapbooks a pain, but reading attendance little better, as the audience for the readings tended to be small. But then again, who can attend a reading on a Tuesday afternoon at 2, which is when I read. Luckily there were about 10-15 people in the room & I thank everyone who came out, who said nice things about my chapbook, &/or the super-new poem I read. It's always a pleasure to read with label mate, Veronica, & to spend time with Tony (the other half of Flying Guillotine Press who recently moved to DC).

Here's what I left the festival with:

Bowling by Sommer Browning and Brandon Shimoda (Greying Ghost Press)
Poems by Dan Boehl (Greying Ghost Press)
Agriculture Reader
Unrequited Sonnets: bird to a feather by Nate Pritts
Descriptive Sketches by Nate Pritts (printed by J. Johnson in London)
Last Ride by Abraham Smith (Forklift, Ink.)
Is This January by Jai Arun Ravine (Corollary Press)
Lake M by Brandon Shimoda (Corollary Press)

Overall, the festival was a great time & you should look out for it next year! I'll write about the alternative education panel later.

Friday Face-off/Saturday Best

Friday, April 23, 2010
7:00pm - 9:50pm
Shelton Walsmith's studio, 267 Douglass Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn

Yardmeter 9 presents:
visual art by Renata Marallo,
comics and a musical performance
by Sommer Browning,
poetry readings by Paige Taggart
and Dorothea Lasky,
and a poetic event
by Kirsten Kaschock.
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SUPERMACHINE
geoffrey nutter, ben mirov, christie ann reynolds, lonely christopher

outpost lounge

friday april 23, 1014 fulton st. @ 8 pm
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THE ENCLAVE XXIX

FEATURING: CHRISTEN CLIFFORD, MOLLY GAUDRY & LEE YEW LEONG

Saturday, April 24th @ 4 PM
Cake Shop
152 Ludlow Street
New York City
Free
For info: www.myspace.com/enclavianmatter

CHRISTEN CLIFFORD is a writer and performer in New York. Her
nonfiction has appeared in Salon, Nerve, Huffington Post, Identity
Theory, Time Out New York Kids and Smith Magazine's Memoirville.
Flavorwire called her comic My Home Birth "hilarious and uncensored."
She recently served as an interpreter in Tino Seghal's This Progress
at The Guggenheim. She has been a mainstage storyteller at The Moth
and her solo performance has been shown at PS 122, Galapagos, and 45
Bleecker as well as the Oni Gallery and Grace Exhibition Space as part
of The Armory Show/SITE 2010. She can currently be seen as a performer
in Alix Pearlstein's video art Finale and Talent at On Stellar Rays.
She is a recipient of a NYFA for nonfiction, has an MFA from the New
School Writing Program, and is the proud mother of Felix and Vera.
Website: www.christenclifford.com

MOLLY GAUDRY is the author of the verse novel, We Take Me Apart (Mud
Luscious Press, 2009), and the editor of Tell: An Anthology of
Expository Narrative (Flatmancrooked, 2010). She edits Willows Wept
Press and Willows Wept Review, is a co-founding editor of Twelve
Stories, and is an associate editor for Keyhole Magazine. She writes
occasional book reviews for East&West Magazine, and she's currently
tweeting a chapter of her new verse novel, FLORA THE WHORE, every few
days on Twitter.
Website: www.mollygaudry.blogspot.com

A poet and fiction writer, LEE YEW LEONG has written for The New York
Times and DIAGRAM, among other publications. His translation into
English of Nobita, the latest collection of poems by Jing Siang
Hai--at 33, he is the most acclaimed Taiwanese poet of his
generation--is expected to be completed by the middle of the year.
Website: http://hokusai.sg

THE ENCLAVE Reading Series has organized monthly readings in downtown
Manhattan since 2006. The series features established and emerging
authors of both national and international recognition who create
innovative and ambitious work.

Music, Readings, Oh My Oh My My Eye

I'm flattered to say that my review of Yo La Tengo's latest album was chosen by GSL as one of the best for 2009. Keep the amps plugged in & turned up loud. A link to the review can be found on the right side of this blog.

I'm thrilled to say that I looked over proofs for my forthcoming chap, (Ir)Rational Animals today & what's more thrilling is that the email subject was Crazy Ass Animals.

I'll be away from Thursday until late Sunday with limited (if any) internet so this will be my last post until sometime next week.

Naturally in my absence from NYC there's a ton of awesomeness oozing from the city's pores.

How about Sommer Browning & a guitar?
The first is the mind-bendingly sustaining manna that is The Guitarmy (formerly Sportsman's Paradise).
Five guitars. One drumming maniac. Zero concern for personal well-being.

Thursday, January 7th, 11pm at Otto's Shrunken Head
http://www.ottosshrunkenhead.com/index.html

Address: 538 East 14th Street between Avenues A & B

How about Sommer Browning & a collection of the most awesome kick ass poets?

The shiz strikes on Sunday, January 10th, at 6:30pm

I'll [Sommer Browning] be reading my new Eva Mendes poem alongside three kick-ass, completely intimidating poets, named Cindy King, Brenda Iijima & Noelle Kocot.

Kathryn TeBordo will be dancing to some of our poems.

Address: Zinc Bar, 82 West 3rd Street, between Thompson & Sullivan Streets

How about some gory Glory Hole Action?
Dear friends and revelers,

2010 is here at last! (Sucks to be you, 2009.) Come and celebrate the new year at the first EARSHOT event of '10 at Rose Live Music in Williamsburg, Bklyn on Friday, January 8th at 7:30pm!

You'll be treated to the poetic stylings of DAN HOY (co-author of Glory Hole | The Hot Tub, Basic Instincts and Outtakes) and JUSTIN LACOUR (author of The Providence Athenaeum)! They'll be joined by three MFA superstars: Jessica Madison (The New School), Mary Ellen Marks (Sarah Lawrence College) and Natalie Eilbert (Columbia University).

Join this all-star roster and guest host Peter Bogart Johnson for the evening—it's a lousy five bucks, which gets you a free drink! Happy New Year!

Your pal,
Nicole


EARSHOT!

Friday, January 8th @ 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Special Guest Host: Peter Bogart Johnson
$5 + one free drink

Featuring:

Dan Hoy (Glory Hole, Basic Instincts)
Justin Lacour (The Providence Athenaeum)
Jessica Madison (The New School)
Mary Ellen Marks (Sarah Lawrence College)
Natalie Eilbert (Columbia University)

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

Yesterday I woke up to shovel snow

There is snow in New York. Perfect reason for staying in bed and reading. Yesterday I trekked over to Bedstuy to catch a loft reading featuring Evan Commander, Sommer Browning and Matt Hart. Matt Hart read a new long poem which will be in his next book. The poem was pure bad-ass! Word is the next book will glow.

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What are you doing for the holidays? Traveling? Staying in? Writing novels? Making poems? Creating culinary delights? Do tell.

All Hallow's Eve

MATVEI YANKELEVICH
SOMMER BROWNING
JEREMY JAMES THOMPSON
7:05-10:05

Outpost Lounge 1014 Fulton St (Grand & Classon) Brooklyn, NY
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The Subterranean Homesick Blues Project


Friday, October 30, 2009 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Ding Dong Lounge 929 Columbus Avenue (between 105/106) New York, NY

Justin Taylor / Mark Bibbins / Ari Messer / Roddy Lumsden / Monica Youn / Dai George / Amy Lemmon / Jason Schneiderman / Timothy Donnelly / Brett Fletcher Lauer / Kathleen Ossip / Cheryl Burke / Douglas Martin / Melissa Broder / James Byrne / Jennifer L Knox / Sharon Mesmer / David Yezzi / Katy Lederer / Joshua Mehigan / Jeffrey McDaniel / Jeremy Schmall / Deborah Landau / Farrah Field / Josh Bell / Thaddeus Rutkowski / George Green / Anwyn Crawford / Adam Fitzgerald / Sasha Fletcher / Justin Boening / Ethan Hon

FREE

Hosted by Roddy Lumsden
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The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series
Friday, October 30, 2009,7:00pm - 9:00pm
Goodbye Blue Monday,1087 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY

Get your pre-Halloween on with Cara Benson, Elizabeth Bryant, Carla Drysdale, Brenda Iijima, Magus Magnus & Moez Surani

and special guest host Julian T. Brolaski!

Cara Benson edits Sous Rature. Her first full length book (made) is forthcoming from BookThug in 2010. Her chapbook Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation (BookThug) co-won the 2008 bpNichol Prize. Other chaps include He Writes (No Press), UP (Dusie Kollectiv), and Spell/ing ( ) Bound (ellectrique press) with Kai Fierle-Hedrick and Kathrin Schaeppi. Benson edited the interdisciplinary book Prediction forthcoming from Chain. She lives and writes in the analog world of upstate NY. Her online home is necessetics.

Elizabeth Bryant’s newest book, (nevertheless enjoyment, is forthcoming fall 2009 from Quale Press. Her writing appears in many print and online journals including Wheelhouse Magazine, Coconut, Dusie, Bombay Gin, Key Satch(el), Gerry Mulligan, and Intercapillary Space. She is the editor of CR79 Books, and the ongoing writing experiment Defeffable. She also co-curates the Bard Roving Reading Series.

Carla Drysdale was born in London, Ontario and was educated at Ryerson university in Toronto as well as Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Her poems have appeared in Canadian and US journals, including the Literary Review of Canada, Canadian Literature, the Fiddlehead, Global City Review, The Same and LIT. She has won several fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, where she collaborated with Pulitzer-prize winning composer David Del Tredici, who set her poem, ‘New Year’s Eve’ to music. She recently relocated from NYC to Geneva, Switzerland, where she works as a public radio journalist. Her first book of poems, Little Venus, is being published in October by Toronto’s Tightrope Books.

Brenda Iijima is the author of Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Books) and Around Sea (O Books). Two books are forthcoming in the near future: revv. you’ll—ution (Displaced Press) and If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press). She is currently researching all the women who were murdered in her hometown of North Adams, Massachusetts as well as writing an encyclopedia of animals used by humans as surrogates. She publishes chapbooks on Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.

Magus Magnus‘ Verb Sap came out from Narrow House of Baltimore in autumn of 2008. Pieces from this work also form the basis of an ongoing experimental musical collaboration with flutist Jennifer Lapple, titled “Verb Sap recitative.” Over the past year, M.’s online radio show on blogtalkradio, titled “MMm… Utterance” featured readings from Verb Sap, some earlier work, and from his upcoming book Imposter!: instances, regrets. M. reads regularly around the Baltimore-D.C. area, and his work has appeared in Viviparous Blenny, Shattered Wig Review, the ie Reader, and more; as director of Yockadot Poetics Theatre Project, he enjoys showcasing poets and performers dedicated to exploring the variety of ways text can be induced to leap off the page live. M. lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife Manya Magnus, and their two children, Hero (age 9), and Gryphon (about to turn 4).

Moez Surani’s poetry and short fiction have been published widely in Canada. He has served as a writer-in-residence for the Toronto Catholic District School Board and curator for the Strong Words Reading Series in Toronto. Among his awards is a 2008 Chalmers Arts Fellowship, which supported an extended research stint to India and East Africa. His debut collection of poems (September, 2009) is titled Reticent Bodies.

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Julian T. Brolaski is the author of the chapbooks Hellish Death Monsters (Spooky Press, 2001), Letters to Hank Williams (True West Press, 2003), The Daily Usonian (Atticus/Finch, 2004) and Madame Bovary’s Diary (Cy Press, 2005), Buck in a Corridor (flynpyntar, 2008) and the blog herm of warsaw. Xir first book gowanus atropolis is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2010. Brolaski lives in Brooklyn where xe writes poetry, serves as a Litmus Press editor, plays country music in The Low & the Lonesome (www.myspace.com/thelowandthelonesome), and curates Mongrel Vaudeville (http://mongrelvaudeville.blogspot.com).

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Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway
(corner of Dodworth St)
Brooklyn, NY 11221-3013
(718) 453-6343

DoomsDayYouNow!

Doomsday Film Festival & Symposium
Sunday, October 25, 2009
12:30pm - 2:00pm
DCTV
87 Lafayette St. (between Walker & White)
New York, NY

• Selections from The Animatrix | Shinichiro Watanabe & Mahiro Maeda, U.S., 2003 (feat. The Second Renaissance Parts 1 & 2, A Detective Story, Kid's Story)

Panelists:
• Bob Fingerman, author and comic artist
• Hilary Florido, comic artist
• Matt Hawkins, journalist
• Justin Taylor, author
• John Joseph Adams, editor of Wastelands, The Living Dead and Seeds of Change
• Jonathan Maberry, author of Patient Zero, They Bite and Doomwar

Readers:
• Jeremy Schmall, poet
• Sommer Browning, poet
• Emily Brandt, poet
• Alex Cuff, poet
• Martin Rock, poet

Limited Edition copies of The Apocalypse Anthology of Poetry edited by Sommer Browning will be available for sale from Flying Guillotine Press.


About the festival:
The 2009 Doomsday Film Festival explores our collective obsession with the Apocalypse in film, art, and culture.

From raptures, plagues, meteorites, nuclear holocausts, aliens, zombie attacks, ecological catastrophe, and cybernetic revolt to the 2012 doomsday predictions, the Festival will touch upon all possible permutations of our collective demise.

We'll be screening films from across the board, with works ranging from premieres to established classics to rediscovered gems. On the schedule for the 2009 Festival are nuclear fallout cartoons, early '60s atomic parables, '80s zombie punk, award-winning independent shorts, and much more.

The event will incorporate a panel-based symposium featuring authors, artists, and all manner of experts on the End of Days. We plan to tackle the Apocalypse in all its forms, and hope you'll join us for the ride!

http://www.doomsdayfilmfest.com
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A Canadian Invasion!

Nick Thran (Insomniac Press)
J. Mae Barizo (Fields Press)
Moez Surani (Wolsak & Wynn)


8PM, Oct. 26
Unnameable Books
Neighborhood: Prospect Heights
600 Vanderbilt Ave
(between Dean St & St Marks Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11238
(718) 789-1534


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Join us for a wonderful reading by Myung Mi Kim (author of Penury, Commons, DURA, The Bounty, and Under Flag), Jena Osman (author of Essay In Asterisks and The Character) and Tony Tost (author of Complex Sleep and Invisible Bride). We are also celebrating the publication of Myung Mi Kim's new book, Penury.



MONDAY, OCT 26, 2009 7:00 PM
Triptych Readings
(pairing established and emerging writers)

MYUNG MI KIM
JENA OSMAN
TONY TOST

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:

Myung Mi Kim is Professor of English and a core faculty member of the Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the author of Penury, Commons, DURA, The Bounty, and Under Flag. Kim was awarded The Multicultural Publisher's Exchange Award of Merit for Under Flag. She also received a fellowship at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, awards from the Fund for Poetry, a Daesan Foundation Translation Grant, and the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity. The anthologies in which her work has appeared include American Poets in the 21st century: The New American Poetics, Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, Premonitions: Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women.

Jena Osman's books of poetry include The Character, An Essay in Asterisks, and the forthcoming The Network (winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series). An excerpt from "Public Figures," her continuing project on statuary in Philadelphia, can be found in the online journal HOW2 (vol. 3, issue 1). She co-edits the ChainLinks book series with Juliana Spahr and teaches in the Creative Writing program at Temple University.

Tony Tost is the author of Complex Sleep (Iowa 2007), World Jelly (Effing 2005) and Invisible Bride (LSU 2004). He is currently writing a book on Johnny Cash's first American Recordings album for Continuum's 33 1/3 series of books on classic record albums, and is also completing a new poetry manuscript called Consequence. Poems and prose have recently appeared in Hambone, Open Letter, Mandorla, Talisman, American Literature, Colorado Review and Effing Magazine, and are forthcoming in Cannibal, Ping Pong and The Yale Anthology of Younger Poets. He lives with Leigh and Simon in Durham, NC, where he is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Duke University.