The Equalizer

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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.

A Sampling of September Readings

September, 2010 Readings

9/2/10, 6:30 p.m.
Poetry from the Rooftops
The Arsenal Building, Central Park (enter at 64th Street & 5th Ave)
New York, NY
Dottie Lasky, Matt Hart and Catie Rosemurgy


EARSHOT!

Friday, September 3rd @ 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg
$5 + one free drink

Featuring:

Nate Pritts (The Wonderfull Yeare, Honorary Astronaut)
Matt Hart (You Are Mist, Wolf Face)
Brit Blalock (New York University)
Montana Ray (Columbia University)
Sean Kevin Campbell (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/.


September 4 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Heliopolis>>>Sun City Gallery
154 Huron Street
Brooklyn, NY


Please join us for an electrically spectacular evening of poems, art, and friendship featuring:

Matt Hart
Nate Pritts
Mary Donelly

*9/5/10, 6:30 p.m.
Cousins Reading Series
Abe's Bar
302 Wickenden Street
Providence, RI
Dottie Lasky Brian Foley, Emily Pettit, and Janaka Stucky
* Not in NYC/BK

9/10/10, 7:30 p.m.
Supermachine Issue #2 Launch Party
The Schoolhouse
330 Ellery St. #3 (between Broadway and Beaver)
Brooklyn, NY
Dottie Lasky, Macgregor Card, Chris Cheney, Lonely Christopher, Corina Copp, Jon Cotner, Joanna Penn Cooper, Anne Cecelia Holmes, Lauren Ireland, Simone Kearney, Paul Legault, Emily Pettit, Christie Ann Reynolds, Matvei Yankelevich, Matthew Yeager. With Music by FORMA and Haussmann.



September 17 · 7:30pm - 9:30pm
177 Livingston Street
Brooklyn, NY
Come celebrate the release of Telephone's inaugural issue! Have a drink, buy a copy, say hello, translate something!

Featuring Uljana Wolf, with readings by: Mary Jo Bang, Priscilla Becker, Susan Bernofsky, Robert Fitterman, John Gallaher, Christian Hawkey, Eugene Ostashevsky & more!

Four interviews & a journal for you

Read an interview with Nate (Pritts) & Matt (Hart) about their collab chapbook (that I keep recommending) here.

How about an interview with Ana Božičević? Click here.

How about the awesome Amy?

& don't forget about Dottie!

The new issue of Action Yes!

Summer Hits!

My Summer reading recommendations here! Thanks Reb!

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

It's Only Rock n Roll, But We Like It Anyway

Two new chapbooks, one from Eric Baus and the other a collaboration between Matt Hart & Nate Pritts.

Eric Baus' chapbook, Bee-Stung Aviary, is hand-sewn and has a screen-printed cover. The thick board and black ink remind me of old Geraldine Fibber's 7-inches & for some reason the Bee has GBV's Bee-thousand buzzing in my head. The book contains three sections: False Glass, Bee-Stung Aviary and Ohm Opera.

MY SOLO WAS ALSO

The intensity of elephants should continue
beyond the title and merge back into the figure
of mud. This lion is, therefore, like the lion
following a marionette. Here, their passage is
called brother-in-law, and elsewhere, the hand
that distinguishes between rains: My solo was
also, or, The person that that meant. Each
finger implies another flame.

OHM OPERA

What unvoiced signal does it wake, a
rendering vacuum or rhetorical fold? Out
among the twinned digits, newly invented
medicine, in the shape of dizziness, dropped
across lips. Lest night retell its s, clouds elide
into dots. Painting the king painting the plains
is to feel the sea in sod. His song ends too, an
outbound breath. What is the name of this
gesture? How to read its residues?

The chapbook is limited to 100 and you can pick it up from Further Adventures.

Recently, Matt Hart & Nate Pritts embarked on a reading tour and made a chapbook of collaborative poems. The book is called, Feelings, Assoc. and the back cover list tour dates, or er, reading dates. This collab seamlessly captures Hart's buzz-saw riffs & Pritts' sonic tightness. This book feels punk, d.i.y. like blood guts & lots of love.

ICICLES GLINTING IN SUNLIGHT

Such impossible instructions! But our bodies try harder,
hollow & shivering. There are three states

blocking this me from that one-- sparkly solid in near winter,
O impenetrable ineffable bloom! My fiery face melting

magma tears from the volcanoes chorusing, glacial
mist in this tectonic shifting. This continental drift.

The landscape will change. I know it will.
There's a dream to believe in about not falling down.

I can hold comets in my hand, grab each star out of
your eyes & make new pictures by connecting

those SOS dots & dashes, but the only thing
I can't do is something I haven't done.

Push for one last mile. Don't let the sun pass through.
Hold that light. Hold that light & today I can

fly from November to the heart of winter.
I'm clear empty & dripping. I wish I could feel more

better. I want to November it up. I want to
season the seasons. I want to fall harder.

I want to hang from the rooftops or dangle
from the bumper when you back out of the driveway

& head straight into beatitude. The brightest
words I can think of are grey & lonely.

That reverberating racket, belligerent & battering.
Icicles glinting in sunlight.

You can prolly contact Matt Hart or Nate Pritts to pick up a copy (if there are any left). Here's Gina Meyers talking about Matt Hart.

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.

2 More for You

The interview with Paul Violi in this journal is pretty good stuff!

12th Street Reading

Faculty readers Shelley Jackson, Zia Jaffery, Paul Violi and Riggio students read from the magazine

Tuesday, May 13, 7:00 pm

The Union Square Barnes and Noble, 33 East 17th Street

FREE

Please come celebrate with the editors and contributors of 12th Street!

You've waited 58 years for this. . . The New School Writing Program is proud to announce of re-launch of The New School undergraduate literary magazine 12th Street, last published in 1950. The inside cover includes a work of art from the Spring 1949 issue but otherwise everything is new work by students currently enrolled in The Riggio Honors Program: Writing and Democracy. 12th Street is made possible by the Leonard and Louise Riggio Writing and Democracy Initiative at The New School and will be nationally distributed by Barnes and Noble.

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There's no shortage of Matt Hart love in NYC/Brooklyn and I especially love the poem he has in Cutbank Issue 68. This is also a reading series that I don't get to attend nearly enough, but alas I'll be at a job fair tomorrow evening then going to see my friend play a little music so no BK travels for me but you should go and tell me all about it, okay?

Wed. May 14th

Matt Hart, with Amanda Nadelberg and Christopher Martin, 8PM,

Pacific Standard Bar , 82 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217