So Much To See & Do Don't Bother Shaking A Stick Or Twitching A Tweet

New ish of Spooky Boyfriend featuring a plethora of great poets such as Dan Magers and Nicole Steinberg.

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Always lava hot is Sous Rature so check out the new ish here

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I went to a panel yesterday on Hip-Hop, Pop, and Poetry for the Brooklyn Bookfest and wrote up a 'lil something for it, read that here

There's also a snapshot on G.C. Waldrep here

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How about a new e-chapbook collaboration from Sawako Nakayasu and Jen Hofer. What? Yep completely ridiculous in the way you love it most. Read it here.

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How 'bout the fact that Dan Magers & I are both reading on Saturday? Sadly at separate locations. Here's the info on Dan's reading. I'll post the flyer for mine on Wednesday.

Dear Gmail,

Please tell my friends that I am reading on Saturday at 2pm with Flarf powerhouse Katie Degentesh. I hear she's reading some new stuff, and I completely expect it to be amazing. Tell them that if they are not too hung over, or walking in the park with their loved ones, or making $$$, or staring into the void of your peeling bedroom walls, to please stop by and hear some Poetry.

Your #1 fan,

DPM


September 19: Katie Degentesh and Dan Magers

Katie Degentesh is the author of The Anger Scale. She lives in New York City.

Dan Magers is the co-editor of Sink Review (sinkreview.org). His chapbook Exploitation Poems was published in 2007, and he's had poems published in the tiny, Red China Magazine, and Thirteen Myna Birds.

2 PM on Saturday, September 12th at the Grand Central Branch of the New York Public Library: 135 East 46th Street, in the community/program room, which is on the upper level. Elevator available. Phone: (212) 621-0670. blog:http://grandcentralpoets.blogspot.com

Sous Boog, Stark Weather comes to Williamsburg, and Poets & Writers do Brooklyn

Thanks to J. Li who lent me her old macbook, I'm temporarily back in action. & oh what action we have! The new ish of Sous Rature is up and it contains work by two of my favorite writers & good (frequently virtual) friends: Brooklyn Copeland & Sawako Nakayasu. There's lots of other great writers too, I just haven't had the chance to read them yet.

Boog City 3 is here.
So far I've like Mathias (Svalina) Amy (Lawless), David (Sewell), and Geoffrey (Olsen) but I've only had a chance to glance at it.

The first Earshot of 09 is going down on Friday & Starkweather's the jam!

EARSHOT!

Join us at our new venue, ROSE LIVE MUSIC, located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!

*Friday, January 9th at 8 PM*
Admission: $5 + FREE DRINK!

Hosted by Nicole Steinberg

Featuring:
Ciaran Berry (The Sphere of Birds)
Sampson Starkweather (City of Moths)
Ann Podracky (Queens College)
Bianca Stone (New York University)
Carter Edwards (The New School)

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.com for more information or e-mail Nicole Steinberg at earshotnyc@gmail.com.

& how about a little Poets & Writers function on Monday? I might actually see both fiction & poet friends under one roof.

DATE: Monday, January 12

TIME: 6:30 -8:30 pm

LOCATION: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St., DUMBO, Brooklyn

Join us to celebrate the launch of the January/February Inspiration issue of Poets & Writers Magazine (now printed on all-recycled paper) at the all-green Galapagos Art Space and Bar.

Enjoy a night of music, art, and poetry, featuring the poets and writers, agents and editors, and literary magazines and small presses featured in the magazine --poets Mike Cirelli, Matthea Harvey, and Patricia Smith; literary agents Jeff Kleinman, Julie Barer, Renee Zuckerbrot, and Daniel Lazar; A Public Space and Slice Magazine.

This is a 21+ event with a cash bar. Admission is free.

Nearby Trains: F, A, 2/3 - first stop in Brooklyn for each.
For more detailed directions, please click here.

Made In Hong Kong To Here Have Some Poetry

Unless, I'm expecting a Netflix, checking the mail tends to be a dreaded exercise especially since it always contains credit card or student loan bills so yesterday provided a nice surprise to what was shaping up to be a lackluster day. My friend, Nicole Wong, sent me a copy of Hong Kong's Muse, which contains her story written in English (& translated into the Chinese by Chor Koon Fai.) Nicole emailed me the story a while back, but nothing compares to having a copy of your friend in print, don't you agree? I guess that's not a very green thing to say, but blame it on Whitman 'cause ever since reading him I've wanted a shelf lined with publications of my friends and of course, myself.

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But to up my greeness check out these links for poetry. A new ish of diode, a new online journal, and an older one that I don't think I've mentioned before.

http://diodepoetry.com/

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